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Affiliate Marketing With Clickbank
By admin | November 1, 2008
Yesterday I told you I made my first sale. Done another today! Onwards and upwards..
I have been looking at products through Clickbank. What should you look for? Well once you get onto Clickbank and get a member ID as I suggested yesterday, take some time to scroll through and familiarise yourself with the site. I showed you what I look for and gave you the info I have gleaned from various sources I have paid for.
If you follow the sort of process I showed you yesterday, you should be able to narrow down your search for products and I think you should decide which ones you might feel comfortable promoting. There are some products in Clickbank that I wouldn’t promote and additionally Google doesnt allow some in adwords, so be careful about that and check Google Adwords policies before you start.
Have a closer look at your potential product. Click on the “view pitch page” link. Is the page nice and clean, easy on the eye, would it appeal to you as a potential buyer?
Click on the affiliates link. What exactly are you being offered as an affiliate?Will you be provided with any sort of advertising help in the form of banners, articles content,keywords and any form of tracking? Is this an “affiliate friendly “product?
Does it provide conversion tracking? I havent got to grips with this yet (but I will!) I know that it is extremely important to be able to track which keywords are converting and if you go with a merchant that provides this, you will find it much easier in the long term. I believe that a considerable number don’t but if they do take it as a bonus even if like me, you arent sure how it works.
So in summary, this is what I have found,and this isn’t just my experience, its come from a number of research tools both paid and unpaid that I have used:
- Has the product a high ranking both in gravity and high %refd?
- Is there a high percentage payout ie higher than 60%
- is the sales page one taht would appeal to you as buyer in this market.Is it clean and uncluttered?
- Is the merchant affilaite friendly? Will you be getting tools and marketing help with keywords,content etc?
- Is there any form of conversion tracking?
These are all important considerations, but you also have to consider whether you are going to be able to promote this through your existing blog if you have one or start another (as I did). The blog has to be relevant to the product if you intend to market through a blog or webspace. It is possible to link directly to the merchants page but it seems that the market is moving away from that as a way of doing it, mainly because of how Google treats that sort of link and moving more to having dedicated pages.
There is a lot of work involved in hunting down the right clickbank product and making it work.I will keep you posted on my results. Off to check adwords again now!
Til next time
jane
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