Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Clickbank Affiliate Program

How about that for irony, selling a clickbank product on a make money with clickbank blog :) Now you know I'm the real clickbank affiliate ;)

Clickbank Toolkit

No seriously this clickbank toolkit is the real thing, go check it out! And you know what, you don't even have to use my hop (see clickbank terminology) to buy the toolkit. As you should know by now when you have read the rest of this blog I make a percentage when I sell this product using this clickbank hop link. What you should do is become the clickbank affiliate yourself! When you buy anything from clickbank yourself, you should buy it using you own link. This will save you a lot of money!

Looking at the Clickbank toolkit, normally it is $47, but as a clickbank affiliate you get 55% of your sale for this product, so you only pay like $22 which is pretty cheap right! So go check it out, and if there are any other product you need yourself from clickbank, be sure to buy them using your own clickbank hop link.

Make money as a Clickbank affiliate Video

It's always good to read or view about how others are making money as a clickbank affiliate, check this nice clickbank video:

Friday, February 27, 2009

Clickbank Terminology

Ok, so what do all the terms mean in a Clickbank add? An example:

1) Rocket Piano - Learn Piano Today! Conversion Rate Is High And Refund Rate Has Been Below 5% For 4years. Secret Bonus To Affiliates Is Our Commissioned $200 Product With Up-Sells. Join Our Affiliate Area And Msn Me Today For More Information, Email Through Your Tracking Codes!
$/sale: $26.72 | Future $: - | Total $/sale: $26.72 | %/sale: 75.0% | %refd: 81.0% | grav: 65.68
view pitch page | create hoplink

So we got the terms: dollars per sale, percent per sale, percent referred and gravity. Let's look at these Clickbank terms one at the time.

1. Dollars per sale shows you how much you will make on each sale. In the perfect scenario you want products that pay the most commission. This counts especially when you try to sell the product using Adsense, since this will cost you money. But it is not always the most important factor.

2. Percent per sale is the percent of the sale that the affiliate wil get. 50% is the least commission you want for a sale. Some products pay as much as 75% or more. However competition is high on these products.

3. Percent referred is the percentage of all sales that come from affiliates. This is a very important figure and usually coincides with the next stat. Ideally, you don't want to compete with the products where 85 to 90% of the sales are coming from affiliates.

4. Gravity probably the most important figure. This figure tells you roughly how many affiliates are promoting this product. So if you are looking for products with little competions, grafity shouldn't be higher than 20!

So pretty much the products we are looking for:

Dollars per sale - $20 or more
Percent per sale - 50% or more
Percent referred - Less than 70%
Gravity - Under 20

Clickbank the Basics

Probably most of you already have some experience and checked out Clickbank before reaching this blog, but for everybody who is completely new to Clickbank and becoming a Clickbank Affiliate here is the background information on clickbank:

What is Clickbank?

Clickbank acts as an e-commerce systems. Clickbank is there for people who want to sell their products on the internet. For example, if you right an e-book on some niche, you can use the Clickbank platform to sell this ebook. Clickbank handles the payment processing of the sell for a small percentage.

The best part of selling products using Clickbank is its famous affiliate system. The Clickbank affiliate systems automates the full handling and payment of affiliates. So if you sell products only, Clicbank takes care of all your affiliates, the payouts and provides great statistics.

How to make money using Clickbank?

Two ways, you either have a product you want to sell or you promote other peoples product acting as an affiliate. On this blog we are going to talk about the latter, promoting products. You can for example use one of your successful blogs or websites to promote products. For example if I would have a blog about learning to play the Piano I could choose a product from Clickbank closely related to this subject. So the first step is finding a good product to promote:

Visit the Clickbank marketplace and search for “Piano”, the first result popping up is:

1) Rocket Piano - Learn Piano Today! Conversion Rate Is High And Refund Rate Has Been Below 5% For 4years. Secret Bonus To Affiliates Is Our Commissioned $200 Product With Up-Sells. Join Our Affiliate Area And Msn Me Today For More Information, Email Through Your Tracking Codes!
$/sale: $26.72 | Future $: - | Total $/sale: $26.72 | %/sale: 75.0% | %refd: 81.0% | grav: 65.68
view pitch page | create hoplink

This could be definitely something the readers of the piano blog could be interested in! And clickbank offers an excellent commission rate on this offer (75%). We’ll be discussing all the details of this add later on (the sale, refd, gravity, etc.)

So what you do is click on the create hoplink, enter in your Clickbank username and a ‘pitch page’ is created for you!
For the piano page it would look like this:

http://username.rpiano.hop.clickbank.net/

Where username is our username and ‘rpiano’ is the sellers username.

So now we got our pitch page. If we sell any product from somebody at this page we will get our commission, so now is the question how are we going to promote this pitch page?

How can I promote my affiliate link?


This is the most important part. What good is an affiliate pitch page when nobody visits this page!
A good idea is to buy the product (most of the time an e-book) yourself so you can right an honest review about the product. Don’t just copy reviews from the net, google will know and you will not get any traffic!

So you right a good review and put it on the internet. Now there are two ways to generate traffic. Either good SEO (search engine optimization) which will get you high in the google rankings or by using Adwords.
Both ways have their positives and their negatives. Adwords off course will cost you money, but it will give you instant traffic (and really targeted traffic!). SEO is free and if you do it right can give you massive traffic! Which is better? There is no better, it will all depend on the product your selling. We will be discussing these two methods a lot on the blog!
So be sure to visit How to make money with Clickbank often

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Make Money as a Clickbank Affiliate

So you are interested in making money as a Clickbank Affiliate? First of all, is it possible? Yes, you can defenitly make a fortune as promoting the products Clickbank offers to its affiliates. But beware, you are not the only one trying to make money with clickbank. Over 100.000 other affiliates are trying aswell, and only a small part of them actually make big cash.

So how am I going to make money with Clickbank you ask? Just read the blog and we will provide you detailed information on becoming a successful Clickbank Affiliate!