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Clickbank converts?

by richsoon
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I am a newbie (2 months young) in CPA. I've been somewhat successful with CPA offers from maxbounty, azoogle, and some others, but can't seem to crack Clickbank. Do Clickbank product landing pages still convert?

I have tried a number of products in the health and diet niches and had no success. I have received many hops (pageviews) and 1 order form impression, but no orders. Is there something that I'm not getting? Any advice would be helpful.
#clickbank #converts
  • Profile picture of the author richsoon
    @Alexa.

    Thanks for the advice. In total, I have 700 clicks but in different products so I should probably wait a bit more before making an inference. How did you come up with the 400/500 click number?
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    • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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      • Profile picture of the author reapr
        This sounds about right for a typical product but find a real winner that fits a desperate group then you can have numbers down around 1 in 15-20.

        Originally Posted by Alexa Smith View Post

        By working out the normal variance allowing for an average 1% conversion-to-sale rate. Just using round numbers, but realistic ones, for most people, most of the time, I think. You might expect your traffic-to-Clickbank to be converted into a sale at an average rate of 1% - if it's a reasonably good, professionally written sales page - but with a lot of variance ("standard deviation"). The first 150-200 visits might not include a sale at all; the next 150-200 might include 3 or 4, and so on. When you're dealing with low "strike-rates" the variability is pretty high, so I think you'd want 500, really, before starting to draw any conclusions.

        If a sales page is converting your traffic at the average rate of 1%, you could quite easily have 250 hops without a sale. 500 without a sale would be a little more concerning, though.

        (I'm not suggesting you can't do better than 1%, with some Clickbank products: you certainly can, but it depends on how/where you're getting and qualifying and nurturing and pre-selling the traffic.)



        I'm afraid they really didn't. Many people feel that their overall "Nothing-is-ever-our-fault-or-our-problem" attitude toward customer service fundamentally predicates against their improving their act. :rolleyes:
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  • Profile picture of the author Kenster
    Clickbank is a funny beast. I am also not very confident in clickbanks trackign system, but I havent actively pursued clickbank campaigns in a while, so maybe they got their act together.

    Even more so than CPA, there are a boatload of crappy products that don't convert on CB and being that it is on a CPS basis, the conversion rate is naturally lower anyway.

    My personal opinion....stick with CPA unless there is a very specific niche where you can't find a matching CPA offer and only a clickbank product.

    My opinion, but I'm just not a huge fan of clickbank from the affiliate side.
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  • Profile picture of the author WilliamL
    Clickbank converts well if you choose the right product and the right traffic. As I have taught in my WSO, the secret are products for mass. But, yes, if you have no luck with Clickbank you can create your own products or try CPA instead. I think that the hard thing about ClickBank is the work you put into building blogs around a product or writing lots of articles- but I chose a different approach because I had no luck with the "normal" Clickbank promotion strategies.

    Cheers,
    William
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  • Profile picture of the author rvrabel2002
    Im gonna agree with Kenster on this one, clickbank has never converted for me, whether it be a sales page, a review page, a direct link, etc.

    I'm not saying it doesnt convert, but from what ive seen, the conversion rates are horrible and thats being nice. Most CPA offers, even the crap ones, have a conversion rate of 1%.

    This is a complete biased opinion, simply because i never had success with it.
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  • Profile picture of the author gabibeowulf
    Some offers on CB convert better than others.

    There is one big misconception that most affiliates trying out the
    CB waters have .. and that is: "if it has high gravity it converts
    great". This is simply not true. Many of the high gravity have an
    extremely low conversion if you will direct link to them.

    Solution #1. (better conversion rates) Professional looking review page

    Solution #2. (best conversion rates) Build an email list and learn to market
    to your list properly.

    Solution #3. Try less competitive CB markets? ... going after weight loss,
    hemorrhoids, acne, make money online or forex products, just because
    they have a high gravity will not work very well unless you have a good
    competitive angle in promoting them.

    Gabriel
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  • Profile picture of the author manybl
    make sure your selling an affiliate product that is absolutely related to the content of your site. This way the people clicking your affiliate links will be extremely targetted traffic and willhave a high incentive to buy the affiliate product.
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    • Profile picture of the author richsoon
      Thanks for all the replies. Another quick question, does a successful squeeze page or landing page for a clickbank offer look different from that of a cpa offer?
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  • Profile picture of the author CindyLathim
    I ALWAYS use landing pages. This is how I get leads.
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