The Best Route to Affiliate Marketing

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I've been planning to get my feet wet with Affiliate Marketing via SEO & PPC. Have been doing it via FB Ads successfully so I came up with three possible routes:

1. A Generic website (e.g. branded as a marketing company e.g. stone bridge marketing) for landing pages of clickbank products + CPA offers + JVZOO + WSO affiliate offers of different niches.
Promotion: PPC, FB Ads

2. Niche specific website (specifically about health) where I may post quality health related content and promote clickbank etc health books contextually.
Promotion: mainly SEO (being Niche specific will help me in Ranking), PPC (rarely)


What do you guys suggest? What are the pros-cons of both of these routes?
#affiliate #affiliate marketing #clickbank #cpa #marketing #ppc #route #seo
  • Profile picture of the author QueenMelanie
    No. 1 sounds more exciting, just my opinion though!
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  • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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    Originally Posted by irfanmaverick View Post

    1. A Generic website (e.g. branded as a marketing company e.g. stone bridge marketing) for landing pages of clickbank products + CPA offers + JVZOO + WSO affiliate offers of different niches.
    Promotion: PPC, FB Ads
    I think this one's a terribly bad idea. Targeting is everything. Landing pages don't sell ClickBank products (to any extent worth talking about).

    If you're planning to sell ClickBank-type products, I would start here, with the basics/essentials not accounted for in the suggestion above (this post was made back in 2012 but its content is even more true and applicable in 2015 than it was in 2012!): http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post7110523

    Originally Posted by irfanmaverick View Post

    2. Niche specific website
    In principle, a far better idea.

    Originally Posted by irfanmaverick View Post

    specifically about health
    Health is not a niche. It's a market, and one of the biggest markets in the world. Very important to understand this, and what it signifies!

    http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post8561081

    Originally Posted by irfanmaverick View Post

    where I may post quality health related content and promote clickbank etc health books contextually.
    You won't sell them that way. Respectfully, you're missing the entire point of "what makes people buy ClickBank-type products". The post linked-to above (the first link) will help you, as a starting-point, and of course beyond that, you also have a long learning-curve ahead of you.

    Originally Posted by irfanmaverick View Post

    Promotion: mainly SEO
    A terrible plan. Sorry! Almost nothing can stack the deck against you as much as relying on search engine traffic, for the sale of ClickBank-type products.

    I always suggest to aspiring affiliate marketers that they shouldn't put time and effort into trying to attract SEO traffic, for two main reasons: first, it's very precarious and makes your business Google-dependent, and any business that's Google-dependent is no more than one algorithm-change away from a potential accident (or even a potential disaster), as so many Warriors have been finding out over the last year or two, some of them to their very great cost; secondly, for me, search engine traffic, in every single one of my niches, has been uniformly the worst-converting traffic out of everything I've ever tried - search engine visitors to all my websites typically stay the least time, view the fewest pages, opt in the least often and actually buy anything by far the least often. I admit I do get tons of search engine traffic to all my main sites (because high rankings for multiple keywords happen to be a minor side-benefit of the main targeted traffic-generation method I use) but I'd hate to have to make a living just from that traffic. If you have a good look round the forum, you'll also see plenty of other Warriors making exactly this point.

    Originally Posted by irfanmaverick View Post

    What do you guys suggest? What are the pros-cons of both of these routes?
    Neither will produce sales for you (worth talking about). There are good and valid and reliable reasons for my saying this, and they're reasons that are going to apply to you just like they apply to all the rest of us.

    Again, I would start here, reading very carefully, following the links, and approaching the subject from the perspective of "A Big Strategic Rethink About The Basics".

    Good luck!

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  • Profile picture of the author online only
    I've been doing affiliate marketing since 2009. I've tried promoting clickbank products too, not anymore however.

    First off, you need to know couple of things. PPC is not cheap and has a huge learning curve. So if you don't have more than $5k to "burn" - it's not a best idea to jump into.

    Furthermore, people don't just "buy" things. Sure, you can write reviews about X products on Clickbank, but we both know that they are pretty bad. Instead, you should be giving people advice on something that fixes their problems. You should give help and solutions.

    About SEO - it's really hard without a great content. People just don't tend to link to your affiliate site. And cheap seo and spammy links don't work anymore, unfortunately.

    If I were you, I'd focus on ONE website, ONE affiliate product and on SEO. To get links, produce awesome content and do some outreach to webmasters in similar niche to yours. Read legit SEO blogs. There's no loopholes to get great rankings, but if you do things right from the beginning, there are chances that your site will start to make some money.
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  • Profile picture of the author positivegirl
    Hi, in my opinion the easier way to make aff. commissions is having a list of buyers in your niche.
    it is a good strategy to choose buyer traffic, instead of freebies seekers.. so you can also add bonuses to upcoming launches (after agreeing with the product owner) so.. you get buyers into your list without creating a product.
    Sure.. this technique as well as every IM TECHNIQUE needs perseverance and not give up in front of some: 'no, thank you' answers... and obviously, if you start a relationship before with the product owner it will be easier to get more people to say yes..

    if you do this every day you'll get more buyers in your list and will make more money on daily basis
    Hope that helps
    Jany Luz Posada
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