My traffic from Ezinearticles is not converting.

Hi J

You will get a higher conversion with a lander / squeeze / optin on the fly / slider page by far...

Set your auto responders up BEFORE you do anything else, you can purchase a series / succession of 48 / 12 etc etc emails in any niche, spin them to make them unique to you and pop them into an auto responder (paid online or desktop software) you will also get a lot more recurring sales using auto responders as you are giving your vistors / buyers something more for nothing and can add value links / downloads when you want

That's a good point, and definitely something to watch out for...

Also, make sure that you click the links in the newletter to make sure that they don't hijack the referal id, and that the hop is still counted to your account...

You don't have to write the autoresponder emails, you can use good quality PLR article chunks as weekly tips etc to send them.

Since it's a private mailing list you can copy paste short chunks giving some tips and info.

But if I can't get a single sale with a good review landing page then isn't the traffic pretty bad then?

And I doubt many sign up for the newsletter on the product page because they're taken to a video sales page with no opt-in form.

The fact that that search engine traffic has come to you via an article at EZA doesn't in itself make it any more, or less, targeted than any other sort of traffic. What determines how targeted it is is mostly what took it TO EZA in the first place. And that would be, largely, your keyword research, I think?

I'd be happy to take a look at the articles and the site, if you think my opinion might help you; but please note that this isn't one of my niches at all, and you may well therefore get much better offers than this one!

Personally I get a lower conversion-rate with a squeeze page (for all the niches in which I've actually tested, which I almost don't do any more now), and therefore have my opt-in on (every page of) my review site and don't do a squeeze page per se. Many people have the opposite experience from me, I know. (This is about my articles and who my readers are and may not be relevant to you at all.)

But clearly you have to get their emails (the ones who will opt in), especially in a niche as competitive as that, because it's what all your competitors are doing, and you're certainly leaving most of the money on the table without doing that.

A very few, possibly ... but I'll be very surprised, myself, if you can get much more without building a list, for a niche like that.

Few people buy products like that at their first visit to the sales page. Your job as an affiliate is (among other things) to encourage them to return to it. You can't do that without their email addresses.

Remember that most people who find one of your articles at EZA have seen the sales page before. It would be lovely to imagine that they're all looking in Google, finding your article, finding your site and going to Clickbank (or wherever) for the very first time, but this isn't realistic at all, I'm afraid. Especially - dare I say it again? - in a niche like that.

This was my first thought - you (the OP) are targeting two of the most popular products on Clickbank, and two with very high gravity scores. This means that there are a ton of affiliates competing in the space, some making a sale or two, some making more. Bottom line, there's a lot of competition out there, and more than a few will be marketing with articles.

Edit: And even the affiliates who have given up still have their articles floating around out there, and likely more than a few landing pages with "reviews" on them...

You said you are getting ~30 visitors per day. How many hops are you getting from your reviews? If they ain't clickin' your links, you ain't gettin' paid, right?

You might think you have your reviews optimized, but your opinion doesn't count.

If you are getting hops to the sales pages, the problem is likely that either the sales page isn't converting for you or the traffic you send has seen it before.

One of the cons to promoting "popular" products is that, unless you have a unique spin or angle to put on things, you blend into the crowd and visitors look at your carefully-crafted review and say to themselves, "oh, that again..."