Worst Clickbank Product Conversions

If I haven't made a sale from 800 hops. Not that these products are bad, they are just not worth my time (no offence to anyone, this is just my opinion).

Usually in the IM niche, I never run into products like this. But once I was working hard to promote a tinnitus product and its conversions were reeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaallllllllllllllyyyyyyyyyyyy low. I'm talking 1:3200.

I can sell on 55 hops.

Regards,
Mozesteven

It depends on how you are promoting the product - I've done 1000+ hops with no sales with PPC and direct linking.

I've also done sales in less than 50 hops sending traffic to a 1 page pre-sell site.

Thanks guys, I really appreciate the input. This is the first time I've put a mass amount of effort into promoting a ClickBank product. After 100 hops and only 3 order form impressions, I started getting a bit concerned. All traffic is organic so I guess I have to just sit back and wait. Still have a lot of traffic generation work left to do though.

The "low conversion rate" can surely have multiple related factors. For one, many high-end expert marketers are now suggesting that Clickbank is only good for "info" material, whereas, in the REAL world, consumers prefer to have something that they can "hold-in-hand."

Meaning, informational e-books, or even online videos about how to do this, or how to do that, still fall into the "intellectual properties" category. Thus, these are not the types of products that consumers can feel, touch, or taste.

Saying that, the problem with low conversion may not be due to some fault of yours, but to the actual Clickbank marketplace itself. On another note, one of the importantly related factors that affect affiliate product conversion rates is the "sales copy" and / or the specific "landing pages" to which your sales copy directs the consumer.

Needless to say, your sales copy has to have essentially EVERY element of the "Attention-Interest-Desire-Action" principle extremely well covered. Have you compared the text copy you write to that of other high-end competitors?

Sometimes, even minor changes in the anchor text, heading text, or even the "direction" or "perspective" of your handwritten content copy can make a HUGE difference to the person who is reading it.

Last but not least, here is a small tip that can help you in a big way...

Look at some of the already hottest-selling products online, find one that gives you goose-bumps, and then write a sales letter about that product, almost DIRECTLY from the product description, using your own words, and supported by solid scientific fact, of course.

The advantage of doing this is that, unlike many affiliates who make the serious mistake of writing content FIRST and then trying to find a PRODUCT that fits what they have written... you will be writing a sales page which ALREADY relates in a highly supportive way to the product you are about to introduce to your consumers.

Can you see the gist of all the above? Please write back and let me know whether you are finding some helpful tips in this reply, okay?

Thanks,

K e n

It's tough to define an average when sending people to a presale page, as the presale page itself effectively doubles the variables when measuring conversions and the overall effectiveness of your campaign.

The fact that you're getting people to the products sales page is a good sign though, it means you're not turning people away. What's the click through rate of your presale page, are there discrepancies in what you're saying about the product and what it's sale page says, etc..?

A lot more depends on your ability to presell, assuming the product's sales page is effective, what you do on the salespage can either greatly benefit or harm your sales.

My Queen,

Just slightly off-topic, but not really.

I got a video from Trey Smith last summer, who tested every product in the Clickbank marketplace (12,000 +) to see which ones were the most profitable. I was surprised at some of the results, and while this is probably not a definitive list, it does uncover some pretty interesting and under-the-radar niches.

Here are the url's for the Top 50 most profitable CB products:

mobilemonopoly.com
paidsurveysandmore.org
perfectoptimizer5.com
satellitedirect.com
driverrobot.com
theguymagnet.com
gov-resources.com
jumpmanual.com
farmvilleperfect.com
mysolarplans.com
govregistry.us
penisadvantage.com
myshedplans.com
dudeihatemyjob.com
quickprofitformula.com
moviescapital.com
registrywinner.com
rigworker.com
satellitetvtopc.com
carauctioninc.com
simpleferretcare.com
reversemobile.com
model-train-help.com
preejaculation.com
blastyourbench.com
regeasycleaner.com
staminatrainter.com
international-incomes.com
learnhorseriding.com
nubunwowguide.com
moleswartsremoval.com
watchlivefootballtv.com
magnets4energy.com
shoksguide.com
apartmentbuildingcashflow.com
mealplansformoms.com
ps3lightsfix.com
car-auction.com
infoproductkiller.com
model-train-help.com
secretgoldguide.com
500scrapbookingsketches.com
stop-being-tired.com
sarcoidosis-remission.com
keephimattracted.com
beatmakingsecrets.com
candlemakerscompanion.com
phonenumberscan.com
ssnrecords.org
hybridbatteryrebuild.com
howtoracepigeons.com
dogskinsolutions.com
leathercraftsecrets.com
effectiveballhandling.com
emailtracer.com
riffmasterpro.com
learning2draw.com
repowers.com
e-mailpaysu.com

Cheers,

Jay

There is a huge difference in conversion rates between affiliates. A guy with a targeted list who recommends your product may get 5%, even 8% sometimes. Compare that to someone with one of your banner ads, a tiny one, on a blog--and the conversion rate may be well below 1%. Sure, a lot has to do with the quality of the sales page, but if someone is sending you junk, unqualified hops the conversion rates for the traffic will be very, very low. -Mike

I usually have high conversion rate with SEO traffic and less with paid traffic sources.

This thread reminds me of when I was new and naive and I was sending cold ppc traffic to one of the popular, established CB products.... I had over 1500 clicks with no sales.

Ofthemix,
It could be the sales letter for the product, have you tried bypassing their sales letter?

I have yet only ever choose two poorly converting products and they quickly got swapped out of the mix.

If I've spent 3X the amount of commission I'd earn from a sale I'll throw in the towel (or tweak my process).

There are reasons for that, Mike.

Successful, professional affiliates tend not to promote anything with such a "leaky" sales page. Most "free trials" are, from the affiliate's perspective, the same as a vendor's opt-in on the sales page, and as you can see, for all the good and valid reasons given in all the threads like this one, the great majority of serious affiliates won't touch them.

The conversion rate is fairly irrelevant. As an affiliate all I would be worried about is making a profit. Therefore you only need to look at two things. The amount of money you are spending on getting traffic to that site and the amount of sales you are making from that traffic.

Subtract the amount of money being spent on traffic from the amount of money being made from sales and you have your profit. What else do you need to know, seriously?

I promote some products in dog training niche and the conversions rate is 1:400.
I'm not sure whether this is normal or not.But I guess IM products has better conversion rates.

I'm aiming for is 5:100.

just looking at my stats from last year...this is organic traffic

seduction ebooks 1 in 3,000
magnetic generators 1:350
solar panels 1:800
driving phobia 1: maybe 1,000,000 i wouldn't know
singorama 1: no sales ever
hemmorohoids 1:1,000 with refunds
pregnancy 1:200 with refunds
background check 1:100
wii unlock 1: no sales
ps3 and xbox fix 1:300
games 1:8,000
girlfiend back 1:100 getting worse
save marriage 1:300 getting worse

again, this is for the last year and today it's probably possible to get 5:100.Probably.

If I don't get a sale within 10 to 15 clicks I scrap it and look for a new product or niche.