I am really upset - all my ebook sales have stopped...

3. Not a problem. See here http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post4047795


Andrew

If you will get quality website traffic you will get sales. The following thread will help you:

http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...d-traffic.html

Coming to your third point, you should not worry about it.

Its possible that google indexed your website from a place where there was your hoplink which redirected to the url you mentioned. As its not Clickbank URL, any added parameter to your own URL will not affect your Clickbank payments & you will get paid full sale value.

Hope to have helped.

Cheers
Ciel!

It could be other factors. IE: I was selling an ebook about Pokerstars. Sales dropped dead as soon as the US govt stopped live gambling with Pokerstars. I wasn't sure how this would effect the sales when I heard about it. Now I do. It seems that US customers were the bread and butter for that product.

Checking your web stats (IE: using statcounter - it's free) can answer a lot of questions.

If you dropped in rankings, then here is your answer. Or maybe your niche is seasonal and your visitors don't realy buy in this time period.

There are many factors involved.

There are so many reasons for sales to drop suddenly and all you can do is keep trying to market it or look for affiliates. Some products just are more popular seasonally. I have some items that do wonderfully three months out of the year, consistently seven months out of the year, then are dead for two months. Try new marketing methods and work on new products . It is always good to have many irons in the fire.

It's really tough to respond without knowing what the product is, or at least the niche it is in.

Last time I had a product that essentially stopped, I found that someone else had a new competing product with "better claims" (they lied through their teeth) and a lower price that initially got them a chunk of sales. Over time, things levelled out and they seemed to go away (perhaps they got too many refunds and were dropped by their payment processor due to the inflated claims?).

Short term sales fluctuations on a low volume product are extremely hard to deal with. Though there are lots of products out there that are very good products with low volumes (1 or 2 or so a day), the numbers can vary by a huge amount without any apparrent reason.

Of course (as has already been said) perhaps the product is seasonal (or if not, something seasonal is taking the attention of your customers) and you are experiencing a normal fluctuation as a result.

By having products across several niches or topics, you can sort of level this sort of behavior. When one product hits a slump, another may be at a peak, and it tends to make for a more consistent income...

you need to keep adding fresh content if you want to grow search engine traffic - if you don't make any updates for several months, then traffic is guaranteed to drop off a bit