New to Affiliate Marketing Need Help

Clickbank affiliate links don't seem to work. People change them or they've already been cookied to death so your link isn't the one that gets credit for the sale. I don't know any of that for sure but the signs are all there.

What category of products are you interested in reselling? Instead of affilate marketing, why don't you become a reseller and contact manufacturers of whatever you want to sell, get the wholesale cost and make sure you get paid for all your sales because those affiliate links are just not reliable enough for all the work it takes just to get one sale.

Well, there are a lot of threads here on "how to build lists", so you have plenty of reading there. (I know it's not so easy to find, but it's all here somewhere!).

Do you mean AdWords? Don't do that: it makes very little sense to spend money promoting any ClickBank product without opting people in. What sells products like that is normally the strength of the relationship you have with them: they buy it because you're the person recommending it, and they trust you. You need to become that person! (And it's far easier by email than any other way, overall).

Nobody can answer this question reliably without knowing a lot more information.

You shouldn't have a "sales page" at all.

Sales pages are for vendors, not for affiliates. You should be pre-selling the product and collecting the email addresses of those potentially interested, in order to do more of the same.

Personally, I almost never promote products with such high gravity as this, but that's just me (well, actually it's not just me, it's plenty of people, but I know there are also others who do, and don't find that offputting as some of us do).

I think the "bottom line" for you is that you need to learn about list building and get that in place before going further, really. I certainly wouldn't spend money on any forms of promotion without doing that first.

There are tons of ways to promote ClickBank products. Email marketing is probably the best one.

The normal way is to give them some sort of "free report" (in PDF form) in exchange for their email address, yes. It's better to have something more than just "a series of emails giving them information" to offer them, and more people will normally opt in that way.

It can be fairly short, as long it's nicely presented, well written, and gives good information.

It's possible to outsource this, and effectively "buy one" from somebody who writes it for you, but then you'd still need to write an email series to send out. (You can outsource that, too, but then you're spending some money on it).

Not for ClickBank products, no. It's going to be very difficult indeed to sell many ClickBank products without some writing being involved in the process.

But there are many other ways you can use SEO skills online and translate them into money.

Only by effectively buying in the "writing" parts, I think.

By email marketing, after opting people in (either with a pre-selling site, or just with a squeeze page, though I believe the conversion rates are typically lower with just a squeeze page, because the list quality isn't as good).

For people selling them well, and making serious money, only by email marketing. There are other people, with other sorts of websites, who also have some additional ClickBank-product advertisements on them, as an "extra", and don't build lists, and don't use email marketing, but my impression is that they make very few ClickBank sales.

Have you thought about maybe providing SEO services for marketers instead, or attracting traffic to CPA offers, instead of trying to sell ClickBank-type products? I'm just wondering if one of these (or maybe something different) it might be a better approach for you?

Whatever gives you this idea, Allan?

Does the fact that there are so many people in this forum successfully making a full-time living and building big businesses just by selling ClickBank products without using PPC at all make you want to reconsider it?

Yes, I agree with (most of) that part.

Which is why you won't catch me promoting "IM products" on ClickBank. As you say, some of their intended customers are already affiliates and there's no reason at all for those people to buy it through my affiliate-link.

But what does any of that have to do with promoting by PPC advertising? :confused:

Yes, like this ... you send them some "further valuable content" and promote the product, but not in every email. Many people recommend something like 2 emails "providing more content" and then 1 with a product-promotion; then another 2 with good content and another 1 with a promotion - something like this.

(I send a promotion in about 1 email in 3, but the promotion is only half of the email).

The link you send them, in the email, can be either a masked hoplink or a link to some information/review on your site, where you have a masked hoplink for them to click on.

I send a link to something (usually on my own site) in almost every email I send, because I want my subscribers to get used to clicking on my links and expecting and finding something valuable. This way, more of them will click on the promotional links, when I send those.

Aweber is a good autoresponder service to use for this. (GetResponse is also good, I'm sure, though I haven't used it yet).

I can't see a ClickBank product there. (It's a huge site - I might have missed it!).

Clearly the site is selling supplements (physical products) from Amazon and other places.

But the idea is certainly similar; yes.

Maybe ... maybe not.

Some people don't send anything "promotional" for the first 2 weeks or something (I usually include my first promotion after about 1 week).

Sorry, I don't know enough about Shareasale to answer it. Others will reply.

Please excuse my mentioning again that I would not normally promote a ClickBank product with a gravity of 157, myself. I might, as the third product, if I already promoted two others in the same niche, and I particularly liked the product and wanted a third one. But not normally. In my years of doing this, and with all the products I've promoted in 8 or 9 different niches, I've always found low gravity products far easier to sell, myself, and there are some good and valid reasons for that. (Some of them are explained - by me and others - in one of the threads linked to above).

That's your department. I thought your plan was SEO, for this?

If you can get enough of it, maybe that won't matter?

I get 20% of my traffic from SEO, and the other 80% is better traffic, for sure. But I get that through article marketing, which I think we've agreed isn't ideal for you, since you don't want to have to do a lot of writing?

If SEO is the skill that you "bring to your own table", then isn't that your natural traffic-generation method? There are people who do it that way, certainly. If you can get enough of it ... (?).

Hi,

How can i find a mentor here? By paying or what can you suggest me on how to find a mentor.

Copywriting is a whole different matter from content-writing. For content writing, you should hire a content-writer, not a copywriter.

My method of getting traffic is this one.

There are a few hundred other threads here on various other methods of generating targeted traffic (PPC advertising is just one example - there are several others).

Yes, you're right about this. The articles need specifically to be written for syndication, otherwise it isn't going to work very well. Which is part of the reason why that particular business model is, overall, perhaps more suitable to those writing their own articles. Although article syndication can produce some very good traffic from only small numbers of articles, they're not going be cheap (or necessarily easy) articles to outsource.

For myself, I don't use squeeze pages, for the reasons explained here: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post5785606

I don't use Wordpress, myself.

I think most people do, and it certainly has some advantages (including easy availability of help/advice on how to use it).

I think there are also some non-Wordpress "review site scripts", but perhaps more Wordpress themes designed for that sort of purpose, also? As far as I know, these aren't necessarily the sort of thing one would want to use with article syndication (but I don't use any of them myself, so it's outside my experience).