Sudden drop in Clickbank sales, advice?

That is truly strange, no sales, yet traffic is the same. Hopefully they come back for you.

I am not sure what you are writing, but Kindle marketplace is probably pretty darn competitive as I've heard.

If I were you, I would spend a week or two, crank out 50 articles on squidoo. After all, you've made some money, so it does work.

Then write your ebook as you collect money from the squidoo lenses.

Maybe it's not those articles where you were getting your sales from?

Also, how can I thank a post?

The only buttons I see are quote, multiquote, and quick reply. Hmmm. Just another thing to worry about! Thanks though.

First of all here is what to do

1) check your links payment buttons, website technicals. Go through and make sure they are all working. If they are not FIX THEM!

2) If you are getting sales from articles, the most likely thing is, you have good content, a good bio box but you need to be tracking to see which articles is getting you the best results.

I track like a nut, and articles still work if they are 850 - 1000 words long and give good advice. But make sure you track.....soon you will find articles with a certain subject matter for you site will get your more optins and sales. So just keep doing more of these or outsource a good writer to write more of these subject articles. They have to be high quality, but if something is working, why go chasing and find something else.

Seems u didnt track properly....so this time write high quality articles and use software to track which articles are bringin you sales, and then just do more of them.

Have one article that brings you in a few sales. BINGO! write 10000000 more of these articles and syndicate them on blogs, forums, ezines, guest posts, newspages, journals etc....and watch the sale flood in. Track and test more. SEe how it works.

Oh and remember to build your list man. The money is in the list....you heard it 10000000 times in here before.

Good luck.

Log into your Squidoo account and replace the Clickbank links with a fresh copy in each article. But also bear in mind that sometimes you can go a good period of time without sales.

It sounds to me like the sales were the exception to the rule.

Your thread should have been...

"Sudden increase in Clickbank sales, advice?"

Sometimes a site will get weird spikes in traffic like that because they were featured somewhere, someone different linked to you, it could be a whole hoast of things.

just proceed what you were doing and don't give up on them and hopefully sales will find you again, best of luck.

Good points, everyone, thank you. I don't really want to spend time worrying about them, especially because it was just a nice surprise that they started making money (also suddenly) in the first place. I'm just wondering now if I just spend the time writing additional lenses, or if it was just a fluke that I was earning for a while there. Maybe I'll wait a bit more and see if they start earning again.

It happens. Years ago when I was selling a couple video game guides through CB I was doing consistently well every day and paid to promote my sites. Every once in a while, I would go from $400 a day to a straight $0. I once went a week with no sales, but had the same traffic. Then I would have people e-mail me with questions whom didn't pay me for the guide but obviously had downloaded it, and had payment receipts. After a while I ditched CB and set up an agreement with the owner of the digital products and my income grew and was more consistent without CB.

I don't know, CB is funny like that.

Sandra that's a good point. A vendor may introduce a hover ad or create a new opt-in form embedded onto their sales letter - therefore diluting your commissions. And they probably won't be using their clickbank product url to promote to subscribers in their email newsletter.

One thing I would do, is setup third party tracking to determine whether or not people are clicking on your links.

This way, you can begin to isolate the source of the decreased sales.

Also, as others have mentioned, it's a good idea to create new Clickbank links.

Finally, I would manually click on the Clickbank link, and scroll down at the bottom after you go through the check out system. Ensure that your affiliate name is properly displayed at the bottom.

Any questions, don't hesitate to ask.

Hiya =)

First off, ain't it great when a lens or website suddenly rises from the ashes and does well??!!? I love when that happens.

Ok, let's check some things -

In your Squidoo dashboard, click to see the stats for those lenses. Click the "traffic" tab and then scroll down to the bottom of the page and look at the "click-outs" info.

Are people still clicking on your links?

If no, well, that kinda answers your questions. Hard to make sales if they aren't clicking your links

If they ARE still clicking the links - go to each lens and click each of your links yourself to make sure they still work... click the buy button and make sure the Clickbank checkout page loads properly and make sure your affiliate id is at the bottom.

I've promoted a product before that was doing really well - then things just stopped. I checked my links, saw the sales page load and didn't check any further. Turns out the vendor took the product off of Clickbank - which I would've known had I clicked the 'buy now' buttons.

Other than that... if traffic is the same (or better), you're still getting clicks on your active and functional affiliate links, then it just might be one of those 'slow times'.

Hope that helps some!

Jennifer
~PotPieGirl