Confused on HOW I Should Promote Clickbank Product On My Site

You can promote it through your email list. Whore up subscribers through your blog (sidebar and lightbox) and squeeze page. Then tell them about your product when they're warm.

Hmm. Well, it's going to be difficult then I guess. Do you have a blog? If you've got a very active blog with lots of traffic, you could always do product reviews on it. Hyperlink to the sales page from that. A popup like a lightbox could work also but won't convert as well since you need to sell this product cold.

I would really make sure to try to warm the traffic on the page. With either something like a good review, and put a bulrb about the product at the bottom of each blog post.

Yes, I have a blog that's gets quite a bit of organic traffic from google searches.

About 80 percent of my posts are optimized to a long tail keyword or phrase.

I would feel more comfortable with a banner ad that's placed in the sidebar, along with a link at the end of each post that took them to a post that I created that reviews the affiliate product.

Has anyone ever seen someone take an approach such as that? The idea popped in my mind as I read some of your responses

Having a clickable banner at the top and upper right hand side of your blog is the best places. You can also use your posts to effectively get your visitors to take action. The higher the quality of your content the more they will want. Build a relationship with them through high quality articles and have strong calls to action inside your article.

A review, along with a video or two should be enough pre-sell to make a real prospect click to the sales page. Mention some (poor) competitor products, then contrast that with the product being sold. Come across as a consumer advocate who's on their side.

So who do you recommend I turn to how to create the banner ad on my behalf? I assume that in addition to being able to create the image for the ad, they would also need to be skilled in creating effective copy, correct?

Are there professionals out there that are skilled in both of these areas that I could contract this work out to?

Actually, disregard that last question. On the affiliate's website, there are images and testimonies by professional athletes, along with their pictures.

Should I assume that it's okay to use that those images and the quotes on my own banner ad that I create to promote their products on my website?

I have sent this query to them via email, however I just thought I would ask you guys for your opinion as I wait.

I would email the person who owns that program and ask him if he has some banners made up. I would not do this myself. If they don't have any, there are plenty of other products on CB that you can promote and that have banners.

Banners can still get your visitors to click on them. It all depends where you place them on your website. If you place a few at the very top of the page, then that is a good way to go.

Just make sure that the banners don't FLASH. That could be very annoying for many people and they will avoid clicking on them.


There is a software on the market that does a very nice job. When a visitor clicks on the "X" to exit your website, you can have a code installed on your website that opens up a dialog box for them to view your offer.

It is called ExitSplash.com. I have used it in the past and it works really well.

Alexa, I checked out that other thread you referenced, and it helped a lot.

I fully understand the power of building email lists; in fact, I use it on another site that I have for another niche.

As I mentioned earlier, I'm hesitant to use that in this specific niche, though.

A lot of my traffic comes from younger football players that aspire to play collegiate or NFL football.

If I build a list of these contacts, I'm nervous about this raising eyebrows from those that might consider this innappropriate contact between an agent and an "amateur" player.

I know you may not be 100% familiar with the rules in place that I'm referencing, however I just wanted to share my logic.

Perhaps you might have an opinion regarding whether I'm just overreacting and being paranoid or not. :-)

Part of me feels that a one-way email connection is harmless, but the other part of me feels that getting involved with such an initiative is dangerous, and falls into a huge gray area.

I have awesome guide in my Sig if you want to see how to promote clickbank products

Thanks for your feedback guys!

I have one additional question.

I'm strongly considering taking Alexa's guidance to heart, and following each of her points on how to market clickbank products effectively.

I guess I am still a little "old school" minded, in that I'm still interested in having a banner on my site for the product nonetheless, even though I'm going to create an opt-in for my site, and promoting the product that way (in-addition to adding a link to relevant posts on my site that take the reader to a page on my site where I review the affiliate product).

I spoke to the vendor, and they agreed to make a banner to my liking that I can use to promote their product on my site.

I understand that there's an element of unpredictability when it comes to creating ads, in that you have to test to see what gets the best results.

However, even considering that, are there general rules of thumb that one should go by when they're considering the images to use in banner ads?

For example, the product that I want to promote on my site comes in a tangible format, as well as a purely digital format, where you can log-in once you purchase the program to access the program online.

In a situation like this, do you think I'd be better off putting an image of one of the tangible products in the banner ad, or would I be better off using the image of one of the NFL players that promote the product, for example?

I thought I remembered hearing before that images of what the customer is getting (like this) is the way to go, but I was also thinking that action images, along with quotes from credible sources (like this) might be the way to go as well.

Again, I understand that sometimes you have to just test to see what works best, but I was just wondering if you guys knew of a rule-of-thumb when it comes to crafting images for banner ads for informational products; even if it's your own rule-of-thumb, or methodology with such a concern.

I tend to over-analyze things at times, I know. I just like to do research before I take action as much as possible :-)

I think that's a great idea, however I already have Adsense ads tucked in the middle of each of my 200+ blog posts.

It would take forever to remove those, as I strategically placed them in each article when I published them (like this one).

Even though I know it would be beneficial, I would prefer to place the ads somewhere else.

Generate leads or lead them to a pre-sell page. Both work, just figure out which one works best for your business.

Simply write a product review and past the affiliate link inside.