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Success promoting clickbank products

by GowebMkt
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Hi Fellow Warriors,

Ive made some decent money the past few months promoting Clickbank products
on Youtube...but am curious if anyone has had success promoting CB items on
Question and Answer type sites?

For example, find a question on the Q&A site, then find a solution / product on CB...then answer the question with a few tips...then place a link to your pre-sales / landing page.

Bret
#clickbank #products #promoting #success
  • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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    Originally Posted by GowebMkt View Post

    For example, find a question on the Q&A site, then find a solution / product on CB...then answer the question with a few tips...then place a link to your pre-sales page.
    It sounds to me like a good way to get posts deleted and/or be banned for spamming?

    Personally, I don't put my ClickBank affiliate-links on sites I don't own.

    I've certainly successfully used question-and-answer-type sites to draw traffic to my own sites, where (in all the usual "ClickBank affiliate ways") I've successfully promoted ClickBank products to those visitors, but I wouldn't want to try direct-linking a hoplink from someone else's site to a sales-page. I don't say it wouldn't ever be possible to make a sale that way, but it definitely isn't something I'd ever want to try, myself. (I would think ClickBank would also be far from happy about it, if they found out?).

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    • Profile picture of the author GowebMkt
      To be more clear...I would place a link to MY landing page....not direct to the CB sales page. (:
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      • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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        Originally Posted by GowebMkt View Post

        To be more clear...I would place a link to MY pre-sales page....not direct to the CB sales page. (:
        Ah, I see ... yes, that's perhaps different.

        I've always done the link to my normal landing-page (which isn't selling anything and doesn't mention a specific product at all).

        I'm not sure how it would work with a link to a "pre-sales page". I imagine it would depend on whether the question-and-answer site concerned considered it "spammy". (And possibly on whether ClickBank thought that, too? Though doing it that way probably wouldn't, in principle, worry them nearly as much?).

        What can work well, in my experience, is answering questions at length and in detail, in either an entertaining or a provocative way, and then leaving a link to a page where there's further information available (my landing-page).

        The example of this that springs to mind, for me, is Yahoo Answers. I've certainly had good, opting-in, subsequently-buying traffic from that source, in several different niches, but it's a real learning-curve using that site successfully for this purpose. (I've posted a lot about that in other threads, but won't bore you by repeating it all again here!).

        Originally Posted by Sarevok View Post

        But because of the nature of the posting, in all probability it can't be scaled up or systematized.
        Yes, I can't really disagree with that, at all. At times I've done well with this, but it's relatively time-consuming (compared with, for example, writing an article which can be published in lots of places) and certainly not the most scalable of activities.

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  • Profile picture of the author experting facebook
    As the 1st comment says: you will be banned if you are doing such a way
    answering a question by giving a product through your affiliate link is called SPAM!
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  • Profile picture of the author Sarevok
    I concur with Alexa that technically, this might not have much longterm feasibility because whatever service or website you're promoting on could easily ban you if someone complains.

    Nonetheless, I've used Yahoo Answers (I'm level 2 and have 374 points and 37% best answers. Yeah I kinda suck haha). This was for experimental purposes and I actually could get some amount of traffic.

    That being said, it's possible to ethically promote your webpage as LONG AS your post makes sense and isn't blatantly plugging your service. (And any link you promote has to be RELEVANT or people will report you for spam. There's a ton of people flagging posts on these types of communities, so if in doubt, you're probably at risk of moderation. All links should ONLY be in the "source" box).

    At the end of the day? Sure, maybe you can get some traffic. But because of the nature of the posting, in all probability it can't be scaled up or systematized. (Because the more exposure you get, the higher probability of complaints and therefore reaction from the administrators of whatever site).

    Just my two cent brainstorm.
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  • Profile picture of the author TheFranchiseMarketer
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    In my opinion as well as the opinions of others, clickbank is the worst place to b an affiliate. I have multiple clickbank accounts that stopped generating traffic and sales regardless of the fact that I had successful campaigns setup. All I am telling you is don't be surprised if all of a sudden you stop generating sales and getting traffic to your link if you are an affiliate. Clickbank will also give you no reason for the ban either.
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  • Profile picture of the author himanuzo
    Always give answers which useful and informative, don't spam. So your answers plus your own site url will stay for long time.
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