Clickbank Landing Page?

Interesting how you state that using the nake aff link doesn't work anymore... I guess you're using ads on keywords which pulls in cold traffic or youtube vids, parasite sites etc... If its keywords which strongly relate to the product then that indicates the vendor's conversion is not so great (useful to examine your analytics in more detail)...

Either way that's never been my approach so I definitely agree that you're thinking on the right lines as its the job of the affiliate to add value and persuade a potential lead to buy (e.g. review and/or bonus offer on top).... your conversions will be higher versus a redirect to the vendor which in a lot of cases - potential buyers will conduct further searches online in order to form an opinion of which you're very likely to lose the commission with another website picking up the affiliate cookie...

Your 3 options are basically what I use (plus I use a few other tactics in addition ;-) Therefore don't see them as mutual exclusive and further not necessarily placed on a single web resource...

I tend to use option 1 as the home page with email capture on exit capture.... and a small link on footer to the blog for crawling purposes...

Blog pages aim to funnel traffic to either email capture for bonus or to home page for offer... The benefit of the blog is that you can provide a more detailed review or articles relating to the subject and thus turn cold traffic into warm if that makes sense... and with the lead capture facilitate that further with an autoresponder series...

I also use off-page seo with slow/steady link building in parallel to posting new content as part of building the site....

Hope that helps and good luck ;-)

I use a combination of 2 and 3. Draw them in with some testimonials, then hook them into the list. Then upsell.

No, of course. And it wouldn't be a sensible thing to do, even if it did work to some profitable extent.

Why on Earth would you want to do that? You're an affiliate, not the vendor?? It isn't your job to sell the product, and you'll make fewer sales if you try to sell than if you just pre-sell effectively. Your job is to pre-sell, not to sell.

Seriously - key concept for you, here: ClickBank affiliate marketing is not a "selling products" business.

It's a "supplying pre-sold, warmed-up, highly targeted traffic to the vendor's sales-page" business. And that's a completely different gescheft altogether.

Less damaging, but still far from optimal.

Better!

But it doesn't have to be a "squeeze page": it just has to be an "opt-in page".

I think you may be a little confused about these terms "landing page", "opt-in page" and "squeeze page"?

This might help you: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post9319964

And this will surely help you, Lenin: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post7110523 <---- read that one, if nothing else!

Here's the thing: to earn significant money from affiliate marketing, you need to do three things ...

(i) Keep your potential customers returning to the sales page (because not so many people buy anthing much at their first visit to a sales page!);

(ii) Make increasing sales (ideally at progressively higher prices) to the same "captive audience" who regularly rely on and trust your recommendations - in successful affiliate marketing, most of the long-term income comes from doing this;

(iii) Establish the credibility and trust necessary to do both the above by earning's people respect as a provider of niche-related information.

Without building lists, of course, you can't do any of the three and you'd just be throwing away almost all the traffic you ever generate that doesn't buy anything immediately.

That would be like trying to run the bath by opening the taps fully but without remembering to put the plug in the hole first. You just lose almost everything, almost immediately. What kind of way to run a business would that be?

For most people, most of the time, it's just about as simple as that, overall.

These three threads are more informative ...

Is it a good idea to spend some time on building a mailing list ?

Without Building a List, How Consistent is Your Income from Affiliate Marketing

Does anyone even make money online without an email list?

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I would recommend adding pre-sell content to your landing page. Give your target customers something valuable for free!

IMO you should try all three and test the differences and see what works better. Don't leave it up to chance, collect the data and determine it for sure