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can I keep my blog with clickbank product?

by christelle
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HI,

I'm about to launch a new product on Clickbank, but I would like to keep my blog on my website, is that wise or does that create leakage?
Or should I leave it only as an affiliate tool?

C.
#blog #clickbank #product
  • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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    You can choose whether to host your own sales page, or have ClickBank host it for you (new-ish facility; very few vendors do it that way - it's not cheap).

    What matters, from the affiliate perspective, isn't "where it's hosted" (they won't even know or notice that, or care), or what else you're hosting on your own site. They'll care about whether your product's sales page has leaks.

    Regardless of where it's hosted, if your sales page has a link to other pages on your site (such as a blog, through which you could readily be contacted), probably no serious, pro-affiliates will be willing to promote it at all, because that's obviously "leaky". (ClickBank won't mind, though.)

    Be aware that there are - broadly speaking - two different "classes" of affiliates promoting ClickBank products: there are the 95%+ of affiliates who make very, very few sales indeed, and aren't too clued up on what they're doing (they don't mind most things vendors do, often not quite understanding their significance); and then there are the fewer-than-5% of affiliates who collectively bring in over 95% of the affiliate-referred sales. Those are the ones whose perceptions/opinions should matter to you. I'm just mentioning it as a suggestion that these are not subjects on which a "consensus of opinion" is necessarily particularly helpful to vendors.

    That's one of the slight difficulties of "learning about ClickBank": the statistics are all rather distorted and there's rather a lot of misinformation around.


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  • Profile picture of the author lunaBEAM
    What do you mean leakage?

    What are you afraid of?
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    • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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      Originally Posted by lunaBEAM View Post

      What do you mean leakage?
      A "leak" is anything that (from the affiliate perspective) can give the product's vendor the affiliate's prospective customer's email address before the sale is made and paid for. That's a good way for affiliates not to get paid, and to lose control of the situation. Explained at more length and in more detail in this fine thread (well worth a careful read, all the way through): http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...oduct-opt.html

      Originally Posted by lunaBEAM View Post

      What are you afraid of?
      I'm sure Christelle can answer for herself, but in general, vendors who ask this question are usually afraid of losing the 5% of their potential affiliates who will make over 95% of the affiliate-referred sales (and those are exactly the affiliates who understand this point, and care about it). That's very easily done, with leaks on the sales page.

      This is yet another illustration of the fundamental and important reality that "having as many affiliates as possible" and "having as many affiliate sales as possible" are two very different things.


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      • Profile picture of the author Michael Shook
        You can leave your site as an affiliate tool if you've got affiliate resources you would like to offer. But your main site needs to be tight. in order for anyone of any consequence (like Alexa) to be willing to promote your product.

        Maybe you can get the dot net or the dot org and transfer your blog to one of those installations and leave your sales page on the dot com.
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      • Profile picture of the author christelle
        Alexa, thank you so much for your approach, I will remove my blog but I have done so much (and so well) with the SEO, I feel its a shame, BUT I know were you come from.
        Thanks again for your time, I will keep you posted

        Originally Posted by Alexa Smith View Post

        A "leak" is anything that (from the affiliate perspective) can give the product's vendor the affiliate's prospective customer's email address before the sale is made and paid for. That's a good way for affiliates not to get paid, and to lose control of the situation. Explained at more length and in more detail in this fine thread (well worth a careful read, all the way through): http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...oduct-opt.html



        I'm sure Christelle can answer for herself, but in general, vendors who ask this question are usually afraid of losing the 5% of their potential affiliates who will make over 95% of the affiliate-referred sales (and those are exactly the affiliates who understand this point, and care about it). That's very easily done, with leaks on the sales page.

        This is yet another illustration of the fundamental and important reality that "having as many affiliates as possible" and "having as many affiliate sales as possible" are two very different things.


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        • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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          Originally Posted by christelle View Post

          Alexa, thank you so much for your approach, I will remove my blog but I have done so much (and so well) with the SEO, I feel its a shame
          It seems a shame to have to remove your blog, Christelle? Can you not resolve this either by having the product's sales page on a different domain, or even by having two different sales pages, if necessary? Affiliates can't object to the vendor having her own blog, after all: we just don't want that to be accessible through the sales pages to which we send our traffic.
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          • Profile picture of the author christelle
            Yes Alexa, I will keep it but under a .org or .net as suggested before.
            The blog is like my 4th baby it's hard to let it go
            Looks like I'm nearly ready to hit the road with Clickbank, very nervous also
            Do you know if there is any way to show it to potential affiliate before submission?
            I would like an honest opinion on the pitch page, ect...
            As You can read I'm a mummy, not an IT crack!!!

            Ta.

            Christelle

            Originally Posted by Alexa Smith View Post

            It seems a shame to have to remove your blog, Christelle? Can you not resolve this either by having the product's sales page on a different domain, or even by having two different sales pages, if necessary? Affiliates can't object to the vendor having her own blog, after all: we just don't want that to be accessible through the sales pages to which we send our traffic.
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  • Profile picture of the author JensSteyaert
    It really depends, but i would always just get a new domain name for a new product, especially if you plan to approach affiliates to promote your product.

    I know some people who succesfully launch their products on their blog, but they already have a very large audience to market to, so that's what it depends upon i guess.
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  • Profile picture of the author zerofatzreturns
    you could always put the new product on a sub domain, the url looks a little ugly though.
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