Using Youtube to send traffic straight to Clickbank landing page?

by adum
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Hey there,

I am pretty new to the whole IM "thing". I came across CB and this forum within the past few days and tried to brainstorm some ideas as far as promoting CB products.

I did a preliminary search on the topic, so I apologize if this has been discussed before.

I am thinking about shooting some videos, maybe like 3 minutes long, that briefly discuss a CB product, upload the vids to Youtube and every other video site, bookmark them, maybe shoot a few of the same video with different titles/descriptions/tags (target specific keywords etc...), and direct people to a CB aff link (with a 301 obviously).

Is this even worth pursuing? It would only take time, which is something I have right now (college student). I like the fact that it's free to do, but can it work?

I would be giving people a link straight to the CB product landing page, not to a blog I made w/ more info or anything.

Thanks in advance for any advice or suggestions.

Best Regards,

Adam
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  • Profile picture of the author JulieKerr
    Hi Adam,

    Its a good method, I have done this in the past and have seen some decent results.

    But it all depends on the Niche you are targeting, coz youtube traffic conversion is
    very bad.

    Plus I would suggest you to make an landing page with a opt in form, so that atleast
    you can collect emails address to promote other offers later on.

    Regards,

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  • Profile picture of the author adum
    Thanks for the response Julie.

    Yeah I will definitely be selective about the niches I choose, I know that there are certain demographics that frequent video sites more than others.

    This may just be my ignorance, but wouldn't I need to give those people something of value for free for opting in to a list? I feel like the list would be low quality, maybe not in terms of prospects but just in my connection to them. If I had a website/blog that they visited and could learn info, then the list would be stronger, ya know? I don't know if investing in building the list for this type of thing would be worth it.

    I would prefer to skip that whole build a site and list process, do things as simply as possible.

    I dunno I'm just proposing stuff, I don't know that much yet but I am willing to learn.

    I do have currently run a blog that gets decent traffic and I've built a list, but haven't sold to those people yet because I don't know what they'd buy. It's a blog based on a hobby (Pokemon cards), I really need to do a random drawing contest for people that fill out a questionaire, then I can figure out what to sell them...anyways that's a different topic.
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  • Profile picture of the author Kevin Williams
    I agree that the conversion is VERY bad I have one video with >8000 views but no purchases. You need to REALLY pre-sell them in the video!
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    • Profile picture of the author actionplanbiz
      Originally Posted by spire8989 View Post

      I agree that the conversion is VERY bad I have one video with >8000 views but no purchases. You need to REALLY pre-sell them in the video!
      this is also true in my senerio. i have a non presell vid that gets 100 views a day and once in a while 1 of those will click on my domain or type it in. but never resulted in a sale yet
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      • Profile picture of the author Harvey Segal
        Adam

        There's no harm in sending them directly to a page
        on your blog which initially, until you think of
        what to say, can just tell the visitor to 'click here'
        for the product. It gives you scope to add and experiment.

        But for a start how about ending the video with
        "Oh there's something else I need to tell you
        - the best feature of all . . . " and mention
        that on your page

        Harvey
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    • Profile picture of the author steveniam
      That's better than me.

      I have done one video in the music niche with more than 300,000 views and still counting. So far no conversion

      Originally Posted by spire8989 View Post

      I agree that the conversion is VERY bad I have one video with >8000 views but no purchases. You need to REALLY pre-sell them in the video!
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      • Profile picture of the author clint48
        You can try it, but you would be better off taking your time to build a couple of products, give one of the products away to join your list and set your auto responder to redirect to your other product.

        Someone mentioned that the ctr is going to be low going to your affiliate link from You Tube, and someone else mentioned that most people will not buy the product the first time they visit the site, both of these statements are true. It may be easier for you to use You Tube, but you stand a better chance making money building a list.

        We all want to make money as quickly as possible, but make sure you don't spend too much time on something that is not working.

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  • Profile picture of the author Adeel_Chowdhry
    You know what though... you will never know until you try.

    Test the page with an optin, and without.

    Hard results speak!

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  • Profile picture of the author gvannorman
    Im not an expert on this affiliate marketing thing. But, from my experience it is very difficult to get started. Here is what I suggest, just me. Try article marketing and video marketing combinded. Send both to your optin page and check the results, Im going to go out on a limb and say that the article one will get the most hits, and hopefully conversions.

    I currently have a few videos up on youtube and nothing...but Im still working on getting started. I think its all in the product and the landing page, if you would buy it from what the ad page looks like, then it might be good...but what works for one might not work for another.
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  • Profile picture of the author adum
    What exactly do you guys mean by opt-in page?

    Send them to a page (that I host) where they fill out their e-mail and THEN get sent to the CB sales page? Or just get their e-mail then send them the link? In the videos I just plan to discuss the product and point them to the link to buy.

    Also, I feel like I'd be fortunate if they go to the link, let alone opt-in to a newsletter when I don't have anything to give them as a "gift".

    I agree testing is the best method, but seriously what incentive will they have to sign up for my list? I want to make a bunch of videos for diff niches and target keywords so people see them, not really spend time creating value, though that might be better. We'll see how good I am at pitching something on camera
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    • Profile picture of the author Marcel Hartmann
      Originally Posted by adum View Post

      What exactly do you guys mean by opt-in page?

      Send them to a page (that I host) where they fill out their e-mail and THEN get sent to the CB sales page? Or just get their e-mail then send them the link? In the videos I just plan to discuss the product and point them to the link to buy.

      Also, I feel like I'd be fortunate if they go to the link, let alone opt-in to a newsletter when I don't have anything to give them as a "gift".

      I agree testing is the best method, but seriously what incentive will they have to sign up for my list? I want to make a bunch of videos for diff niches and target keywords so people see them, not really spend time creating value, though that might be better. We'll see how good I am at pitching something on camera
      Opt-in page = get their email address. Offer them something.

      You should ALWAYS buy the product you're promoting.

      Send them a free video where you're discussing some of the ways to [lose weight/whatever] and casually point out a few of the pages in the PDF where you've found some great details. What PDF? That's what they'll be thinking. It's the actual product you've bought. Soft sell or hard sell, whatever you prefer.
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  • Profile picture of the author glide21
    I have several videos with hundreds of viewing. They point to my blog where the user can get some value and opt in. In my experience, no one buys straight off a video, it usually requires at least 2-7 emails to overcome doubt. I don't think it is the videos purpose to sell direct, look at it more as creating a brand and name for yourself. Hence the opt in is critical. Maybe if you sell right handed watches for goldfish or something obscure as that you may get some sales, tried that with 'teach your parrot to talk', no buyers. From the opt in list I do get sales. You can quite easily create content using article automation, although most of the articels will carry links to other affiliate sites.
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    • Profile picture of the author Silas Hart
      As someone said before, I would suggest using your youtube videos to give details on a product, then point them to an opt in page. A page with no freebies may possibly result in a stronger e-mail list, however an opt in page with a freebie may result in a bigger e-mail list.

      I'm currently in the stage of making Youtube videos on making money, feel free to look up my very basic youtube videos! I feel that if you provide information on a youtube video as well as make your over all channel somewhat personal and entertaining then you will over time, build up a good subscriber list. Once you put up a video and you have a product you actually support and stand-by and you hype it personally, and talk about it, the people that actually watch you will be more interested. If you put up a video in the form of a sale page, or a "go to my site to buy this" that looks non-personal and non-entertaining, people will view it as a commercial because thats essentially what it is. I dont know about you, but during commercials I get up and go to the kitchen and get some food or something and I'm back in time for the show I was actually interested in/being entertained by.

      Look at "KingHuman" for example, the guy is entertaining. He provides a bunch of information and ideas and stuff, and overtime has built a following. I bet if he were to put up a video of say "How to make $1240/week with ClickBank" that pointed his viewers to a sales page where he was selling the product for $19.99, he would no doubt make some money.

      This thread actually reminds me of this video:

      Although this isn't exactly what your question is, but it kind of gives a plan on how to use social media marketing to then advertise affiliate products.
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  • Profile picture of the author adum
    Thanks for all the input everyone, you've really given me some things to thing about.

    What if I don't know anything about the products I am promoting? How do I create something of value in that case? Look for free ebooks or something to give out?

    And I think I've watched that Perry Belcher video before, his concepts are pretty good. It's true that you are going to buy more from someone you know and trust.
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    • Profile picture of the author JAIDEEP2959
      It is a good method but not suitable for every niche.

      This method will work for following niches :

      1)Music

      2)Movies

      3)Games

      4)Humor

      Basically anything related to fun and entertainment works well with Youtube.com.

      Good luck.
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      • Profile picture of the author alexanderberson
        Originally Posted by JAIDEEP2959 View Post

        It is a good method but not suitable for every niche.

        This method will work for following niches :

        1)Music

        2)Movies

        3)Games

        4)Humor

        Basically anything related to fun and entertainment works well with Youtube.com.

        Good luck.

        I was going to write exact same thing but now i dont have to

        EXACTLY RIGHT ON..
        Music, movies, games, humor material is 100% what people want when they visit youtube
        However you should not discourage yourself from promoting anything else besides that.

        It all comes down to, if the visitor likes and trusts you and number of views to your video.
        I mean, if your video gets 100,000 visits from real people, then no matter what you sell, you will sell it in large enough orders to make you comfortable with your lifestyle.

        If you become real good with youtube videos and you gets lots of traffic, you might as well try to join youtube partnership program. If you get it, well, let me just say you will not need to promote anything else ever again. Those guys usually get between $3000 to $20,000 a MONTH checks from Youtube PARTNERSHIP.

        Anyway, good luck to you my friend.
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  • Profile picture of the author adum
    Yeah those were actually the kinds of niches I was thinking of promoting. Thanks for giving me some reassurance that this kind of thing can work.

    I'll have to look into the Partnership program, that is actually something I could possibly profit from with my hobby niche blog as I already make instructional Pokemon TCG videos and get a decent amount of views (def not enough to get into the program but it could be good for the future.)

    I'll probably shoot some vids this weekend, maybe I'll post the links to them for criticism (if it's ok to post the links? don't want to infringe on any forum rules as the vids will have aff links in them).
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  • Profile picture of the author bryemidas
    Hey Adam...

    Everything... YouTube has more or less already been said by other members... But one thing I would strongly recommend whatever traffic method you adopt, is that you seriously consider using a landing/pre-sell page, with or without an optin - depending on your offer.

    Pre-selling just offers way better conversion, plus you get the control over keywords, tags, links etc...

    I wish you every success

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  • Profile picture of the author drwhogoesthere
    I think one of the problems with youtube is we are trying to market to an audience that dont want to watch ads.

    People want to see funny, quirky, and outstanding things on you tube not be told what to buy. They get enough of that on the TV with going on line a looking for it.
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  • Profile picture of the author garwil200
    I made a YouTube video for my first Squidoo page over 2 months ago. It was for a niche product in the health field, specifically for natural healing of kidney stones. I also posted it on my blog. The video was intended to do 2 things, first establish myself as an online natural health consultant, and brand myself. The second was to get conversions to the natural product I recommended, after reviewing in the search engines, and finding what I think was the best choice.

    The results were, I made it up to position 16, out of 11,000, on Google. At the same time I made number one position on YouTube search. After reading some of the posts on this subject, I doubt if anyone with kidney stones would go to YouTube to search for a solution to their problem. I have currently dropped back to a position on Google, between 35 and 39'th position. I don't think many people search past the first 3 pages. The bottom line is I got one sale in my first 2 months.

    The posts on this thread have reinforced my decision, to use videos to help me build my branding and trust, and use them in my emails. Steveniam had 300,000 hits on his music video, and no conversions. At that rate it would take 40 years to make any money.

    With all this in mind, I am currently doing nothing but building an optin email list. I will be sending a series of emails, giving them a different downloadable link to a free ebook or videos, each mailing. My short videos will be in each email, promoting the value of my gifts. There will be no sales letters included. After 5 to 6 emails, then I will begin to send them offers for my affiliate products.

    I estimate it will take me just a few months to build my list of double optins.That is a lot better than trying to sell from YouTube videos. Adum, that's my 2 cents worth,, hope it helps somone. If you do need products to give away, check out my signature.

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