Terrible stats on CB product or what?

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I've been promoting a product on CB since Oct. I used PPC for about a month, then stopped. I've been doing article marketing ever since and made an equal amount of sales.

Could you please review these stats for me? Thanks...

My ClickBank stats are

2186 hopcount

39 order form impressions

6 sales

1 refund

All this since Oct. of 2009

I've written 20 or more articles as well. The order form buy percentage is fine. However, the sales letter only has a 2% rate at getting the reader TO the order from. However the sales letter is only converting 0.003% of readers into buyers.

Is it me or this just extremely poor?

My articles at EA are getting a lot of views. Two of them have over 1,000 views. I've got over 360 from them alone. Still seems poor though.

Should I can it and find a new niche? I'm not doing another PPC ad until I'm making $1000 a month from article marketing.

Thanks,

Shane
#product #stats #terrible
  • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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    • Profile picture of the author Graham scass
      i would say the traffic you are getting to your articles is not targeted enough, are the keywords you are using in your article closely related to the product you are trying to sell if they are then i would agree that the sales page you are sending them to is not great, if not then i would look again at what keywords you are using for your articles.

      hope this helps,

      Graham.
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  • Profile picture of the author dsmpublishing
    Hi shane

    i find that these stats are extremely low and the sales page must be bad for the conversions to be like this.

    Or is it your articles for example if you are using the affiliate link in full some people are put off by affiliate links and will then google for it instead. I find that if you link to a review from the article the conversions are so much higher because people trust you and the effort you have made far more.

    So if you havent already do a squidoo lens to send people to first.

    kind regards


    sam
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    • Profile picture of the author TimAtkinson
      Originally Posted by dsmpublishing View Post

      Hi shane

      i find that these stats are extremely low and the sales page must be bad for the conversions to be like this.

      Or is it your articles for example if you are using the affiliate link in full some people are put off by affiliate links and will then google for it instead. I find that if you link to a review from the article the conversions are so much higher because people trust you and the effort you have made far more.

      So if you havent already do a squidoo lens to send people to first.

      kind regards


      sam
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      Yea good point-have link from article to review or depending on product "your story" or an Ebook that is relevant to affiliate product with links in ebook to offer
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  • Profile picture of the author guptara
    I guess the conversions are a bit low. Out of 2000+ peoplle on the site only 39 click the order link. Is it some kind of optin page and not a sales page?
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  • Profile picture of the author TimAtkinson
    Darn If I was 15 mins faster..Haha So instead of repeating what Alexa said I will try to add some value here. Are your articles giving the answer to the problem or are you leading them to want to know more(meaning the answer is in the anchor text). Even though article marketing is super powerful are you using other marketing methods, like forum posting on a large scale. Outsource your forum posting at low cost to like 10 people who post on 5 different forums(preferably niche related with 1,000's of members)-This type of marketing brings in over a 1,000 a month for me alone. You have them post 20 a day-post of value. Did you create your own squeeze page to build your buyers list-then you can follow up with emails..usually takes around the 3rd email if they will buy and if not that one-send them a different offer. Also I wouldn't just use EA. I would submit to at least 20 directories(make sure you spin each article 10x)-outsource. Have articles link back to blog post about this offer. Ping /bookmark these post/articles--Just some marketing ideas that I use but if your still not getting good conversions, move on--One of the hardest things to do as marketers is to know when to let go. Hope this helps, look forward to seeing sales page
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  • Profile picture of the author ecovergeeks
    as long as your making a profit with it, stick with it and then just try to find another product to promote, even if its $10 profit its better than nothing

    Thanks
    Andy
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  • Profile picture of the author ShaneBoyd
    You know, sometimes you just need to say things out loud before the light bulb goes on. I don't think my articles are pre-selling the product correctly.

    Just to let the cat out of the bag, I'm promoting Save My Marriage Today. You can do a google search on it or here's the site directly Save Marriage | Save My Marriage Today

    Here's some EA headlines I used

    7 Ways to Save Your Marriage and Get Out of a Marriage Rut 1200 views...66 clicks

    Is Rebuilding Trust After an Affair Worth it? 340 views...90 clicks

    A Startling Fact About Emotional Cheating and How to Prevent It 246 views...32 clicks
    The Secrets to Getting Over an Affair - Written For Men Who Were Cheated On 137 views...18 clicks

    I don't use EA only, I manually submit to about 6 others. I don't know how to get the stats on the other ones.

    I don't own the product, but it seemed pretty good by the sales page.

    I'll follow the advice given.

    Thanks for all your help.

    Currently working on the child custoy niche too. One sale out of 10 articles. Not terrible.

    Later days,

    Shane
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  • Profile picture of the author tryinhere
    get tiger to write a review article for you that should get some coverage
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