Is ClickBank Dead?

Yes. Assuming you stay away from high-gravity products.

ClickBank is very much alive. Take it from the oldest existing registered member.

It's not that CB is dead, it's my order form impressions that are dead

I still use clickbank with great success, why do you think it is dead or dying?

Internet marketing is dead. Everybody should go get a job at Wal*Mart.

I only do about $5k/month in sales from CB - so yeah - I think its about DEAD.

Maybe not as active as before when there were only a few people promoting CB product/services, but it's still there.

No. Clickbank is far from dead. Just like in the past you will have to spend some quality time finding the right products though. That's not really anything new. High conversion plus a high quality product combined will take some digging but if you spend that extra time it will pay dividends if you are proficient at all at driving targeted traffic.

Funny question. Generally, I stear clear from threads like this...but I feel
like having a bit of fun before I get back to making money on clickbank.

Oops. Well, I just spilled the beans right there.

People who are jumping on the CPA bandwagon are generally people who
don't know how to market. A lot of the CPA converts were people who
couldn't make money WITH digital products, so they figure they'd have
better luck with CPA.

I don't get CPA. It takes just as much work and effort to convert CPA
leads and get 30 $1 leads to make up one $30 clickbank commission &
you will always come out ahead faster with digital products because
you're not putting in 30x the effort to get the same result.

This whole CPA phenomenon is about as bad as the offline marketing
craze....a bunch of people who don't know how to market for themselves
trying to sell marketing packages to suckers who don't know any better.

Anyways, I make money passively from CB everyday, and on my way
to my first $100 day (consistent days). I couldn't imagine trying to do
that with CPA leads -- it would be a b**ch.

Can anyone recommend a good CB-informational-tutorial-help-me-out-and-make-sales ebook or something similar?

PM me, i'll teach you some simple ways to use article marketing to promote CB products if you're interested.

Heck, i'll teach you for free.

Last I checked, Clickbank was very much alive and kicking. While there is a lot more garbage being sold these days over there, it is still a viable marketplace and there are many great products there that you can promote (if you look hard enough).

Don't worry about CPA networks replacing or eliminating Clickbank; while CPA is extremely lucrative and does far more volume than Clickbank, many of the networks are tightening their rules for admission (as you've noted), and Clickbank is the total opposite of that. Of course, CPA offers are completely different from the products that Clickbank is selling, and rules and procedures need to be in place for CPA to ensure that fraudulent activity doesn't take place.

Clickbank is a marketplace that sells digital products, so the more people they can get to promote their products for them, the better off they'll be. This is an 'apples and oranges' comparison, and both have their respective roles to play in the online marketplace; there is very little overlap between the two.

Paul

Yup, it's dead. And not just that CPA, affiliate marketing, blogging, forums and everything related to IM is dead.

Time to get back to the awesome 9-5

Had fun guys but I gotta get to work on time or my manager will be pissed off!

Ha Mohammad always has funny posts.

I only use gravity to see if the product is making sales.

Even then, main thing to look at?

What do you think of the sales page.

Use your brain.

I certainly hope that ClickBank has not died. I'm going to be hurting if it did!

Seriously, though, I'm not even sure what that means...clickbank being dead. As an affiliate marketer your job is to build a list around a certain topic or niche and then provide that list with good, valuable information and recommend products that they would find useful. Whether they come from clickbank or anywhere else, you have to understand the product you are promoting. Is it high quality? Is the commission right? Do they have a funnel on which you collect as well? Do they pre-sell? Is their sales copy great? And again, most important...is it valuable to your subscribers? If you don't recommend relevant, high quality products to your subscribers then ClickBank's pulse rate is not the problem.

Don't believe the devious and scheming marketers that keep saying that "this or that" is dead every few months, it's more than likely a thinly-disguised marketing ploy designed to sell you on their latest and greatest product. It's especially funny when the same marketers change their opinions on what is working (and what isn't), directly contradicting what they had said earlier!

Questions and comments regarding selecting click bank products and especially clickbank gravity come up here on a regular basis - so I have a standard reply which I hope will help.

When it comes to Clickbank knowledge there are two Warriors whose knowledge really is outstanding - I recommend looking at posts made by them for helpful and above all accurate information:

View Profile: Alexa Smith

View Profile: Harvey.Segal

A very helpful post on product selection (By Alexa Smith) can be found here:

http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post2161932

A useful explanation of what gravity is actually telling you is here:

http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post2495251

And for information from Clickbank for affiliates look here:

Help Center: Affiliate Help Index

I do fair with Clickbank... would like to do better. Even so, my Clickbank numbers are pretty much the same now, or even a little above, as they were a year ago. So, no... I don't think it's dead.

Clickbank is not dead. There are just too many products and too many affiliates. Most of them are just trying ways to make quick cash and end up writing crappy content making crappy websites etc etc = No sales at all.

I'd say that in Clickbank 90% of the products are absolute PLR junk. 8% have high competition that requires good experience to make sales. 2% can be easily sold with less competition (which according to most is "wow" but "i won't take action" kinda stuff).

Requires lots of research to find the products that you could easily sell through your website/blog. I still think making $15K - $30K / month with clickbank products is possible.

YES.... So dead

J/K not dead

Let others think it's dead and you
can continue to use it like lots of
other smart marketers.

Hence everyone is driving me to CPA... Can someone give me a link of a thread discussing a thread of CPA or how does CPA works?..

I want to know how does CPA works because I always hears it here.

I find it hard to makes ANY sales with Clickbank nowadays. Their tracking system is so bad that you can't trust it.

I certainly hope it isn't dead.

...I'm about a week away from releasing my first ever product on ClickBank. I'm a little biased, of course, but this product (EBook) has the chance to be highly successful if I can build the traffic to it.

LONG LIV CB! Haha.

Alexa, great posts on the 'gravity'. Nice explanation as well.

I also hope it is not dead. I am also about to launch a product. I chose CB for the simple fact that there are something like a 100k affiliates.

We are all in this to make money. Having an instant 'potential' army of affiliates is very appealing.

What I think is that other affiliate marketplaces are on the rise. It may take a while before the sheer numbers are close to CB, but the quality and pay structure might be there.

After a few months, placing your product on other marketplaces as well might be a good idea.

Greg

I got 50 affiliates on CB, did they sell anything? Did they bugger. Not one sodding sale.

Still it was a learning experience.

Hey Rob,

How do you know if you got 50 affiliates on CB if they didn't sell anything. I am confused.
Did you have them sign up to a newsletter in order to receive affiliate materials?

Greg

They are 2 different business models and they are both profitable or dead depending on how you play the game.

Clickbank is the ONLY marketplace I use currently to list my main products.

I have a few on PDC as well but yes Clickbank is not dead.

Try your hand at both and see what works for you.

If it isn't dead yet, it is dying. People are moving onto marketing physical products, which are easier sales.

lol! I'm still using clickbank to Earn more than 1,000 dollars.

ClickBank is so dead that a sale happens on ClickBank roughly every 3 seconds.

This means that over $1000 was made by the time I finished typing this message.

I have one of my best Clickbank months (as an affiliate) ever last month so all well on this end!

I just switched from CB checks to direct
deposits, to help CB on their paper bill so they
can live that bit longer

Clickbank is dead to me, I don't know about anyone else.