Frustrated...clickbank

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The source of your traffic makes a different. The "colder" (the less they know about you or the product) the harder it will be to make sales.

Are they from a different traffic-source?

Has anything changed on the product's sales page (introduction of an opt-in/pop-up)?

Those are my initial two questions ... but if your traffic has been converting at 3.3% and has dropped to nothing, over 100 clicks, that does appear to be statistically very significant, in spite of being a small-ish number.

Doing more isn't always productive. There is a good chance you started fishing in a pond that isn't suitable to your niche.

Make sure the keywords you are using are really the ones that produce the right traffic for you.

If you have also changed the product, not every product have the same conversion. Be aware of where you get your traffic from. That is the main key.

I agree: not enough data to reliably show what percent should be converting

I'm beginning to wonder also, I've been affiliate marketing for years, I average 3-4 sales per day through CB, but, ever since the 1st of July, my stats and sales have been pretty strange. 4 sales since the 1st, when I should have had 40-60 by now...

I've noticed this on occasion with CB, I don't care what anybody says, I don't think that their tracking is working correctly 100% of the time. I've noticed far too many "dry spots" over the years and it appears that there is one going on right now...

Hop count is still the same, but no sales...

Just my thoughts...

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I agree about the dry spots but I tend to think it's seasonal. Maybe since it's warm outside everyone isn't sitting in front of their computer? That and the economy with 9.2% unemployment in the US could drive some potential buyers to "let's think about it" kind of decision.

Forum traffic is notorious for lots of looking and little buying. Try adding and ranking for different keywords .. organic increase will normally help you more for the fact they are coming from a search term and not a new thread or post.

Make your own small product and get people to share your product but one of your click bank links on the bottom of your product, before you know it you will be getting more sales..

Sometimes there just seems to be times when promotions seem to go dry. I had a week long stretch where I would still receive as many impressions but no sales but then everything jumped back up. You have to think that there are a lot of influences that will always take into effect (economy, personal troubles, etc). Sometimes the offer seems good but you may have just caught people at the wrong time.

Yeah I think affiliate marketing is a hot / cold kind of thing, everything ultimately revolves around the price of the offer and whats going on in the economy and or their personal lives at the time.

When feeding from several sources, like forum vs organic, I've used a number of techniques. One that comes to mind that takes a bit to set up, but can be quite helpful, is to essentially clone your site.

Make a copy of everything on your site, from the home page down. Put it all in a directory named "f". Change your Forum posts to show the link yourdomain.com/f

Now, every time someone comes to your site from organic traffic, you can see site traffic showing the regular path. Every hit you get in pages in the F folder came from the forums.

To further refine it, if you are using clickbank, you can change the tag you use on your affiliate link. for the organic traffic, use something like youraff.hop.clickbank.com/?tid=org, and for forum use youraff.hop.clickbank.com/?tid=for. This way, you can see where the sales came from on your clickbank revenue report.

If you are promoting a clickbank product, and use both, you can compare the number of clicks into your promo page and the number of sales to see which page is more effective (as a percentage). Given identical copy except for the link, you may find the forums are better, worse, or the same, but in doing so, you can determine if the extra effort of forum marketing is really helping you. I say to look at the percentage, because raw clicks may be less meaningful to you at first. However, don't fall into the trap of using ONLY the percentage...

For example, if you get 1000 clicks into your organic page, 100 click through to the vendor sales page, and you make 30 sales, you have a 30% click to sales percentage and 3% sales from landings at your site for organic. (and 30 sales total).
On the other hand you get 100 clicks from forums, 10 clicks through, and 6 sales, you would have a 60% click to sales percentage for forums and 6% sales from landings, but only 6 sales.

Now, using percentage alone, forums are really helpful because they have twice the sales precentages! However, given the amount of time you spend on forum work, which one is paying more for your time expended? Knowing how much time you put into each will allow you to determine which is more effective for your time.

I have the same thing happening with me too, except adsense. Last month I would be getting clicks everyday or two and the CPC would be around $1. Now I get clicks MUCH farther apart and I'm only getting cents for each click. It's frustrating but I think that working on it more and more will eventually get it back to where it was before; maybe even better.

Yesterday I finally got a sale, then another one today! Glad the two week funk is over now. Thanks everyone.