Getting clicks but never any conversions?

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Hey,

I am new to affiliate marketing and I was wondering why I am not earning a penny even though overall I have 700 clicks on an affiliate link. I get around 40 clicks per day but none have never converted yet.

How long do you think it will take? Or is there something wrong?

Thanks.
#clicks #conversions
  • Profile picture of the author Eddie Titan
    How are you getting the traffic?

    Is it targeted? How does your website look? Does it have good copy?

    Without providing us with more information we can't really answer you.
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  • Profile picture of the author Kal Sallam
    Well I am assuming that you are just driving random traffic to your offer?

    You must be driving "Laser Targeted" Traffic to your offers to

    Increase your odds of conversion.

    Relevancy is the key here my friend.

    Hope that helps.


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  • Profile picture of the author Kal Sallam
    Well I am assuming that you are just driving random traffic to your offer?

    You must be driving "Laser Targeted" Traffic to your offers to

    Increase your odds of conversion.

    Relevancy is the key here my friend.

    Hope that helps.


    Kal....
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  • Profile picture of the author IsayHey
    Hey,

    Not sure if this is allowed but here is my site - Fiverr Clone Scripts

    The traffic is coming from Google actually, from a range of different searches and keywords, so the traffic should convert.

    Im not sure whats wrong?
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  • Profile picture of the author IMSince2003
    With many offers and a decent pre-sell, some offers will only convert at maybe 1%. You need thousands and thousands of clicks to start getting an idea if a campaign is really working. Also, get the pre-sell wrong and you can forget about conversions.
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  • Profile picture of the author DireStraits
    Pretty much impossible to say right now without any further information.

    - Is the product in demand, is it any good (have you tried it?), can you imagine yourself buying and being happy with it?

    - From where is your traffic derived?

    - How are you generating said traffic?

    - Are you pre-selling at all, or "direct linking"?

    - Are you building a mailing list? You usually have to build trust (through repeated contact, over time) with prospective customers before you can sell to them effectively.

    Etc., etc., etc.

    Some of these questions might sound stupid, but they simply need to be answered if anyone is going to build up a picture of where you're going wrong and what you need to be doing.

    More info, please.
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  • Profile picture of the author JustVisiting
    If it were my site I would have ONE sticky post on the index page. You need ONE good sales letter not lots of posts.

    Cheers

    Paul

    ***EDIT: See my Post #10 ***
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  • Profile picture of the author Claude5670
    Are you monitoring your click through rate?

    Right away I can suggest quite a few changes but, you will not know if those changes are doing any good if you are not monitoring your CTR

    Also what page are you sending your traffic to?

    Your top-five countdown would be a better page then your homepage to send traffic to although I would definitely add some images of the product this has increased my CTR by 18% in most cases and over 50% of those click the image.

    (a video review even better)

    Also bullet point of benefits for each Scripps would definitely be nice.
    this will help someone make a quick decision
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    • Profile picture of the author IsayHey
      Originally Posted by Claude5670 View Post

      Are you monitoring your click through rate?

      Right away I can suggest quite a few changes but, you will not know if those changes are doing any good if you are not monitoring your CTR

      Also what page are you sending your traffic to?

      Your top-five countdown would be a better page then your homepage to send traffic to although I would definitely add some images of the product this has increased my CTR by 18% in most cases and over 50% of those click the image.

      (a video review even better)

      Also bullet point of benefits for each Scripps would definitely be nice.
      this will help someone make a quick decision
      Hey,

      Thanks alot for the idea's, I plan on revising the top 5 list, hopefully this should increase the CTR rate.

      The top 5 does tend to get more traffic because alot of people are looking for this, it also has alot of keywords inside therefore it works well. Hopefully the new countdown should increase sales.

      Thanks again.
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  • Profile picture of the author DireStraits
    Hey again ...

    Sorry, I posted my last reply before seeing your follow-up.

    I've looked at your site and see a few issues:

    (1) It's really generically bloggy. Now, I'm not saying this alone will necessarily prevent you from making sales, but I tend to immediately associate such affiliate blogs - based on initial appearances alone, I'm afraid - with spam, and I'm quick to leave. There's too much "going on", no logical order to the thing, and nothing really stands out that should. What's with the "tags", unhelpful "categories" and "comments" widgets? And why are you linking to other sites that aren't a smidgen of interest to anyone looking for Fiverr clone scripts (yes, I know you're doing it for backlinks, but stop it; it's pointless, unnecessary, and damaging)?

    (2) You don't appear to have a proper, prominent pre-sell page for the product(s) you're promoting, and you're not building a mailing list so haven't a hope in hell of ever attracting any return traffic to your site or building any kind of trustful relationship with your visitors.

    (3) Either you're promoting the Fiverr product or you're fishing for AdSense clicks. Make a decision and then lose the AdSense. Sure, it's not that prominent, but you're still bound to send some people away to the wrong place.

    (4) Your articles are clearly written first and foremost for the search-engines' benefit, I think. You appear to have written about almost anything distantly related to Fiverr scripts and shoved your keywords in them, but they offer me no value. They might, by some fluke, pull me in from Google, but once I'm on your site I'm not reading them and I'd wager a bet that neither are the vast majority of your visitors.

    Clearly a few people are coming to your site with the hope of finding a Fiverr clone script. But having gleaned little of use from your site, they're quickly leaving via one of your affiliate links which at least looks somewhat relevant and potentially of interest. But then they're not buying it for whatever reason ... perhaps because they've seen it all before and nothing they've subsequently read on your site about that script has "sealed the deal" for them. And nothing you can write is likely to seal the deal for them until they know you're an expert on the topic of Fiverr clone scripts and will take your word as gospel.

    There's more, but one step at a time ...
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  • Profile picture of the author Miguelito203
    Originally Posted by IsayHey View Post

    Hey,

    I am new to affiliate marketing and I was wondering why I am not earning a penny even though overall I have 700 clicks on an affiliate link. I get around 40 clicks per day but none have never converted yet.

    How long do you think it will take? Or is there something wrong?

    Thanks.
    Yeah, there could be a number of things wrong. It could be that you are not connecting with your audience and don't come across as believable. It could be that you are targeting the wrong keywords. You should be going for keywords at the end of the buying cycle. It could be your page layout and how you have stuff situated. It could be that the product you are promoting is not closely enough related to what you are trying to promote. It could be that the merchant page sucks and doesn't convert that well. It could be all of the above or a combination thereof.

    Joey
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  • It all comes down to 2 things. Traffic and conversions. The two are closely related though because your conversions will be directly effected by the quality of your traffic.
    Use Google analytics to monitor where your traffic is coming from.
    The more targeted the better. If people want what you are offering them, the conversions will take care of themselves.
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  • Profile picture of the author IsayHey
    I made the most relevant and most converting article stickied.

    DireStraits, thanks for the information but I don't agree with everything that you are saying. Although some of it is logical! I also have a sign up page so that means I am collecting emails from people.

    I have made some topics stickied so that means the best, and most relevant posts are at the top. Im not sure what else to do about the business of the site. I don't write solely for keywords, in most articles they are natural.

    Personally I think the categories are helpful? How could I make them better?

    Thanks.
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  • It all comes down to 2 things. Traffic and conversions. The two are closely related though because your conversions will be directly effected by the quality of your traffic.
    Use Google analytics to monitor where your traffic is coming from.
    The more targeted the better. If people want what you are offering them, the conversions will take care of themselves.
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  • Profile picture of the author DireStraits
    As an addition to my above post, IsayHey, I honestly think you'd stand a far better chance of making sales on this site if you were to simply send your visitors straight to a simple side-by-side comparison table of each Fiverr product for which you're an affiliate.

    Not saying you should do this, just sort of trying to draw your attention to the fact that you need to prominently display something of immediate relevance and usefulness, no matter how basic or commonplace that may be. That would at least offer some immediate value. People already searching specifically for a Fiverr clone script know what it's supposed to do, they just want to know how well each one successfully emulates and potentially builds on the real thing. Hence a comparison of features/functionality, or something of the sort, in an easy-to-digest format.
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  • Profile picture of the author Bruce NewMedia
    Many issues on your page...but one thing just jumps out at me:

    Why do I want a Fiver Clone Script?...what does it DO FOR ME?

    You assume way too much on this page, and there is no direction, no
    focus. Just a pretty, and forgettable blog page.
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    Bruce
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  • product you choose there is not perfect by the cost value so you can change the product and at the place of that affilate link you place affilated ad which gives you the clicks and amount on each clicks.becoz that ur site hot area.
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