Where to promote Clickbank Products ?

Thanks - I got your second email (but was asleep at the time - I'm in Europe).

I've looked round the 5 sites to which you sent links. I can hardly begin to describe how bad, unsuitable and useless I think they are. What I can't do, of course, is tell you categorically that they never make a sale, nor tell you what their traffic sources are! (I suspect that these are people relying on SEO traffic, and largely automated - autoblogs or nearly autoblogs, but I don't know that).

If it helps/interests you, I can tell you that in 2008 (and again in 2009/10, actually, for a few months, when I did some research on "products with a vendors opt-in on their sales pages"), I had 4 or 5 sites of my own which were (I hope) considerably better than that, but somewhat similar () and I never managed to make a sale at all from them.

Let's get specific ...

One of the sites you sent me has already been removed (this will sometimes happen, if you're foolhardy enough to host a site like that at Blogspot). :rolleyes:

Two of them brought up virus/malware alerts (as crappy autoblogs sometimes do) on my computer, and I didn't exactly linger over those!

The remaining two look like automated nonsense, to me.

I understand that you believe they wouldn't be continuing to "make posts" if they weren't making money, but I don't agree with it - sorry. Again, I know it isn't what you wanted to hear, and again it's only my opinion.

I don't want to make it sound like some sort of challenge along the lines of "try it and prove me wrong".

The problem is that it takes more work than this to do something sensible, instead of something silly. You need to select the products wisely, arrange the site as a "niche site" with a list-building/opt-in landing page to which you can send the traffic, and so on. And to build lists and build relationships: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post6123982

The owners of those sites are trying to do it without building lists. This is going to work badly for them, in my opinion.

Look at all the threads in this forum with titles like "What Do You Wish You'd Known When You Started?" and "What's The One Thing You Wish You'd Known Earlier?" and "If You Were Starting Tomorrow, What Would You Do Differently?". There are a lot of those threads, and their striking commonality is that all the responses from well established Warriors who are earning a living are almost exactly the same: they all say "I'd start building a list on day one".

I'm offering you the observation that there are reasons for that.

I understand that you want it to be relatively quick and easy. I'm not criticising you for that, at all. That was what I wanted, when I started, too. It would be just great (in one sense) if you could throw up garbage sites like that, fill them with semi-automated crap and nonsense, and get people clicking on your hoplinks and actually make some money from it. But in the real world, you just can't.

I think you'd find, if you asked 50 people in this forum who are genuinely making a living by marketing ClickBank products, that there wouldn't be one among the 50 who'll give you a significantly different answer from everything I've said above.

Do you like math? This is a "Venn diagram": the set of people genuinely making a living as affiliate marketers who are using sites like the ones you showed me is "the empty set".

The sites you've shown me look, to me, worse than the kind of sites we often see here when people start a thread asking "What Am I Doing Wrong?", and when you look at their sites, they're doing everything soooooo wrong that it's really difficult to know where to start in replying to them, without offending them. So let me end on this positive note: I'm really pleased that these sites you showed me aren't yours, and I hope and trust you'll come up with something much better!