What are the best ways to promote click bank products?

Thanks for this post Alexa, you are definitely right in saying that your need to know your demographic. What works for one niche might not work for another. Do you focus solely on clickbank sales for income or do you have other streams as well. You seem to really have a solid system for clickbank

I thought the the whole point of affiliate marketing was to create SEO/Google traffic?! But it sounds as if that traffic is not to something to rely upon. If you aren't creating traffic through SEO or Google, how else are you? I cannot even think of another way to generate traffic.

It can. It doesn't have to. People quite often use a subdomain of their site for them.

They get sent to it by clicking on a link, typically ... just as you'd generate traffic to any other page.

No indeed ... this is almost always so. The idea of a pure "squeeze page" is that it has no distractions, no links to other pages, no other content etc. etc. ... people have to click the button to submit their email address, or click the back button or close the window. The idea is to give them no other options. Striclty speaking, the definition of a "squeeze page" is that it's a page with a prominently incentivized opt-in and no other content. (Otherwise it's a type of "opt-in page" but not a "squeeze page".)

It depends how you do it ... I don't actually use squeeze pages any more, myself, in any of my niches (for all the reasons explained here and in the other posts linked to there), but they're a perfectly viable and reasonable system which, of course, countless marketers do use and very successfully. But you can have the opt-in box repeated on every page of a site (in a "sidebar"?), or refer and link in your text to the squeeze-page, with various different internal anchor-texts, or whatever you want.

If you're making the point that pure squeeze pages tend, overall, not to rank as well in Google (partly because of their lack of text) as other pages, I think you're probably right.

I have my opt-in in a sidebar (but not with the text/post explaining/incentivizing it, just with "one line" really) so it's on every page. But on my landing-page (home page) I have a fixed-position "first post" with a few little bullet-points incentivizing the opt-in, and I direct nearly all traffic to that page, the idea being that all visitors see my opt-in first. There are other ways.

Yes, this also. Some of the stuff I send them by email is actually already on my site, and in theory they could have read some of it there in a different form, but that doesn't seem to matter at all (and most of them don't, anyway).

Yes, I agree and sympathize entirely. It's as you say. :rolleyes: :p

The reasons are that many people posting aren't aware of all the alternatives. Some are repeating what they see others say. Some have found a method that works for them and simply announce "This is what you do", perhaps not quite appreciating that there are other options and that some of them may be better.

Ultimately, you can (and should!) test different things and see what works well for you. But (a) this is always easier said than done, of course, and (b) you have to start with something and choose what it's going to be, and decide what to test, too.

Yes, you see a lot of this.

In all my experience and testing (over 6-month periods, testing the responsiveness of the lists built, not just their size!), I learned that squeeze pages build bigger lists and make less money. In every niche. For me.

Part of "learning from a forum" (actually a very big part!) involves more or less "deciding by whom you want to be guided". Not always easy. On the subject of list-building, in my opinion a good question to ask yourself, when reading people's opinions is "Does what's being said here actually rest on the assumption that the biggest list is inevitably and necessarily the best outcome?" If it does, then you might want to be very careful about accepting it unquestioningly, because that's actually a deeply mistaken assumption. In almost all aspects of internet marketing, quality is going to trump quantity, every single time.

They'll find it the same way they'd find your website if you weren't building a list, i.e. "in accordance with whatever your traffic-generation plan is". Whatever sort of website you have, whether it's a blog or not, whether it has a squeeze-page or not, whether you're building a list or not, you need traffic, which means you need a traffic-generation plan. "Ranking in Google" is not a traffic-generation plan. (Well, it can be, and for many people it's their only one; but as far as selling ClickBank products as an affiliate goes - and that's what this thread is about, after all - it's a very poor one. The "horrible combination", almost doomed to total failure, is the combination of using SEO traffic, and promoting IM/MMO products with high gravities and not building a list at all. This is just insane - I almost defy anyone to make any money worth talking about, that way. That's in my opinion, of course!).

Yes, I always build a site within a niche, and then sell multiple ClickBank (and sometimes one or two other) products within that niche.

First-time visitors to my sites are unlikely to notice a ClickBank product being promoted at all, and I sell far more of them, that way.

Three new posts/articles per month (each site), but most visitors don't read many of them anyway, which is fine with me (because I re-use their content, eventually, in my autoresponder email series).

I'm an article marketer, it's true, but I don't particularly want visitors reading the articles on my site (they are all there, though, just not very prominently): the purpose of my niche sites is simply to collect the visitors' email addresses, and all their other content is incidental, by comparison with that objective.

Yes ... they look like "static sites". They're actually updated with new content three times a month each; most visitors wouldn't notice that, though Google does, for what that's worth (which isn't very much, because however well you rank, search-engine traffic is still crap traffic, for ClickBank sales: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post8659398 ).