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Can I send Youtube visitors directly to a Clickbank Offer?

by nik0 Banned
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Or do I need to send them to my money site first?

I heard that it can help in rankings of a Youtube video when the link go's out to a domain that's relevant to your Youtube title.

When you send them over to your money site, do you use a meta redirect or cloaking script to send them directly to the Clickbank page so that you don't lose in terms of conversions?

Is it wise to setup multiple Youtube accounts or is that risky as then they might still ban the whole thing cause of the IP or do you go as far as making the account from a unique IP each time?

For a start I plan to launch 30 or so video's in 30 different niches and like to expand to 100's in case it turns out profitable.
#clickbank #directly #offer #send #visitors #youtube
  • Profile picture of the author fergab
    you can create youtube videos as many as you want. in fact it will help you more to promote more offers with dirrent accounts apply different strategies in your every account to know which strategies are working well. but before doing anything with your account first read the terms and conditions first as you don't violate the youtube
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  • Profile picture of the author nicholasb
    it wouldnt be very wise, youd be leaving massive amounts of money on the table for affiliates like me.. it takes a few extra hours to setup your own lead capture and follow up sequence that can quadruple what you make
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    • Profile picture of the author 1stargeneral
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      Originally Posted by nicholasb View Post

      it wouldnt be very wise, youd be leaving massive amounts of money on the table for affiliates like me.. it takes a few extra hours to setup your own lead capture and follow up sequence that can quadruple what you make
      You just said my mind. To have such amount of traffic and leaving to go home without dropping their contact details would be leaving money on the table.
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      • Profile picture of the author heavysm
        If you're working some evergreen markets with tons of products I say create a list with those videos. Use a squeeze page and redirect to an affiliate product that is directly relevant to your video right after the opt-in.

        This way you get the lead to promote to in the future as well as the potential sale upfront from the traffic.

        OR you can direct link to the offer like everyone and their mom has done previously. It's not a new method so you can expect 1 - 3% conversion AT BEST from direct linking.

        Direct linking is a lazy mans game and higher conversion rates do not come from lazy methods.
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        • Profile picture of the author nik0
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          Originally Posted by heavysm View Post

          If you're working some evergreen markets with tons of products I say create a list with those videos. Use a squeeze page and redirect to an affiliate product that is directly relevant to your video right after the opt-in.

          This way you get the lead to promote to in the future as well as the potential sale upfront from the traffic.

          OR you can direct link to the offer like everyone and their mom has done previously. It's not a new method so you can expect 1 - 3% conversion AT BEST from direct linking.

          Direct linking is a lazy mans game and higher conversion rates do not come from lazy methods.
          The niches I looked into thus far and that I have a few video's for created are remedies for acne, tinitus and that kind of crap.

          It's quite specific so not very evergreen I guess, that's why directly linking might perhaps be best in these niches. I know someone who's doing pretty well with direct linking in such niches.

          For evergreen niches like dating and weight loss I have some different plans to build out real sites indeed and then Youtube is just additional supporting traffic besides the paid and organic.
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          • Profile picture of the author heavysm
            Originally Posted by nik0 View Post

            For evergreen niches like dating and weight loss I have some different plans to build out real sites indeed and then Youtube is just additional supporting traffic besides the paid and organic.
            I just see a lot more money to be had with these types of markets since there's such strong demand on a continual basis.

            I'm honestly a bit tired of niche marketing and thinking small. Like for acne i would go with skin care in general and tinnitus I would think of natural health remedies.

            Building the email list and promoting on the backend without relying entirely on front end sales is just stronger in all ways really. Front end sales are the bonus here, not the means end.

            There are marketers killing it from all angles with direct linking and otherwise. Niche marketing in smaller sub-whatevers of larger topics and markets is ok but I feel like we can think a lot bigger here.

            Make sure you don't isolate yourself to clickbank either. There is a wealth of products on other networks people don't touch simply because they're not well known = bank hard and fast since people on youtube do get tired of seeing stuff like h-miracle for hemorrhoid cures lol (products that people promote solely on gravity but only later realize that it's promoted hyper aggressively already by others).

            In that regard I do believe products that are promoted too heavily do face a reduction in sales due to lead exhaustion. It doesn't happen often but I like an assortment of relatively fresh products that others don't know so much about/ haven't really seen yet.

            This is also partially why programs like Empower, MOBE and the like find a plateau in promotion so quickly. Not saying you should or should not touch MMO/IM products either...at this point I'm just thinking out loud
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            • Profile picture of the author nik0
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              There's also a benefit of well known products, as the product titles are often dead easy to rank and can pull in good profits.

              Thats the whole idea behind those small niches, eg: upload a video, rank it, and bank a few hundred dollar a month per video.

              Right now I'm trying to get a piece of the pie on many fronts:

              - Small 20-30 page Amazon sites around one niche
              - Mini Amazon sites as feeder sites for links + traffic
              - Amazon authority models based on a larger niche and more serious approach overall
              - Click bank video's
              - Click bank PLR sites with auto generated sites behind it to rank and cloak visitors
              - Squeeze pages to build lists with paid traffic
              - Affiliate sites for more broad topics like skin care also not a bad idea
              - Massive black hat churn & burn projects
              - My SEO service obvious
              - My new SEO site where I publish results and such, turn it all into case studies really

              Too much hay on my fork perhaps but the plan is to set each up systematically and step by step!

              Last week I put the finishing touch on 20 Amazon sites
              Yesterday I started to source video script writers and video creators.
              Today I completed an authority Amazon site model, that will slowly grow
              Tomorrow the feeder sites will be setup
              After tomorrow the first serious churn & burn project will start
              etc etc.

              We;ll get there
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    • Profile picture of the author nik0
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      Originally Posted by nicholasb View Post

      it wouldnt be very wise, youd be leaving massive amounts of money on the table for affiliates like me.. it takes a few extra hours to setup your own lead capture and follow up sequence that can quadruple what you make
      **** yeah I already forgot about that!
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  • Profile picture of the author fergab
    there are some kind of CPA networks who don't allow the traffic from social networks like youtube or facebook but with the clickbank you can do anything you want create your own mini sites clock the affilate links and send direct traffic to them. it doesn't matter where from you are sending the traffic to your clickbank offers

    there are many services who allow you to cloak the affiliate link for free

    such like aCloaker.com - Affiliate Link Cloaker there are some videos also to understand how to cloak your affiliate link. wish you best of luck
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    • Profile picture of the author nik0
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      Originally Posted by fergab View Post

      there are some kind of CPA networks who don't allow the traffic from social networks like youtube or facebook but with the clickbank you can do anything you want create your own mini sites clock the affilate links and send direct traffic to them. it doesn't matter where from you are sending the traffic to your clickbank offers

      there are many services who allow you to cloak the affiliate link for free

      such like aCloaker.com - Affiliate Link Cloaker there are some videos also to understand how to cloak your affiliate link. wish you best of luck
      I don't worry about Clickbank, I worry about Youtube deleting all my video's one day!

      But thanks for the mention anyway, I thought all those CPA companies were pretty easy on the rules as well, by looking what kind of offers they promote
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  • Profile picture of the author fergab
    if you are a smart guy then you should create landing pages with free offers related to your paid offer, you don't have to create a single affiliate site, just clock the link and put it on your lead capture page when someone will come to your landing page and puts his email to download your free offer, then replace the thank you page to your paid money site, i mean affiliate cloaked link, when he will hit the download button he will be redirected to your affiliate site and free offer will be sent through his email address, in that way you will be making money while building your list and with this method you can also promote the CPA offers who don't allow to promote on social media. i hope this will help some
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    • Profile picture of the author nik0
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      Originally Posted by fergab View Post

      if you are a smart guy then you should create landing pages with free offers related to your paid offer, you don't have to create a single affiliate site, just clock the link and put it on your lead capture page when someone will come to your landing page and puts his email to download your free offer, then replace the thank you page to your paid money site, i mean affiliate cloaked link, when he will hit the download button he will be redirected to your affiliate site and free offer will be sent through his email address, in that way you will be making money while building your list and with this method you can also promote the CPA offers who don't allow to promote on social media. i hope this will help some
      Oh that's a good idea indeed, I have to write this down before I become so stupid to forget it!

      So in simple steps (maybe slighly different then you worded) but easier to execute:

      1) He see's my video on Youtube and clicks the link
      2) Ends up on my landing/squeeze page, enters email
      3) Gets redirected to my cloaked domain instead of thank you page
      4) Instantly ends up on the affiliate site from the vendor as the cloaked domain redirects him there so no thank you page really.
      5) Gets the free report by email and follow up emails with links to the vendor.

      Or I need to find a way to stuff the cookie when he ends up on the lead capture page so that he can see a normal thank you page.

      How does it actually work with cookies on Clickbank? Is my cookie x days valid, or in case the potential custom ends up on Clickbank through someone elses affiliate link then his is valid. I think it's like that right? No x days cookie (which would make the cookie stuffing method a bit less useful).
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  • Profile picture of the author fergab
    i use leadpages for my landing pages if you don't you can also get some landing pages services out there
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  • Profile picture of the author Adie
    You can always do that without any problem. But if you want to build some lst of course you can point them them to your landing page.
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  • Profile picture of the author Phil Gangluff
    Split test it!

    Send half directly to ClickBank and the other half to your site. After a few weeks see which is converting better for you.

    That's the only way you'll know for sure!
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    • Profile picture of the author nik0
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      Originally Posted by Phil Gangluff View Post

      Split test it!

      Send half directly to ClickBank and the other half to your site. After a few weeks see which is converting better for you.

      That's the only way you'll know for sure!
      I think that's what I will do as I don't have 100% faith in my email follow up series, it's just delaying time and when people are buying hungry they might buy through someone else before I'm able to sell them.

      Sometimes it's better to make a fast sale then losing a sale on someone else.
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  • Profile picture of the author Mogaz
    They'll first have to go to your money site from where they'll be redirected to clickbank offer
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  • Profile picture of the author tyronne78
    Yes,you can send YouTube visitors to a clickbank offer,just make sure you cloak your affiliate links with a domain you own and control. One word of caution though,if you're videos aren't informational in nature (they're all just pitches) you could get your account shutdown. I've seen it happen to a lot of people in my niche.
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  • Profile picture of the author DoubleOhDave
    I would also create a Google Plus page for your offer and associate a YouTube channel with that - share your videos publicly and start winning some extra rank in the SERPS.
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  • Profile picture of the author celente
    we are doing very very well with lead pages and VIDEOs once your little subscribers optin.

    VIDEOS are working great, but nicholasb, is right, directly linking on facebook is not as powerful as soft selling them with videos on your list and a funnel. I mean I make my living on facebook and clickbank and nothing works as good. Turning leads is an art, but once you master it, your whole world will change.
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    • Profile picture of the author Gobala Krishnan
      Having your own website or landing page is always the best option..

      But of course as mentioned here, that's just my opinion. You should split test it first. Use a tracking link in your video URL, and have the tracking link split the traffic 50-50 between direct link and landing page.

      Assuming your video is actually getting a lot of views, you should be able to tell which one works best in a very short time.

      Our LinkTrackr software does a great job at split testing for exactly this purpose, but there should also be a good number of decent tools out there for you to try it..

      Hope that helps..
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