19/08: Promoting Clickbank As An Affiliate?

In my last post I mentioned that I was going to talk about the methods I use online to promote some of my affiliate programs. As many marketers start out with Clickbank's range of digital products I am going to reveal the systems and tools I use to earn regular commissions through this well known network.

I do not claim to be a master of Clickbank and don't earn thousands of dollars a day/week/month through their affiliate program, but I do make regular sales of their digital information products. With around 10,000 products on offer, the Clickbank marketplace does offer a huge range of downloads on a wide variety of subjects and yet many people struggle to make any inroads with the program. Some people will tell you that as a beginner, there are better affiliate programs to try than Clickbank and I would agree that it is not as easy to make money as a CB affiliate as some would have you believe.

The following tips may help you to start making some inroads. I have used and still use all of these resources with varying levels of success, many are free although some offer paid upgrade options.

OTO Goldmine - it was this program that quickly started producing some successful results for me, simply by using the free membership option. OTO Goldmine allows you to use a variety of methods to promote packaged software and digital info products sold through the Clickbank network. I use this system for a number of one time offer pages through internet giveaway sites as well as to my mailing list subscribers. (if you want to see it in action you can sign up to any of my newsletters through the free products in the right hand sidebar or check out my post on free listbuilding) You can also incorporate a wide range of offers into your own site's error pages. The system is free and very flexible and there is also a paid upgrade option giving you even more ways to earn Clickbank commissions.

SearchFeast is a Clickbank search engine and as the name implies allows users to incorporate a Clickbank Search feature on any site just by adding a line of code. There is a pop under feature available which enables webmasters to insert a line of code onto any site and provides one more way of directing visitors to the Clickbank marketplace. This will not work for web surfers who disable pop ups in their browsers but is not too intrusive for those who don't and will only appear once in any browser session. i have not been using this for very long so if anyone else has any feedback please speak up.

CBPro Ads is an excellent Clickbank storefront and contectual advertising system. There are both free and paid options and even if you don't have a website of your own you can still use your own storefront as a way to generate more Clickbank sales. The upgraded option offers a host of advertising options for bloggers and webmasters including scrolling and image ads as well as the traditional text ads. A good alternative to PPC ads such as Adsense and can generate regular commissions for those with steady traffic. You can also use category specific storefront pages on a large number of topics from Adsense Tools right through the alphabet to Women's Health so no matter what you blog about there is something for you and your readers. At the time of writing you can see CBPro running ads on this very blog. I am an upgraded member of the site and happy to put my money where my mouth is :-) but is is very inexpensive for a year's pro membership.  

CB Globe is another Clickbank portal and is free to join. The site will give you a free ClickBank portal (see demo CB portal here) to install on any webpage and also offeres a generic Clickbank storefront for those without sites of their own. There are several free Clickbank storefronts but this is about the best I have found in terms of functionality and features at zero cost. You can also ad Clickbank text ads to your sites and choose to display by product category and customize the ads appearance to suit your pages.

I have written several posts on Clickbank since this blog began - just do a search in the right hand sidebar for more Clickbank related posts. There are also some more useful free tools on offer in my sidebar including viral tools to help you grow your own Clickbank footprint. Things like the UltimateSupertip are another way to improve your Clickbank sales virally and with very little cost.The brainchild of Clickbank Expert Harvey Segal, you can rely on it being packed with valuable information.

I have not mentioned PPC campaigns for the simple reason that it is a whole topic on its own. I have run a few moderately successful PPC ads using Clickbank products but competition is often fierce and PPC is not for the fainthearted or inexperienced (I include myself in that category). These ideas may not catapult you to Clickbank riches but they should definitely help you to make some decent additional money. Like everything else you will need to do some promotion but things like OTO Goldmine and the contextual advertising systems are pretty much set and forget.

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If you have used any of these before please let me have your feedback and if you decide to give any a go your thoughts and experiences are always welcomed.

TCH