Affiliate Marketing with Clickbank

Earlier, I spoke briefly about selling a Clickbank product through article marketing. Article marketing is still a highly effective means of promotion and we will incorporate this into this little tutorial as well. Backing up a bit…For the sake of sparing details for this post, I am going to assume that you have already signed up for Clickbank and generally know how to create a hoplink, know html, etc. If you don’t know a thing about Clickbank and want to learn more, visit Steven Blackman’s internet marketing blog and download the Clickbank Guide found on the right side of the page.

If you are a beginner at affiliate marketing, I feel that Clickbank is the best avenue to start with. While all of the products are digital, I believe that there is a product in the Clickbank directory for everyone. You can find e-books and programs anywhere from training your pet iguana to website builders to learning hypnosis. Yes, some of these guides seem far-fetched…yet, they sell. Regardless of what you choose, it is wise to know a lot information about the product you are promoting. If at all possible, I always recommend purchasing the product you are reviewing or recommending so you can give an honest and thorough report. On the other hand, I know that it can become costly to purchase all of these books, software programs, etc. At this point, I would try to take as much from the author’s sales page and put your own twist or personality to it.

New Clickbank Products

Ok, I’m going to give you a strategy that can really work in your favor. This is more of a risk but it can pay off in the long run. Take a look at CB Analytics new products page. This gives you new Clickbank products when they are listed with Clickbank. Take a look through the products. Being brand new, it can be hard to tell if the product will make it or not. This is where the risk lies. However, take a look at the sales pages, the language. Use your best judgement and try to locate a product that you think will sell. Next, create a page related to that product on the following accounts:

• Squidoo
• EzineArticles.com
• Hubpages
• Blogger
• Wordpress
• Gather
• Zimbio

Yes, I know…it already seems overwhelming. But, believe me, it really doesn’t take that long. Now, if you have a good jump on your competition, you can create blog names with the product’s name in the title (ie newproduct.blogspot.com, newproduct.wordpress.com, etc). Just make sure that the product name is in the title somewhere. If you want to take things one step further, purchase a domain and, once again, use the product’s name in the domain (newproductreview.com).

Write an Article for your Clickbank Product

Take some time an write an article (sales pitch/review) for the new Clickbank product. Once you are finished, you have pretty much taken care of all of the blogs listed above. Just change up the article each time to avoid duplicate content and you’re done! Now, if you have purchased a domain for your promotion, make sure that each of your pages link back to your new domain. If you decide not to purchase a domain, I, personally, would link all of your pages back to the Squidoo page. I feel that Squidoo ranks a little better than others with Google and Yahoo. When linking back, make sure you use the product name as the anchor. Finally, make sure that all of your pages contain your hoplink to the product so you don’t leave any sales on the table. After all is complete, consider using social bookmarking towards all of your sites. As long as you have the product name throughout in the title, description, and content, don’t be surprised if you find yourself ranking pretty high for the product you are promoting. Good luck!

Notes: Ezinearticles does not allow affiliate links so be sure to link to your domain or Squidoo. Wordpress has been cracking down on affiliate links also. Just be careful!

If you need further assistance with affiliate marketing, check out my review of the Secret Affiliate Code.

Squidoo and Hubpages…PR7 and PR6 consecutively. Let’s talk about these Web 2.0 collaborations and see how we can use these to our advantage.

Granted, these strategies are not new, but sometimes forgotten and/or undiscovered by new internet marketers. Squidoo & Hubpages are part of the Web 2.0 trend that involve blogging, social networking, podcasts, wikis, etc. These things have been around for quite some time but have really come into focus within the past couple of years. Squidoo & Hubpages kind of fit into the categories of blogging and social networking.

Squidoo’s description of Squidoo:

Squidoo is the world’s most popular site for building free, single pages about your passions. Highlight books, blogs, vids, online shops, or just spread the word about stuff you love. Bonus: you raise money (for you or charity) at the same time. It’s fast, free, and supereasy.

Hubpages description of Hubpages:

Simple to use, 100% free, HubPages allows you to:

• Publish online with easy, non-techie tools
• Be widely read thanks to the heavy internet traffic of HubPages
• Create ongoing royalty opportunities

So, what’s the point?  Use these pages as a marketing tool, a backlink tool, and get visitors to your main site.  Both of these sites have become wise to affiliate links, so you need to point your links to your actual page instead of to an affiliate page (at least with Hubpages).  Put as much content into your pages as possible and use keywords throughout.

Ok, so I’m not going to use my site strictly as an avenue to promote products, but I will give unbiased reviews on products that I have bought, used, and implemented. Yes, this is a site about affiliate marketing, so it is only logical that I attach my ID to the product. Furthermore, the product that I will be talking about today is one that I feel strongly about as far as affiliate marketing success is concerned…

First of all, I just want to say that Norb Czufis, who created Project Wealthy, is brilliant! (Hmm, doesn’t sound unbiased, does it?) But seriously, this is the only product that I will give 100% props to. I can honestly say that Norb’s 11 years of internet marketing experience along with his insight into the workings of the industry, and mindset alone have contributed to much of my success as an affiliate marketer.

Listen, I’m not some guy trying to sell a product using money screenshots or sales statistics so I won’t go there. Am I hiding anything? No. I have not made millions, but I am making more than decent supplemental income with the tactics that have been shown to me by Project Wealthy. I am also not going to go into a sales pitch about the product because I feel I might do it an injustice! Just know this, if you are not making much money with affiliate marketing, this product is for you. The same also applies to the following (does this describe your situation?):

• You are not sure what product(s) to promote
• You haven’t made many or any sales on Clickbank
• You have trouble writing sales letters
• You need help building GREAT landing pages
• You want to be able to market your products with videos
• You haven’t had much success with Article Marketing
• And on, and on, and on…

If you have trouble finding the motivation to become a successful marketer, this product will also help you.  I guarantee that you will find value in Project Wealthy and if you don’t (which I will find hard to believe), you will get your money back.

There are soooo many ways to promote affiliate products, and there are soooo many products to promote. So, where do you actually begin? If you are new to the game, or aren’t actually making money with your current attempts, I’m hoping that I can give you a little push.

Let’s start with a Clickbank product. If you do not have a Clickbank account, go ahead and sign-up for your free account here. Next, we are going to choose our weapon. As you can tell from the title, we are going to market our product with article submission. Article submission will help you Read the rest of this entry »