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.

This may be new to some of you or old news to others. But, in Google, Yahoo, etc., you can filter results by what is contained in the url of webpages. I know that this doesn’t make much sense right now, but I will do my best to try to explain.

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I’m currently working on an experiment with one of my sites with link building relative to anchor text.  I have seen many methods out there using different strategies.  One thing is for sure, you need to change up your text links in order for backlinks to be “highly” effective.

Normally, you would take your main keyword and spread it out among different sites, blogs, etc.  Then, you would find relevant terms or phrases and add those as anchors.  Mind you, my experiment may be nothing new or groundbreaking.  However, I haven’t seen results from this type of strategy so I decided to post in regards to the specific technique.  It will take a little time to actually track my progress but I will try to give updates.  Here goes:

Choose the keyword that you want to compete with.  Find a keyword tool that will give you actual traffic figures.  Check the average number of searches for your target keyword or phrase for any given month.   (Remember, this is only a test so I have no clue what kind of effect this will have).  If you can, start your link-building with PR6 pages:  Paid or unpaid, directories, blogs, social sites, etc.  Find the very highest searched keyword or phrase relative to the keyword with which you want to rank.  Now, use that top searched keyword as your anchor for these sites.  Next, drop to PR5 pages.  Now, use your chosen keyword as your anchor on the PR5 sites.  With the PR4 sites, you will take the next highest searched relative keyword/phrase and use as an anchor.  You get the idea.  I hope that you can make sense of this. 

Notes:  Add your keywords, in descending order, to your meta keywords in your header.  Be sure to add all keywords in somewhere in your page’s content (naturally).

If any of you have done this before, let me know!

I’ve spoke of this before in other forums and even wrote a guide on Ebay about this.  But, it is a topic that really bothers me. 

We all know the importance of having a trusted page in your arsenal.  I won’t get into the debate (yet) of whether or not PageRank is important.  Forums, Ebay:  You can always find someone selling a domain name that has PageRank; or so it may seem.  Visual PR is completely different than actual.  If you think about purchasing a domain with PR, please be sure to check whether the page is “fake” or not.  Basically, the owner of the domain will redirect the domain to a page with PageRank.  On the next update, the page will show a visual PR matching that of the site of the redirect.  Pretty sneaky and pretty pathetic.  So, some unexpecting buyer will pay top dollar for a domain that has no worth.  Please, check for fake PR before purchasing a domain or even purchasing a link on a page with PR.  Just type in “fake pr checker” into your browser and you will find a good selection.  I will probably be adding one here soon.