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I was looking to possibly try out becoming an affiliate at clickbank.com. However, I was wondering if there was any simple way to create a website for my affiliate purposes. I would appreciate any help from somebody who has gone through this as well. Also, I’m looking for this help to be free of charge, so dont just give me an affiliate link to a website builder please. Thank You!

There are some 100,000 clickbank affiliates, many of whom have never made a sale, those who succeed in a big way get ahead using paid advertising or offering incentive bonuses to gain a competitive edge for high paying products.

Owning your own domain name(s) hosted on paid hosting is the professional, long term way to go, but if your just getting your feet wet, you might experiment with free approaches.

The "little guy" can place affiliate links on some free blogging services, I believe Blogger owned by Google is fairly tolerant, and gives you all the adsense income the site earns. I would suggest creating blogs that are lazer focused on one particular topic containing original material, given months it might rank on the search engines for less common search terms. You may have the only article on "selling betty boop collectibles on ebay" so when a few people a month search for that phrase, your page and ebay marketing affiliate links comes up in the search engine.

I am using facebook to do affiliate marketing. I am getting many clicks but no commissions. I am a clickbank affiliate. I am wondering if it could be foul play from clickbank or what. Or what could be working against me? facebook demographics or malwares. I have cloaked my links with bit.ly.

1. Make sure you put your tracking code in correctly. This may result in you seeing no conversions. (Keep in mind not all traffic will be tracked due to javascript off/on, cookies off/on, proxy servers etc.)

2. You should definitely watch your traffic closely and try to determine your non-Adwords conversion rate then compare it to your Adwords traffic conversion.

3. I too am concerned about the quality of traffic from "Content sites". As the owners(publishers) of the content sites are making their daily updates or simply checking out their web sites they *could* be motivated to click your link a few times a hour, day or whatever to increase their monthly checks from Google. Obviously, they would have to keep the volume low or they would easily be detected and removed from the program.

The problem here is that if your links are showing on several hundred content sites, then 1 click per day by each publisher would cost you much $$ and you would see absolutely no sales and the Google AI would not "see" anything wrong with this scenario.

CJ.com and most other affiliate programs are pay for performance, not pay for traffic models. my guess is that eventually Adwords content providers will move this way and Google should only pay publishers for conversions, not clicks. Google has the tools already in place to move to this model so we shall see. Meanwhile be very diligent to measure the quality of your content site traffic.

4. Testing is the only real way to know. Run your campaigns for a week with content search on (Sun-Sat) then a week with content search off(Sun-Sat)and compare the weekly results. The Google reporting tools are just great so you can easily measure the trends,hits, conversions and you should quickly see what’s working.

If you don’t know tech stuff, http://www.buildacouponsite.com is the best tool ever you should use. It helps you to build an affiliate site in minutes!

Good luck,
John

I am interested in joining clickbank.com. Is there anyone out there who has tried it and can give some tips on how to work this program?
It looks like it is pretty legit; but I would like some other opinions.

I assume what you are asking for is an ebook; if so you need to realize that the writer will lose hard earned money because of you effectively stealing from them.

So many people in online business are completely corrupt. Do your own research >:( You’re adding to the scammers out there, man.

I need to know where to get a good website or how to build one, any suggestions?

I suggest you learn from the experts in your selected field by modeling their site designs. Enter your specialty in a search engine, then visit the site that come out high in the search results. those in the organic search result will tend to have original helpful text content that the search engines judges as valuable. While the paid search results at the top and right of google results will tend to show more direct sale pitches, though quality score requirements now force them to include some relevant useful stuff.

Some free blog services allow you to use the blog for marketing, check their TOS.

It’s easiest to get search ranking for a narrow specific niche, it’s even helpful to include the subject in the domain name. To rate free search engine traffic you would need to create original articles on the subject, perhaps 6 for starters, then continue to add new content a coupe of times a week. A site attracting decent traffic might make a little on the side from adsense and banner ads.

Various incentives have been used to entice visitors to buy through your link instead of the competitors. Throwing in a plr book is of marginal value. Providing original valuable bonus material, like a 10 page supplement that fills in the low points of the affiliate product might attract more attention. Some people go a far as offering affiliate buyers support, like configuring websites, reviewing their site design.

Yes you can but it’s getting more difficult.

Squidoo is getting stricter and there are many product categories that they discouraged.
examples:
- pharmaceutical
- weight loss and dieting
- medical cures for yeast infection, snoring, hair loss, augmentation, asthma etc
- getting ex back
- gambling and poker
- ringtone
- credit card debt, cash gifting, envelope stuffing, mortgages, currency trading, Forex,

You can read it here:
http://www.squidoo.com/squiddont

We need to make content-rich Squidoo lens to make them happy. Do not stuff the lens with too many affiliate links.

H OW . TO POST MY CLICKBANK MARKETPLACE LOGINS TO YOHOO . OR LOCATE BLOG TO YAHOO.EXP JEFFPAULCLUB

I suggest you contact clickbank.com they are very helpful i have 6 accounts with them and they have always been great in helping me.

kind regards

sam
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I’ve set up my campaign on google adwords for my product and am getting 20-30 clicks perday on my $15 budget for the last week, but no sales! Everytime I log in to my adwords account I see a lot of clicks, but when I log in to my clickbank account all I see are 0’s. I’m pretty sure i’ve set everything up right and i’m getting clicks, but not making ANY money. Can someone help me?

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is it ok to use a site such as cjb.net or tinyurl to shorten my clickbank affiliate link? kinda confused cuz i remember reading the clickbank FAQ’s saying that the links the people click on it have to be in the excat format or something along those links

Yes it is ok. What you are actually doing is just masking your long affiliate link into a shorter one - you will still get your money. What you can do to test it is put your tinyurl in the search bar and you will see it change automatically to your affiliate link - and also your clickbank id will still be on the clickbank order/payment form (at the bottom of the page people order from)

This does not change your actuall affiliate link in any way - just masks it.

Hope this helps

Can I use my current website where I am currently selling my products?

No! You can simply make an extension page on your website as a landing page to just about any other product… Keeping it as relevant as you can to the rest of your website however.

Check it out:
http://www.pi2formula.com

Thats my website, now heres a page you cannot access from my homepage but rather if i want to promote Wealthy Affiliate say, I can send you from an article etc. to:

http://www.pi2formula.com/joinwealthyaffiliate.htm

email me if you have any questions. Otherwise you could always use free web space like blogger.com, squidoo.com etc.

Hope this helped,
Cheers… Mike