Clickbank Affiliates: How to Make Money with Clickbank Website Programs

If you are searching Internet to find ways to make money online from your websites and blogs, you will end up seeing hundreds of ways. Some of them may be legit, but most of them will be just scam. Here on Bloggers Passion, I’m just going to share ways that actually helped me make money or I have confidence that they will help my blog readers make money from their websites. Today article is about how one can use Clickbank affiliate program to make money from their websites and blogs (Free as well as self hosted blogs). I myself had some success in making money while selling Clickbank products from my blogs. Now first of all, let me introduce you some basic stuff around this article.
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What is Affiliate Marketing?

With this kind of marketing, we sell other people’s product and get commission for each sale generated through our affiliate link. Suppose I’m promoting a make money online guide through my blog and the cost for that guide is $50. Its vendor is giving away a commission of 50% to its affiliates. So for each sale for this guide though my affiliate link, I will be making $25.

What is Clickbank?

Clickbank is a retail marketplace for selling digital products. They have thousands of ebooks available in various categories. Some of popular categories available in Clickbank marketplace are Arts & Entertainment, Business/Investing, Computers/Internet, Cooking/Foods, Games, Health & Fitness, Parenting, Politics and Software’s & Services etc. Mostly ebooks will be focused around how to fix a particular problem like how to walk your dog, how to lose weight, how to repair your xbox etc.

Ways to Make Money With Clickbank

You can make money in two ways with Clickbank. Firstly you can create your own products and sell them using Clickbank marketplace. You need to create a vendor account in order to list your product into their marketplace. With vendor account, you can set your product pricing and how much you ready to pay to affiliate for selling your product copies. Clickbank team handles most of technical challenges in that case. Suppose your product is sold via an affiliate, Clickbank will automatically credit the decided amount into respective affiliate account and rest will be credited into your account.
Second way to make money with Clickbank is working as an affiliate to promote products that are listed in its marketplace. There can be lots of reasons why you decided to go for second option like you don’t have the expertise to create a killer ebook or you don’t have the time or resources required to manage everything at vendor level. It’s better to go for affiliate option to start making money with Clickbank. So to start making money as affiliate with Clickbank affiliate program, you need to sign up for affiliate account with them.

Sign Up As Affiliate With Clickbank

Go to Clickbank.com website and create an affiliate link by clicking the Sign Up link shown in Affiliates Section. Fill in all required information and click the Submit Button. Once they approve your affiliate account, you are eligible for making money with their affiliate program.

Things to Keep in Mind As An Affiliate

You need to have a website or blog at least to make decent earnings with Clickbank affiliate program. If you don’t have a blog even, start creating one today around the topics you are most interested in and are most knowledgeable about. Once you have a blog running in active mode, go to Clickbank marketplace and choose some products matching your blog content. Suppose I thought of selling Clickbank products on Bloggers Passion, I would mostly look for products related to making money online, blogging and WordPress. Our chances of getting success with products that are not matching our blog theme are very rare. So we should choose products from Clickbank marketplace that are matching our blog niche. Steps that I’m mentioning in this guide will be applicable on stand alone websites, blogs, discussion forums, Squidoo Lenses, Hub Pages, Blogger free blogs (Blogspot), WordPress Based Blogs etc.
Apart from product relevance matching, there are some key factors you should take into consideration while choosing a product to promote on your website and blog. With each Clickbank product there are some statistics mentioned, let me explain them:
Initial $/sale: This is the average amount you will be earning for selling a product.
Avg $/sale: This is the average percentage you will make selling a product in lifetime.
Avg Rebill Total: This applies to those products only where vendor charge its customers recurring amount. Recurring payment systems are generally seen in membership and subscription based websites. So this is the amount you will be making on products that are re-billed.
Avg %/rebill: Again, this applies to products where some recurring charged occurs. So this is the average percentage you will be making on re-billed products only.
Grav: Gravity indicates numbers related to product popularity in Clickbank marketplace. Products with high gravity are those that are most promoted and where affiliates are making lots of income. But higher gravity means lots of competition for that keyword.
So I would suggest you to choose those products only:

1. That are related to your website/blog niche
2. You end up making $20 at least per sale
3. Go for products having gravity in the range of 50 to 120 only
4. Go for products that offers at least 50% commission. There are some products available in Clickbank marketplace that help you 75% commissions even
5. Now its time to look at the products websites you are thinking of promoting. If yourself are not satisfied with their landing pages, it will be difficult for you to convince your website readers to buy those products. You should go for products whose sales copies are well written and you are sure they will help your website readers to solve the problems for whom they are looking for solutions from your website.

So you should go for such products only that match the above shared criteria. Believe me there are lots of products available in this range in Clickbank marketplace and in your website categories.

How to Create HopLinks

By this time you have decided the products you want to sell through your online properties. Now its time to add affiliate links for various products you want to sell. For this, you need to create HopLinks for each product and add them into related articles and prominent positions on your website. To create a Hop Link for a product click on the Promote button as shown below and enter your Nickname in the next window available. Now copy your affiliate link and now you are ready to add this link into your website.

Google does not love thin content affiliate websites. So you should make sure, you are adding high quality content on your website. Apart from this, you should use nofollow attribute and Tiny URL’s etc to hide your affiliate links. Once you have added affiliate links and banners in your websites and blogs, its time to look for ways to bring lots of targeted traffic on your websites so that you can make good sales selling Clickbank products as an affiliate.

How to Promote Clickbank Based Websites

If you have created special websites around Clickbank products, you should make sure you are using seo optimized titles, URL’s and contents within your website pages. Once you have added some articles in the form of reviews and features around the product you are promoting, now its time to look for ways to get traffic to these Clickbank based websites.
On your website, you should write content that gives your website readers some sold reasons to buy those products. Apart from this, links and banners should be easily accessible to your website readers that they can use to buy products of their choice. If there are some offers, testimonials, reviews or money back guarantee (Which is available with most of Clickbank products) available with the product you are selling, please mention that in your website product content copy.
Here I’m sharing some methods one can use to promote their normal and affiliate websites (Clickbank, Amazon, LinkShare etc) and blogs:

1. Paid Advertising

If you have budget, you can try Google Adwords kind of pay per click programs to drive traffic to your affiliate websites. But the negative side to this promotion method is that you may end up losing some money if you are enable to get enough sales from the products you are selling through your website. I would recommend trying paid advertising methods when you have some numbers in hand like how many hops you require to get a sale. And how many clicks on your website will create a single hop. So you need to do all calculations around ROI. If you think paid advertising will help you get more sales. Go for it. But initially at least, I would recommend going for free traffic generation methods I’m sharing below.

2. Article Marketing

Article marketing is such a powerful technique for driving targeted traffic to a website that lots of Internet marketers use it only. To get article marketing to its fullest, we should write some interesting articles around the affiliate products we are selling though our website. I would recommend writing 15-20 articles at least for each product you are thinking of getting sales though your Clickbank based websites. Once you have some articles ready, start publishing them on top 10 article publishing websites. You should write your articles in a way that they actually clicks for your websites links available in article content and Author Bio section. People will not visit your website if they don’t find your articles interesting. You should include seo optimized anchors to link back to your website from article publishing websites. Having seo optimized backlinks will help your website rank well in search engines for terms matching your products. Apart from traffic you will be getting from search engines, you will be getting some referral traffic as there will be some user who will be visiting these article websites and will be visiting your website to know more details about the product you are promoting. Most of article websites does not allow affiliate links. So you should include links for your website targeted pages only in ezine publishing websites.

3. Guest Post Submissions

Write some interesting guest post around the products or topics related to your products and get them publish on top blogs matching your products niche. If your targeted products are related to making money online, you should go to blogs like Bloggers Passion to submit your guest post. You should link back to your website product pages with their respective anchor texts in your guest posts. Most of blog owners would allow you addition of one or two links in your guest post body or Author section.

4. Social Bookmarking Submissions

You should submit some interesting pages from your Clickbank based websites on top social bookmarking websites. Some of popular social bookmarking websites where you can submit your website and article pages are Digg.com, Delicious.com, Reddit.com, Google Buzz, HumSurfer.com etc.

5. Social Media Websites

Spread words about the product you are selling on popular social media websites including Facebook, Twitter, Google +1 etc. Create a strong Fan Page on Facebook and use that to drive additional traffic to targeted pages on your website.

6. Do Some Blog Commenting

Create a list of some blogs in your niche that are matching with your product categories and start writing comments on them with a link to your website. Blog commenting will help you get some targeted traffic to your website and will also give you additional links that you require to get your website into top 10 listing on Google and other search engines for their targeted terms.

7. Discussion Forums

Find some discussion forums matching your website niche and share your knowledge by answering the thread you are most knowledgeable about. Please don’t spam discussion forums with self-promotional links. With most of discussion forums, you are allowed to add few links in the signature sections.

Keep Track of Your Clickbank Earnings

After doing all the hard work, its time to check your Clickbank earnings. You should check how much money you are actually able to make from your websites and blogs though Clickbank products sales on weekly basis type. You should keep track of number of hops you are able to get for various products and look at ways to maximize them. I myself had some success selling 4-5 Clickbank products. When I was active on Clickbank, was able to make $100 plus dollar every month. I never gave too much effort for the promotion of Clickbank products. But I have seen lots of Internet marketers are bloggers are making their living through Clickbank products sales only.
How is your experience with Clickbank and what killer techniques you are using to get sales for your Clickbank products, please share your success stories in the comments section below so that other members in blogosphere can also help and motivation from you?


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How To Make Money Online With ClickBank

ClickBank is the world's largest affiliate marketplace for digital products, and a hot opportunity for you to make money online. You can find anything from ebooks to software and membership sites to promote, and earn up to 75% commissions. In fact, there are over 20,000 digital products being sold in ClickBank at the moment.

Step 1: Signup with ClickBank for free

Whether you want to sell products on ClickBank or promote ClickBank products as an affiliate, the signup process is free. All you need to do is choose your "nickname", which is your user name, and complete the registration.

ClickBank will then send you the login details, and you can login to your account to update more information, especially how you want to get paid. Currently, US affiliates can get paid via check or ACH transfer directly to their bank account.

Step 2: Find profitable products to promote

Not all products are created equal. Some just sell better than others, regardless of the quality or price. Therefore, it's very important that you select only the proven products to promote as an affiliate.

ClickBank makes this easy for you to do, since they publish product stats openly. By looking at the metrics, you can easily see which products sell better and how much you earn as an affiliate. You can also see which products pay recurring commissions, which means you also get paid months down the road.

Step 3: Create a systematic promotion strategy

The last thing you should do is just spam everyone around you with your ClickBank affiliate link. Affiliate marketing is personal, spamming is just annoying.

Sure, if you spam one million people you can probably make a sale. But you can just as easily make one sale from just ten people. The trick is knowing how to create a system where you can track what works and what does not.

Then, you need to look for existing sources of traffic that you can tap into. Sure you can create traffic yourself, but that will take time. Instead, you can make use of social media sites that have huge traffic and users in the millions.

You'll need to engage the right user, and present the user with some information on the product. Only then do you send him the affiliate link. Plus, if you use viral marketing tools from LinkTrackr.com you can also get the user to recommend your affiliate link to other users. This can easily get you more traffic, and more sales.

ClickBank is a money-maker, and thousands have profited from it. You can too, if you master the basics and take it one step at a time.

Gobala Krishnan has been promoting affiliate products for over 8 years. He also runs an extremely user-friendly link cloaking software you can use to promote ClickBank products at http://www.linktrackr.com

 

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Clickbank Vendors: Two Simple Ways You Can Help Affiliates Protect Their Sales.

1) How To Remove Your Affiliates Clickbank Id From The URL.

As a merchant, you can hide the clickbank affiliate id for your affiliates by creating a redirect page and pointing your default hoplink to the redirect. 

When some uses your hoplink http://hop.clickbank.net/?affid/yourid, the cookie will be set and they will land on your redirect page. 

The redirect will send them to your domain without adding the ?hop= information. The cookie is already set and does not need to be shown. 

This will help protect your affiliates commission and give your site a more professional appearance. 

In the code examples below, you will need to replace [ and ] with less then and greater then symbols.

Create a file called hoplink.php 

Add the following code 

[?php 
header("Location: http://www.yourdomain.com"); 
exit; 
?] 

Upload hoplink.php to the root of your domain.

Login into your clickbank account.
Click to view or modify your account settings.
Click to modify your account. 

Under Business Info, change the url of your website to be http://www.yourdomain.com/hoplink.php

Click on save changes.

Now when a visitor clicks on a hoplink, it appears that they came directly to your site and the affiliate's id is no longer exposed. For this technique to be completely effective, the affiliate needs to cloak the hoplink as well.


2) How to Cloak Your Clickbank Vendor Id Using PHP 

Most clickbank affiliate theft is caused by the fact that is easy to rebuild a hoplink and get credit for your own purchase. All you really need to know is the vendor id.

All you have to do is look at the source code of a typical sales link and you will see the vendor id.

For example:
http://www.clickbank.net/sell.cgi?YourVendorId/1/Product_Description

To rebuild the hoplink you simply use
http://hop.clickbank.net/?AffiliatesId/YourVendorId

Now when you click on the hoplink and the original affiliate has lost a sale.

As you can see, without knowing the vendor id, you can not successfully rebuild the hoplink and the affiliates sale would be protected.

Below is an example of how to do this in PHP.

You will need to replace [ and ] with less then and greater then symbols. 

Create a file called order.php 

Add the following code 

[?php 

header("Location: http://www.clickbank.net/sell.cgi?YourVendorId/1/Product_Description"); 
exit; 
?] 

Just replace YourVendorID with your Clickbank ID 
Replace 1 with your product number 
Replace Product_Description with your Product Description 

Upload order.php into the same folder as your sales page.

Now link to order.php instead of using the raw order link and your Vendor ID is never exposed 

This will make it very hard for affiliates to rob other affiliates of their commissions.

I encourage you to make these simple changes to protect the commissions of your affiliates.

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A Beginner's Guide to Clickbank

Clickbank can be a very lucrative affiliate program because the commissions are incredibly high. Some are as high as 75%.
Because the products are digital (ebooks, digital products, etc.), there are no distribution costs, so that's one reason Clickbank can afford to offer such a large share to their affiliates.
Below I'm going to show you how to get started with Clickbank and understand a bit more about the interface so you can get the most out of your efforts.

How to Join ClickBank

Joining is easy and it's free. Just click the Sign-Up link from the top of the Clickbank homepage. Once your account has been created, you can begin promoting the products on your website.

Searching For Products to Promote

To search for products, click the Marketplace link at the top of the ClickBank homepage.

From here, you can search for products by either category or the search feature.
So for example if you search for "stocks", this is one of the products that appears in the results...


To view the sales page of the product, just click the red title.
This particular product pays $11.78 per sale on average. Now, it's important to note that the amount you earn per sale may not match that number exactly due to upsells, sales tax, chargebacks, etc. However, this will give you an idea of what you can earn.
Check out the Stats information at the bottom of the result. This provides more details about what you can earn.
Notice the Initial $/sale stat is much lower than the average $/sale. This particular vendor offers several products, which is why the initial sale stat and average sale prices differ.
Average %/sale means the average commission for this product is 45% per sale.
The Avg Rebill Total of $8.09, indicates this is a recurring billing product and that's the average amount the affiliate earns. So not only can you earn for one sale, but you will also earn for any customer re-bills. This is how your income can really add up over time.

Obtaining Your Affiliate Link (Hoplink)

Once you decide on a product you want to promote, click the green Promote button alongside the listing. You will be presented with this form.

In the Account Nickname box, enter the ClickBank ID you created when you setup your ClickBank account, and add a Tracking ID if you want to keep track of where the sale is coming from.
For example, if you are promoting a specific product in a newsletter, you could use newsOct2012. ClickBank will add this ID to your affiliate URL so you can track how many sales came from this specific link.
So now when you go to the Reporting section at the top of the page, you can view your sales by Tracking ID to see how effective your campaign was.

After you've entered your account nickname and optional tracking ID, click Create and Clickbank will give you the link to promote on your website.

Best Ways to Promote ClickBank

Niche Websites/Blogs
There's no doubt that a niche website is the best place to promote Clickbank products because you can subtly recommend them within your content.
I talk more about how I promote Clickbank in this blog post.
Email
Email marketing is also an effective way of promoting products. Be careful, though. You don't want to continually pitch products to your subscribers. That's not a good strategy.
Just like with your website, you should aim to provide nothing but quality, and promote products on occasion.
Use your list to inform your audience of important site updates, special news and provide exclusive offers. Weave in relevant product links every so often.
Social Media
If you have a large following (especially if it's very niche), you can also make money promoting products via social media.
Just remember, you can turn your followers way off by being overly aggressive with affiliate links. However, a casual, relevant mention here and there is fine.
And you don't even need a website to promote Clickbank products. You can just promote the hoplink I showed you how to create above.
However, I've always found it to be more effective to mention products within articles rather than just promoting affiliate links by themselves.
So instead of just tweeting a link to a product you are promoting, tweet a link that provides a relevant how-to article that includes a link to the product in the copy. That's a much better strategy.
What About Article Marketing?
ClickBank recommends article marketing on their tips page, but I honestly don't think this is a very effective way of marketing today.
Not only has it lost much of its SEO value, but most people who go to article marketing sites are not looking for information, they're marketers looking to get traffic to their own articles.
I'm not saying there is absolutely no value in article marketing, because there may be some -- especially with very tight/defined niches. However, I believe it is an expiring marketing strategy.

Using Banners to Promote The Products

If the product you are promoting has banners you can use, there is usually a link to the affiliate program located at the bottom of the main sales page. This is where you can often find banners for your website.
For example, for my ebook, Niche Website Success, there is a link to the affiliate page at the bottom of the landing page. That's where I provide the code for affiliates to add banners/links into their sites.

Don't Promote Crap!

Because ClickBank has no screening process for the products people can sell, you can run into a lot of low-quality products that were thrown together.
It may be tempting to focus on the amount you will earn per sale, but don't put greed over quality because it will hurt your reputation.
I only promote products that I have personally purchased myself. While the commission amount is something I pay attention to, the actual quality of the product comes first.

Selling Your Own Digital Goods on ClickBank

Clickbank makes it incredibly easy to sell your own products. So if you've been thinking of creating an ebook, for example, you can use Clickbank as the vendor.
All you do is upload your product to your website, create your sales page and sign up to be a vendor. The cost is a one-time fee of $49 and they take 7% of every sale you make.
You can set your price and choose what percentage you want to offer for your affiliates. Once your product is live in the Clickbank marketplace, your affiliate links are automatically created for you.

eJunkie is another egoods marketplace that you also may want to consider. I believe Clickbank has the better overall affiliate system, but eJunkie lets you create discount codes and does not take any money per sale. However, they do charge $5/month. So eJunkie and Clickbank both have their pluses and minuses.

How to Create an eBook

If you want to learn how to create an ebook in Microsoft Word and upload it to your website for selling, check out the video below.

Creating eBook Covers

I create my ebook covers with Photoshop using a program called Cover Action Pro. However, if you don't have Photoshop, there's an easier and free way to create them using MyeCoverMaker.

Creating Sales Pages for Your eBook

If you're a WordPress user, there are some pretty cool plugins out there to help you create stylish landing pages to sell your product.
OptimizePress is a quite popular, and it was specifically designed to create sales pages and increase conversions. I've never used this plugin, but plan on trying it out for future projects.
CopyBlogger Media has a plugin called Premise. It allows you to create a landing page on your WordPress site, and you can customize it with email sign-up forms, order buttons and more.
I use this plugin for my WP Starter Tips.

Clickbank is Not a Scam

I've heard people say that Clickbank is a scam because they don't ever make any money, but here's the deal. No matter what program you join, it takes work to convert your traffic into sales.
I have been an affiliate for Clickbank since 2000 and have never had any problems getting my check. They pay every month like clockwork and it goes directly into my checking account.

In Summary

I hope this was a helpful overview for those of you who are new to Clickbank. It's by no means a get-rich-quick program. You need targeted traffic to convert sales, and always promote products you know, like and trust.

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Check out my guide Niche Website Success. It provides a comprehensive overview of how to make money with a content niche website.

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