Earn big with clickbank

What Is Clickbank?

While many people will call Clickbank yet another affiliate network, that’s not all it is. The platform is more of a marketplace for product creators and affiliates to make money together without cumbersome paperwork or agreements.

A Product Marketplace For Affiliates

As an affiliate marketer, you can jump right in, create your unique affiliate links for thousands of products (more on that later) and start pushing traffic right away to earn money. You will also see your earnings in real time.

It’s free to join and there’s no screening process. No cap or complicated metrics. It’s basically a simplified affiliate network, open to anyone that wants to give it a shot.

In case you want to try it out, simply go register on their homepage.

An E-Commerce Platform For Information Product Owners

As a product owner, you can add your product to the database and ClickBank will take care of all the checkout and e-commerce part, as well as offering an affiliate program for it.

This is great if you don’t want to handle the technical part of things but you have to know that the platform will take quite a bit of money off your sales ($1+7.5% of the sales).

That’s why if you start making some serious sales volume, you may want to move out of the platform eventually. But when you get started and only make a few hundred dollars per day, it’s a great help to not have to deal with all the tech stuff.

Pros & Cons Of ClickBank

I really like ClickBank and I think it’s a fantastic place for new affiliate marketers to get started and earn money without the hassle of more advanced affiliate networks. There’s no cap, you don’t need to be approved for 90% of the offers and you can start selling straight away.

Trust me, that’s a huge plus when you get started and have no track record to show to those big networks.

Here’s a short lists of the pros & cons of the platform:

• Pros- Highly paid offers (75% commission is common)
• You can sell in most countries
• Several recurring offers to sell, for ongoing income
• Takes the tech out of the way

Cons- 

• Lots of shitty products & sales pages
• Lots of competition on popular products
• Hard to tell what does well without investing traffic
• High costs associated to the e-commerce platform

How To Pick The Right Product To Promote

One of the best ways to make money on Clickbank is to start as an affiliate, promoting pages that have already been optimized, in order to build your sales funnels.

Much like keyword research for SEO, picking the right product to promote on ClickBank is extremely important. No matter how good you are at promoting, if you push traffic to a sales page that doesn’t sell, you will not make much money.

Direct Linking / Banners

This one is the most common and very often least profitable. The tactic is simple. Find a somewhat related article on your site and slap a banner on the sidebar or in the middle of the article, without any form of preselling the product specifically.

Because the traffic is somewhat related to the offer, some people will convert. However, your EPC (earning per click) will be very low because the product does not come recommended by the author.

In Content Links

In content links are usually in line recommendations that are embedded directly in the text. The recommendation often comes from the voice of the author and if they’ve done a good job building trust throughout the article/post, the conversion rates will be decent.

Reviews

This is one tactic we still use to this day and for good reason: it works!Review traffic is extremely targeted and people landing on your page have a very high chance to buy.

If your review doesn’t look completely biased, there’s a good chance they’ll trust you and click through your link to buy the product.

Building A Value Oriented Media Funnel

All the methods we talked about before tend to work to some extent but they’re usually worn out and overused by everyone in the industry making it very competitive and hard to scale unless you have a site with hundreds and hundreds of reviews.

Plus, nobody links or shares any of the content above because it sells and people tend to hate linking or sharing stuff that sells something to its readers. It’s just the way it is.