How to Make Money with Clickbank Affiliate Program (Part 1 of 2)
I have made money online in many ways and by using many different affiliate programs. If you are interested in the fastest and easiest way to make money online then this post is for you. Make money with clickbank affiliate program because I’ve made a lot of money with them, some of my easiest sales have come from them and Clickbank or CB is one of the first affiliate programs I and every other internet marketer started off with.
A little history on “Clickbank“. They were founded in 1998 which is a Huge feat in itself for surviving the dotcom crash a year or two later. They are the #1 site for online digital products or “ebooks”. Their website is one of top websites on the net for the most traffic and visitors daily.
What does Affiliate Mean? Simply means someone who markets other people’s/companies products, services or etc… and gets paid a percentage for their successful efforts.
Why use CB?………almost every country and anyone can join them within a few minutes, ebooks are the easiest to sale and the most demanding product on the internet. Information is the #1 reason why people use the internet. You get paid at least 50% – 75% per sale. I don’t know how much you know about business but that’s almost unheard of for a offline or online business. PROOF you’ll make money and get paid. They have paid out well over 1 Billion Dollars to their clients. A sale is made every 3 seconds and over 26,000 purchases a day.
You can choose how and when you want to be paid. Choose to get paid weekly, direct deposit by check or whatever you choose. There is over 12,000 products to choose from. Lastly you don’t have to worry about getting paid because they act as a third party for handling the transactions for all the products in the clickbank marketplace. You don’t have to rely on the actual owner of the websites to pay you.
Direct linking to the sales pages or CB products is allowed. This means you don’t even need a website but having one will increase your sales ten fold. There is really no other GOOD program online that allows direct linking.
Make sure you read their policies and tos when you join there are a few rules you’ll need to be familiar with. Main one people miss is the part for new CB affiliates before you get paid. Before you get your first check you gotta reach the requirements below
ClickBank will withhold payment of any account balance until the following criteria is met:
- Sales made with 5 or more different credit card numbers; and,
- Sales made with two different payment methods (either Visa, MasterCard, or PayPal). Note: PayPal purchases do not count toward the minimum 5 different credit card numbers.
Don’t worry you’ll reach there criteria easier and faster than you think if you follow what I say and are serious about making money on the internet with Click Bank’s affiliate program.
You can choose to be an affiliate – selling other people’s products. There’s over 12,000 products to choose from so finding something for your niche or interest will be a cinch.
LEARN About becoming a Clickbank Vendor Here – meaning you can create your own digital product and have it included in the CB marketplace. You can make a TON of money quickly making your own product. You should check it out maybe it’ll be something you will be interested in doing in the near future. It’s not nearly unreachable as it may sound.
This will allow people to purchase your own products and also allows the CB affiliates (over 100,000) to sell it for you as well. I have seen a few almost newbies in internet marketing become millionaires from creating one GREAT product within a year or two of being in the internet marketing game.
Start your Journey to Make Money on the Internet with Click Bank
1. Join Clickbank Affiliate program first off if you haven’t joined already click the “Promote Products” Make sure you put some time into thinking of your affiliate ID or username because this will be what shows up in the url for your affiliate link. Choose something professional looking and blend in. People will be able to see your unique affiliate link or ID in the bottom left of their monitor and also will see it at the bottom of the salespage.
Don’t use your real name or something bogus or you will get less sales. A good username would be “secure1″ …… A bad username example would be “clown1″. Another good way to choose a user name is pick something that would make sense for your niche or market.
This is what your affiliate CB link will look like “http://Affiliate.vendor.hop.clickbank.net”
You see the red affiliate part that’s where your username or id will be seen and the vendor part will be for the product you choose. Now you probably understand why it’s important to pick a good nickname/username.
2. Checkout their “marketplace” to look at all the different products you can choose to sell on the internet. Okay now it’s time to get familiar with clickbank before you start to make money with their affiliate program. Once you are in the marketplace You need to think of a “niche” or category….electronics, health & fitness, green energy or etc…. that you want to start promoting or making money from. As a newbie I suggest you pick out a niche or category that you are into or know a lot about. After you choose a category now start looking at the products and you’ll notice a gray strip below each product that looks like this below:
[$/sale: $30.01 | Future $: - | Total $/sale: $30.01 | %/sale: 75.0% | %refd: 70.0% | grav: 250.01]
- 1st section means amount you make as an affiliate per sale
- 2nd I believe means the amount you’ll get paid for a recurring product….don’t pay attention to this right now most are all blank anyways
- 3rd again is total amount per sale you’ll make
- 4th means % amount of the product you’ll make per sale so like this example above you will make 75% percent
- 5th means % amount of sales made by other internet marketers not the owner
- 6th gravity means how many other click bank affiliates are selling that same product.
Now remember if you see high gravity that probably means it’s a HOT product and sales really well but this also means this is a very competitive product as well. I suggest doing this. Pick out just one or two products for now, your choice High gravity, low gravity or choose one in between. Anything below 40 for grav: is low and anything above that number is high.
Now before settling on this product you need to look at the sales page, thoroughly. Ask yourself these questions….. Does it look like a good salespage? Would you purchase this product if you saw this sales page? One note: you need to look at everything thru the eyes of the consumer not necessarily by what you think is good or like, just keep that in mind. I almost forgot choose something that pays good money. At least 25$ a sale I don’t really waste my time with low paying items.
Many gurus online tell clickbank newbies to start off with low gravity products but many of them are really crappy or hard to sell. The way I choose my products is by finding popular products for the moment. Example maybe a brand new product, what are people looking for “right now” like going green products etc…. or products I see or hear that are doing well.
I’ll give you some resources and forums on my next post about good places for CB affiliates to talk about things like that. Make sure you get familiar with clickbank’s affiliate program, their tools and their entire website and on my next post I will continue with “Make Extra Money at Home with Clickbank Affiliate Program Part 2“. You’ll learn about how to make a landing page or website to send traffic to with your click bank affiliate hop links or url and you’ll be one step closer to Make Extra Money on the Computer. I will also give you plenty of resources to get you going and many good places I use myself to get traffic and links.
10 Ways to Get Backlinks to a New Website
There are hundreds of very important things to consider for a new site to be properly SEO optimized for the search engines, especially if you want a good place in the (Serps) free traffic. We all know how important SEO is for your site or blog especially when starting a new one.
You want to make sure it gets the proper launch. One of the most important or The most important thing you need to work on is “Getting Quality Backlinks to your site“. In my opinion the most important to get Higher Pagerank….and pagerank equals a better spot on the (serps) But How do you get backlinks to a new website with little traffic or no traffic?
I am currently on a slow but steady SEO backlink campaign for this fairly new blog.(that’s the way to do it) I have had sites in the past on the very first page of google for the Main Buying Keywords. Sorry no pics, back then I never thought I would get to this point or go public with a blog.
I am going to need some nice PR for this blog especially in this niche. (very competitive niche) and I’m going for the Hardest keywords for this niche. I’ll tell you this, starting off is going to be your hardest and most frustrating time. You have no traffic, no pagerank and you have to get your site’s name out to build credibility.
People aren’t going to just volunteer and give you a backlink from their High pr site, they probably could care less about you and why would they want to help you?….You’re going to be their competition.
Don’t get discouraged. Like many successful Entrepreneurs say “If you don’t have any backlinks, traffic or sales then GO Get Them” be resilient, Never Give Up and Think outside the Box. These ten methods below will also help!
Ten Surefire Ways to Get Backlinks even if you have a Brand New Site with NO Traffic
1. Leave comments on other blogs with dofollow for links (make sure you don’t spam and offer advice or your own opinion & add your link) Finding blogs that are dofollow and with good PR in your niche can be tough, especially when most people think half of all the blogs are dofollow when they actually aren’t. Here’s a inexpensive little tool that I used to get a List of TRUE Dofollow Blogs Blog Comment Demon everyone I have recommended it to have been pleased.
Oh yeah, if the blog has a Top Commentator Plugin it will count every post comment link as a separate page – meaning if you’re on that list, then instead of just getting one backlink from the entire site, you get a backlink for every comment you left for every post. I know some people getting like 100′s or in the 1000′s of backlinks in a very short amount of time. Pretty Sweet!
2. Talk a little smirky or brash about the Big Dogs or your competition on your posts. Don’t overdue it or be disrespectful (you don’t want to make enemies with the Big Dogs) but this does work. How?…. well maybe they hear it from the grapevine, social media or so forth and then guess what, they throw a little post about your wannabe site on their blog and look what you got, a FREE backlink and some new traffic.
3. Write articles with Ezinearticles.com a PR6 site. Very powerful takes a few days before your articles are accepted but who cares it’s FREE and High quality backlinks.
4. Make Squidoo.com lenses a PR7 site about your niche and backlink to your site.
5. Use Hubpages.com a PR6 site and backlink to your site.
6. Make your own websites or blogs and backlink to your own site. Works better than you think.
7. Make posts or Static pages on your site with a HUGE List of, for example (100 best WP plugins make it thorough) also considered as a linkbait. That way people backlink because they want to refer to the list and or they point others to your site and tell them they can find it on your list. Works like a charm!
8. You can always rely on the easiest method and buy backlinks, if you got the money then why not.
9. Comment in forums and make sure you put your website’s link in your signature. Free backlinks and traffic. (2 good ones- (forums.digitalpoint.com) and (warriorforum.com) – great way to make some sales as well!
10. Find other new sites like yours and in similar niches and ask if they want to trade links. Forums are a good place to find people usually they will have section just for that.
Okay, I hope you got some new ideas on how to get backlinks to even a brand new site and of course there are other ways but this is my top ten list.
How to Find Keywords – Buying Words for “Money Traffic”
Keywords are one of the most important parts of SEO and getting organic traffic (free traffic) to your site or blog. Keywords will help make your site a success or a failure. You must use the EXACT words or phrases people are typing and searching for or your site may never be found in the (serps) – free traffic. You will learn the best ways of How to find Keywords and a few good tips.
First off, you need to have laser targeted traffic coming to your site or blog. Why?…..If you have a site about “how to make money online” and you have keywords that are bringing in traffic from people who are looking for “cars” they probably will leave your site right away and never come back.
You need to find people who are putting the keywords about “how to make money online” or you’re site will never succeed. It doesn’t matter what your site or business is about “organic foods” etc…. these are just examples of why keywords are so important to bring in the right traffic.
We covered why keywords are important for serps (free traffic) but if you are using PPC (paid advertising) and are looking for keywords for that type of marketing then Keywords are equally as important!
How to Find Keywords – That Make Money!
Now to find the keywords that will bring you “laser targeted traffic” you can use a Free tool from google. It’s FREE and is good for the beginner or amateur. You can check it out here -> Google keyword tool
I used that when I first got into internet marketing and it was sufficient for awhile. But now, in 2009 competition has gotten fierce online and almost everyone and their grandma are trying to make money online or creating their own blogs and sites.
Guess what?…..they all know about the google keyword tool and they are probably using the same keywords you are so that means its harder to get traffic for those keywords and being on the first page of google results pages will be nearly impossible, unless you got mad seo skills.
Here’s one of my secret keyword tools below I use that I found out about a long time ago from a guru. Let me just add, if you just rely on FREE keyword tools then you won’t ever hit the full potential that your site could have and won’t ever find “Hot buying keywords” cause you will never know about them.
Try it for FREE for a week -> wordtracker this keyword tool will show you keywords that the google keyword tool doesn’t show and it will give a list of “long tailed keywords” – Buying words!.
Long tailed keywords convert to sales so much better than just let’s say “cars” if you throw cars into wordtracker it will popup a HUGE list of keywords that people are searching for, like “1999 ford mustang gt color red in tx” You will find the keywords barely anyone else is using. Less competition equals More Money!
Here is the other great keyword tool I used, you could reach the #1 spot on Google results pages within a week. Very powerful, find keywords and “long tailed keywords” no one else can find. Seo Elite I hope you gained a little more insight on How to find keywords that will bring in Laser targeted traffic and ultimately put more money in your hands!
How to Get Indexed by Google in just a few Days
I had to write a post about this topic because it’s a pretty HOT Topic right now, especially on Twitter and many Big Blogs. Some say submit your site url into google search engines and that is the fastest way to be indexed by them. It makes sense and I even wrote a post about that whole subject recently.
Hey, if Google says to submit your site in their search engine manually then it should be fine and dandy, Right. Haven’t you ever noticed it takes awhile before your site or blog is indexed by google?
Unless you throw a bunch of back links to it, I personally never had a site indexed by Google, Yahoo or MSN in a few days just by submitting it manually into their search engine. I always just thought that was the fastest way and the best way to do it.
The TRUTH about how to get indexed by Google in just a few days!
The Fastest way to be indexed is actually to NEVER SUBMIT your sites to any search engines manually. Yes, it will eventually get indexed by the search engines but the fastest way is to naturally have Google find your site, instead of forcing your site to them. It’s just like your best friend and you meeting their other friends.
You don’t go up to all his or her friends and force yourself to an introduction, you wait until your best friend introduces them to you. I guess that’s how Google works as well. The King would rather be introduced from someone who he already knows.
Find a PR2 site or higher Page rank site and get a backlink from them. If you do this Google, which of course crawls their site at least once a day will find your link……and guess what. You’ll get indexed.
I know my blog for instance isn’t any pagerank yet….hey, my baby was just made not to long ago and I haven’t really spent any time on a back linking mission yet.
But my point was no pagerank but my site gets crawled everyday from Google with a lot of hits. I also add new content to it almost everyday now, as well. A Pagerank 2 site should be good enough or go after a higher pagerank if you are anxious.
If you do this, your site should be indexed within a couple of days. I want to also add, throwing a squidoo lens, Ezines article or Etc… seems to help as well if your still not indexed within a few days. I just wanted to add I learned this (not submitting sites manually to Google) from the seo expert over at the dailyseoblog.
Trust me this method works and I don’t ever submit my sites manually anymore. Even though many people still think that’s the fastest and best way. Test it out yourself and see what works best.
