How to Make Money on Clickbank
This is going to be a very beginner level and very strategic overview, not discussing a lot of specifics about things that you can actually do to go out and make money. It’s going to be more about getting things set up properly and having the right mindset.
What is Clickbank
First of all what is clickbank? Clickbank is an online marketplace that focuses mainly on selling courses software and other digital products such as ebooks. While it’s not perfect it can be a great place to make money online. They have many products in their marketplace that are good quality and pay an affiliate commission on each sale.
With clickbank there are many paths to monetize your blog or website or youtube channel or other online relationships that you may have. This guide is not about selling clickbank products directly, not about being a vendor on clickbank but rather how to promote other people’s products as an affiliate and make money via commissions. For More
Why Use Clickbank
So why would you want to use clickbank? Well clickbank may be a good option if you’re looking for products in certain niches. Two of the biggest niches on clickbank are weight loss and internet marketing. Internet marketing is really the only one promoted here and there are a ton of other niches on clickbank but very few of them have the same depth of products and the same quality of products as health and fitness, weight loss and internet marketing.
How to Get Started
Setting Your Strategy
The best method of making money is going to depend on what you’re comfortable with, what marketing tactics you like and what you’re good at. Personally most of the traffic sent to affiliate offers comes from search engines such as google and youtube through SEO and content creation.
Creating Your Account
On the clickbank homepage, click on sign up to create an account. After confirming via email, you’ll be able to start looking at the marketplace.
Using the Marketplace
Choosing Quality Products
Once you’re signed in you’ll have a top menu at the very top of the screen with a marketplace option. The best way to make money with clickbank really is to promote. Affiliate products that you actually use and would recommend to a friend. So ignoring the fact that there’s a commission. Would you recommend this product to a friend. Who you want to see succeed at whatever it is they’re using it for. If not it’s probably not a good product to promote. It also helps if the products are in demand and not oversaturated and you always want to look for. Something with a low refund rate because otherwise you’re going to be wasting your time. Making sales and there’s just going to be a lot of refunds.
Navigating the Marketplace
In order to find a variety of products just sign into clickbank and go to the marketplace. Once you’re there you’ll see a category menu. You can click on each of the triangles to open it up. And see the sub menus or you can just click on the. Name and it’ll take you to all the products in that category. Focusing on e business and e marketing, once you click on a category it opens up in a menu. From there you can sort the results in different ways by which ones are making the most money. By the ones that have the highest commission rates and also by something called gravity.
Understanding Clickbank Gravity
Gravity on clickbank is a measurement of how many affiliates are successfully earning income using that product. Generally you don’t want something with super high gravity because that means it’s going to be very competitive. But you do want something that doesn’t have a gravity of zero. Because if it has a gravity of zero or a really low gravity that means that no one or almost no one is making money with it.
How to Get Affiliate Links
Finding Your Links
Once you find a product that you like — hopefully something that you’ve actually purchased and used — you can get your affiliate links. The neat thing about clickbank is that a lot of products you don’t actually have to apply to promote. Some of them you do but a lot of them you just need to find them in the marketplace listing.
Creating Tracking Links
Click on the promote button and it’ll open a pop-up where you can copy a link that will be your affiliate link. You can also create special tracking links so that you can have different links in different locations on the web and track which ones are getting the most clicks so that you know where to focus your efforts more.
Platform Strategies
Blogging vs YouTube
So how do you get started with affiliate marketing and stand out from the millions of other affiliates? Even though the first few commissions and most subsequent commissions can come via a blog, blogging is actually a very challenging way to get started for most people. If you want to focus on organic traffic and search engine optimization and content creation, starting with a youtube channel is recommended. The reason youtube is recommended is that it’s the second largest search engine in the world after google, which also displays results from youtube.
Leveraging the Algorithm
Youtube is also a content distribution network so when you create content on youtube that’s interesting to people who are on youtube, youtube will actively show your content to those people. It might not do a lot of that right away when you’re brand new, but once you start uploading on a regular basis and prove to youtube’s algorithm that you’re a serious creator, it is going to start showing your content to people who are going to be interested in it. That makes it really easy to get going and develop an audience on youtube.
Closing Advice
Tactical Next Steps
This is not a very tactical overview it’s more about showing the broad strokes of how to get started with clickbank and what to think about as you’re starting out. For more specific step by step guidance. There are resources available on affiliate marketing for beginners that show a step by step process of basically everything that you need to do to set it up. As well as a whole series on how to set up an affiliate marketing sales funnel.
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