Let's face it... If you're into internet marketing, or even if you just have a small web presence of some kind then you want to monetize your website in some way. There are many ways of doing this. You can sign-up to Google to get their AdSense ads which will display contextual ads that fit in with the theme and appearance of your website. You can go to various 'affiliate' sites sign-up and get banners and other promotional materials that you can place on your website. All this is great... But what you're really getting is trickle income. That's why many internet marketers turn to ClickBank to try and bolster their incomes. ClickBank is an enormous marketplace of over 6000 products - all digital - and all available for immediate download. But there is a problem with ClickBank and that's in the way that people are meant to interact with it.In effect ClickBank sets itself up as a marketplace. Those with products to sell (vendors) sign-up for an account, add their items to the marketplace and aim to get others (affiliates) to promote their products for them. And this is the real beauty of ClickBank. Almost every product available there offers what can be very lucrative inducements for others to go out and promote the products. This is the whole bases of affiiateships. On average a ClickBank product will sell for some $24 (some are less, some can be a lot more). Typically a vendor will offer some 45% to 70% of this final sale price to any affiliate of theirs who makes a successful sale. Thus on a $24 product you, as an affiliate, might make up to $18. Which really isn't bad at all. Some products cost much more and have much larger affiliate pay-outs. As you can see, promoting ClickBank products can be a very lucrative proposition, indeed. But, the whole ethos of ClickBank is to allow potential affiliates to find a relative small number of products which they can then promote themselves by writing their own sales pages, reviews, or whatever. This still means that you have to publicize and market your information pages about that product. You need to spend the time to write the pages you're creating then you need to write articles (if you want to create an article-based 'buzz' about the product) or you need to spend money on PPC (pay-per-click) advertising. All this takes time and effort on your part. As a result you're generally limited to promoting just a few products at a time. Also, to get real traffic to your pages you need to keep your website at or very near the front page of Google's search results for the keywords that you've targeted. This means that you still have to keep plugging away at the products you're promoting month after month. This process is even more critical for ClickBank products as the standard affiiate cookie is only 30 days. After that the cookie expires and you need all visitors to find the product through your site again. As so many others are also promoting these products you end-up in a major-league rat race of everyone scrambling after the most successful ClickBank products to promote them. ClickBank doesn't help in this either as all their product descriptions are very affiliate-centric. Their business model operates in terms of putting affiliates in touch with vendors. Thus product descriptions and even titles are often stuffed full of information about how good that product is for the affiliates promoting it. This can make finding the product you're looking for very difficult. To be a successful ClickBank affiliate you need to begin concentrating on products lower down the ClickBank pecking order. There's too much competition at the top. But if you pick 'mid-rank' products with fewer affiliates you have less competition and get more bang for your advertising bucks. However, my real recommendation to you would be to not promote ClickBank products by these means at all in the first place. Basically there's too much competition and returns can be small. If I were you I'd look at other affiliate programs for products that you can more easily promote. Especially look out for products that have no expiry date for cookies. These are excellent as it only requires one visit to your site for you to record a potential future sale. But what I'm not saying is - ignore ClickBank. I'm just asking you to re-evaluate your sales strategy. Build your website around a group of products that are related. Write great reviews and articles, get your site known. Maybe even add a few ClickBank products that fit in. Then go to a site that allows you to generate ClickBank product feeds, ClickBank contextual ads and ClickBank searches that allow you to add ClickBank products easily to your Website and Blog. Indeed, the lack of such resources was one reason the Celtnet ClickBank marketplace was developed. This contains images of ClickBank pages as well as hand-edited product descriptions which makes it very easy to find the products you are looking for. In addition you can download ClickBank search boxes for your website or blog as well as Adsense-style contextual ads for your Site (you can define the ClickBank section or subsection of data you want as well as specifying your own keywords). The ads can be chosen in a range of sizes and you can colour and define the ads pretty much any way you chose. As these ads are supplied as an iframe (in-line frame) they can be applied to just about any Website or even Blog. You can also generate your own RSS feed so that streaming data can be made available for your site or Blog. Basically you have all the tools you need to monetize your site with ClickBank products without the hassle of having to market those products individually. If you consider that a purchase from ClickBank brings you dollars and a click from AdSense brings you pennies the econimics of using ClickBank ads on your site begin to start making sense.
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