Using Clickbank & Google Adwords to Make Great Profits

The Biggest Affiliate Scheme of Them All… Clickbank. And why any serious affiliate should consider attending the February 2009  workshop

Every affiliate has probably heard of Clickbank since it is the most heavily promoted affiliate programme out there. It is also the affiliate system that has probably made fortunes for really good affiliates (Super Affiliates). Many of the Get Rich Quick Schemes are based upon the Clickbank model.

Consider the following…

The high commission rates along with sophisticated techniques not known to the vast majority of affiliates worldwide make it possible to use Google Adwords to generate profitable traffic.

In the table below I’ve summarised the number of products in each of the 77 Clickbank sub-categories. You can see there are product groupings to satisfy any affiliate who wants to get involved with Clickbank.

As you can see from the following table most Clickbank products offer very high sales commissions … far far more than most other affiliate programs.

Clickbank is Highly Competitive

The Clickbank marketplace is highly competitive and using the normal way of generating affiliate traffic and sending the traffic to the merchant’s webpage via an affiliate link on the affiliate’s own website is unlikely to provide any level of decent profit.

The people who make lots of money from Clickbank do not go the traditional route as exemplified in this diagram below.

The Secret to Possible Success Using Clickbank

And this assumes you can find/select a potentially profitable product in the first place from the 18,990 on offer.

In the diagram below you will see that the "normal" way of generating affiliate sales takes 3 clicks to reach the BUY page. Each of these 3 clicks provides a reason for the visitor to leave the potential buying process. This ultimately means that only a tiny fraction of the original traffic source actually converts to a sale. In turn this means it is not generally possible to buy traffic using Google Adwords and still make a profit. Refer to my previous article entitled "Affiliates… Good News and Bad News"

Compare this to at least 3 other ways used by those who know better to short circuit the buy process. In one case it is possible to go straight from the PPC click directly to the merchant BUY page. When this is possible (not always the case) this can often be the best way depending upon how well known the product is.

If the single click method is not possible then there are 2 different ways to get to the BUY pages using only 2 clicks. The first way involves the affiliate creating their own web page content and the second case involves using the merchant’s own sales page with the affiliate’s own link built into this page.

The former method involves a work around whereby the normal Clickbank affiliate link is substituted by an alternative Clickbank affiliate link that goes straight to the BUY page.

The second method involves using some special HTML code.

This second method is the easiest and quickest way by far. When this technique is demonstrated (as I will do at the upcoming workshop) and is combined with the software I will also demonstrate it becomes possible to promote as many Clickbank products as you like from the list of 18,990 within hours… not weeks or months it would normally take.

In addition to knowing the above there is another keywords related tactic in making the Clickbank/Google Adwords relationship work to the affiliates advantage and I will also disclose this at the workshop.

When you know that techniques like this are possible it suddenly becomes understandable why some affiliates make lots of money while others make a little or nothing at all.

For workshop attendees I will provide the full data base of Clickbank products in the format which is immediately ready to use in the way described.

This data base will also contain information on popularity of each product, commission, average earnings per sale and more.

Please note… In using advanced techniques like the ones described the techniques should always be judged against any merchants published policies (for example the use of branded terms and logos on websites other than the merchant’s own site) or affiliate network’s conditions since some of the techniques may not be allowed.
It is important in any affiliate program to make sure that the final outcome of a sale or commission is to the direct benefit of the merchant as well as the affiliate.
I have come across schemes that are used to defraud merchants. Many of these schemes involve what is called cookie-stuffing. In these cases the affiliate is literally stealing commissions from merchants.
To the best of my knowledge systems and techniques I show do not in any way disadvantage anyone in the sales chain... in fact through increased sales benefit both the merchant and affiliate.