Money Making Test Update On ClickBank
Money Making Test Update On ClickBank
As regular readers will know I have been doing a test on ClickBank to see if the claims made about making money with the program are a reality for the average blogger.
I must admit that I haven’t got on as well as I had hoped.
One snag I have found:
I have made a total of $64.72 and, as I had requested checks to be sent once over $50, I thought I would receive payment. But this wasn’t to be the case.
My payment was marked as CDR (Customer Distribution Requirement). On checking what this means this is what I found:
Payments are held unless the following criteria are met:
(1) Sales are made with 5 or more different credit card numbers and
(2) Sales are 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.
So if your sales are all with say Visa then you have to wait for your money. They say that this is to stop affiliates using ClickBank to collect rebates (on their own orders) or extending credit to others. I gather that this is only when you start out - at least I hope it is.
Think of that as you will. In fairness it is on their website but, to come across this, I think you would have to one of those very thorough people who wade through a lot of Q&A’s.
Orders Per Click
I’ve found the orders per click so far to be poor. I’ve had over 2,300 clicks but have only made $64.72.
I don’t know how many clicks I’ve actually had in total because, as far as I can see, ClickBank only give stats for 30 days.
I feel I’ve done okay with generating clicks. I’ve averaged about 76 per day, but this hasn’t produced sufficient sales as far as I’m concerned. (I do some programs where I can average 1 in 25 sales, though not of such high amounts dollar wise).
I’ll press on for a few more weeks as the blog, Good Health Source, I started to tie in with ClickBank is beginning to build up steam.
I’ll get back to you with how I eventually get on with ClickBank.
Good luck,
Mike.
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Make Money With ClickBank
I’ve been having a look at ClickBank as a way to make money. I’ve seen it about for ages but have never signed up previously or studied it at any depth.
I can’t form any definite impression of the program as yet, as I only joined a couple of days ago, but many people claim to be making worthwhile money. I’ll experiment with it over the coming few weeks and I’ll let you know how I get on.
At the moment I’m looking at it from an affiliate angle - it’s also possible to sell your own products through ClickBank.
There are thousands of products to choose from which are all listed in their MarketPlace these fall into nine broad categories:
Business to Business, Health & Fitness, Home & Family, Computing and Internet, Money & Employment, Marketing & Ads, Fun & Entertainment, Sports & Recreation, Society & Culture.
These in turn are divided into subcategories to make it easier to find the right products for a particular niche to match your blog or website.
You simply choose the products you want to promote and get what they call a hoplink. This is simply a link with your chosen name included.
Nothing needs approval so you can be up and running with ClickBank in a short period of time.
Promotional material, however, is often in short supply so you may need to create your own. Otherwise it’s necessary to go to the websites, of the chosen products, to see if they have an affiliate link. If they have, there may be banners, ads etc. to use. I found though that some don’t offer this so all you end up with is a link.
As for the products they are a mixed lot and seem to mostly be ezines, courses, information and so on. A few examples:
Download Movies: Over 90 million movies and TV shows! The best place to download online - unlimited TV show downloads. Blogging To The Bank: Create highly profitable blogs that suck in thousands of target visitors every day. How To Be Irresistible To Women: Discover the powerful, step-by-step secrets of how to meet, attract, charm, impress & seduce the kind of woman you’ve always wanted …using techniques that give you immediate results!!Get Paid For Shopping & Eating Out: Make money as a Mystery Shopper and be paid $10 to $125 per assignment.
Commissions vary but can be 60% or even more of the purchase price.
Note that commission is earned from product sales, you are not paid purely for clicks.
Payments are made to affiliates every two weeks. The payout threshold can be as low as $10 - but you have to go into your account and amend the default figure which is set at $100.
My first impressions …
The Good:
Thousands of products, something like 10,000!
Possible to get paid every two weeks.
High commission rates on some products -40%, 50%, 60%+
Instant sign up, no approval needed.
You can start promoting products immediately.
Can be promoted wordwide.
No products to handle personally.
Can be done anonymously.
The Not So Good:
Not always good promotional material available.
Have to make sales to make money.
Some of the products look a bit dodgy, so take care with your choice.
Need traffic to get sales.
I haven’t done any real promoting as yet with ClickBank. All I’ve done so far is place a few ads on a couple of my current blogs.
I’ve got a couple of ideas to try, such as starting a new blog on a defined niche and filling it with associated ClickBank offers. I’ll give it some proper thought and see what I come up with.
I think it’s worth a little experrymentation.
Good luck,
Mike.
How To Get Search Engine Referrals With A New Blog
I was asked: How long does it take before you are likely to get search engine referrals from Google on a new blog?
Answer: 5 days.
Well that’s my experience when starting up a new blog.
However it all depends on several factors but these are what I consider to be the seven essential parts of my formula when starting a new money making blog:
(1) Subject matter (niche) of blog
As I keep saying you’ve got to give people what they want. If it’s popular the subject will be searched for but if it’s obscure it won’t be. Follow the trends, things, subjects that are on the way up and don’t plump for an already overcrowded market.
As an example, purely because I thought she could become popular and there weren’t too many blogs already, I started a new blog on Helen Flanagan. She’s a UK soap star that has just started to get noticed.
Just to clarify the blog was created purely to make money. I don’t even watch the soap, Coronation Street, in which she plays the part of Rosie Webster.
I started the blog on the 19th of July and the first Google referrals were on the 23rd of July.
(2) Use of keywords
In the case of my example I used her name as keywords - obviously - and made sure this was in the title of each post and also in the first sentence.
I also used long tail keywords which I got from a Keywords suggestion Tool - see yesterday’s post as an example.
(3) Use of images
As the niche was about a person this was quite easy. I made sure that the ‘alt’ description was always completed and included chosen keywords within this. It takes longer to get image referrals but, by including them within a post, it is building for future weeks.
(4) You must have inbound links
As I understand it, to get picked up by Google the blog has to have some inbound links. If you have more than one blog this is, of course, easy.
(5) Use Tags
Tags, or labels as Blogger calls them, are essential now when writing a post, some of which should be your chosen keywords.
(6) Write as many posts as possible in the first few days
Again this is something I’ve mentioned previously but the more you write the more keywords you’ll have floating about.
If you have a lot of subject matter perhaps you can break this up into smaller segments (posts) instead of one whopper.
(7) Ping
I always ping every new post though some are done automatically, see Technorati for example. Also sites such as Ping-o-matic will ping several services on your behalf.
You can also add your URL to Google but I don’t bother with this. I also don’t use the websites that say they will submit your blogs etc to lots of search engines. I’ve tried these and frankly they are a waste of effort.
If you do the essentials blogs will get picked up by the search engines but Google is quickest off the mark. The Helen Flanagan blog has been up and running for 21 days and to date I’ve had 783 search engine referrals from Google plus 34 from Yahoo, 16 from AOL, 4 from AltaVista and 1 from Dogpile.
I’m sure that SEO experts may disagree with some of my ’seven essentials’ but what I try to do, with Mike’s Money Making Mission, is to write about what I’ve personally experienced and not theories.
I could have done better, with my newest blog, but my target was to get 1,500 hits in the first month. I’ve just checked and see I’m up to 1466 (2834 with reloads) in 21+ days so that’s okay as far as I’m concerned.
Good luck,
Mike.
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