What is clickbank and how can I make money from it?

What is clickbank and how can I make money from it?

Clickbank is a bascially a company where people can list their products that affiliates can sell for them.

So say I was selling an ebook entitled "Get the NO1 Rank of Google" but I didnt want to do all the hard work of selling it myself. I would sign up at clickbank and allow their affiliate to sell it for me.

Now would would an affiliate or you want to sell it for me? Well its a great ebook (remember its only an example not a real ebook!) and if you sell it for me I will give you a 75% commission.

So you get to sell a great ebook and keep 75% of the sale price.

But how do you sell my ebook for me?

You get everything you need, you dont even a sales page for the ebook, you dont need to provide a download link for the ebook, all you have to do is promote your affiliate link.

When people click on your affiliate link, they get taken to the product sales pages, they buy from that page and clickbank directs them to the download page. You get 75% commission from the sale and all you did was promote a simple little link.

So can you see how simple it is to make money even when you dont have a product? Thats why so many people promote clickbank affiliate links, in fact some people have even created whole websites just with clickbank products on them, they do nothing except direct people to their website then collect all the commisions when they sell.

So how do you register at Clickbank simple:

To register as an affiliate ( sell other peoples products)

Sign up to sell other peoples products

To register as a publisher (and get other people to sell your product)

Sign up to get people to sell your product

Ok so now back to how you can make money as an affiliate selling other peoples products.

When you sign up as an affiliate you will choose clickbank nickname so lets say for example we use JohnnyB.

You go back to clickbank and choose marketplace, you will see this option at the top right hand side of the homepage beside my account.

Now you will be presented with various options which Im not going to go into great detail about, the main part that concerns you is the "Search the clickbank market place".

You will see an empty search box beside "keywords" this is where you will put the main word for the item you wish to be an affiliate for.

So say JohnnyB wants to promote golfing related products.

He types in Golf and hits go.

So he will now have a list of all the products on Clickbank that he can be an affiliate for.

Under each product their is two choices:

View Pitch Page

and

Create Hoplink

View Pitch Page will show him the page that people will be redirected to when they use his affiliate link. Always click this and take a look at the product sales page, just to see exactly what you are selling.

Creat Hoplink will pop up a box, it will have Clickbank Nickname and Tracking Id. Now Im not going into tracking id, but basically if you want to track your ads you would use this.

For now all you would do is enter your clickbank nickname in the empty box and click submit.

Now you will have another box pop up with your affiliate link.

http://JohnnyBsally69.shopuyd.hop.clickbank.net for example.

But obviousy it will have your clickbank nickname instead of our imaginary boy JohnnyB.

Try out your link and see what happens, it simply takes you to the sales page for that product, and when someone buys using your link, you get the commission.

I might also add that when you are browsing your search results you will see many percentages displayed below each product, the main one that interests you is the first one:

$/sale: $xx.xx this is the amount you will receive as commission when you sell the product.

The figure after that one is the actual percentage of commission is 75% of product price.

So now you know how to go to clickbank, get your affiliate links for lots of products and sell sell sell.

But once you have your affiliate link what do you do?

Well you can use these links in ebooks that you have written, if you write an ebook about weightloss, search clickbank for weightloss, get lots of affiliate links, and put them at the end of your ebook under a page you call resources.

You can use your clickbank affiliate link as your signature in forums.

You can use it in emails you send.

Or you could be clever and set up a whole website just containing your clickbank affiliate links.

Now most ordinary everyday people dont know what a clickbank affiliate link is let alone looks like so they will just click it.

But online marketers, ebook resellers, etc etc do know that its your affiliate link, and quite frankly, they dont want you to get commission from them, so they will just amend your link and add their own nickname or they will go to clickbank and buy the product direct.

So you need to cloak your affiliate links.

Cloak simply means hide the link, so that people dont know where is going to and cant cheat.

There are two free downloads on my website that will do this for you:

Affiliate Link Redirector Free Download


Affiliate Jump Free Download

both are simply and easy to use.

Or you can simply use Tiny URL here:

http://www.tinyurl.com

Tiny url makes a big long affiliate link url into a TINY URL simple.

So you insert your clickbank affiliate url ie. http://johnnyb.shopuyd.hop.clickbank.net
but it would be your link not imaginary boy johhnys.

And click make tiny url

A box pops up with your new tiny url ie. http://tinyurl.com/y75huc

Both links will take the person that clicks it to the same product sales page, but one shows
its a clickbank link and one doesnt.

Well I hope that has helped you understand a little bit more about how you can make money from clickbank without ever having a product of your own !

Sally
http://www.sallys-ebooks.co.uk

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