Affiliate Marketing is marketing products that have been created by someone else. The concept is that you receive a percentage of each product a customer purchases. Companies like Clickbank then handle the purchasing process and credit your account.
There are many affiliate marketing programs and sites, though one of the best affiliate programs is Clickbank. Clickbank products are pretty decent and they provide tools and decent guidelines for marketing their products.
One method of affiliate marketing is advertising. If you have extra cash, you can create an advertising campaign to drive traffic to your products. A less expensive method is article marketing. I have heard so much about article marketing and affiliate marketing with Clickbank products, I decided to give it a shot. Since I don’t have a huge budget for advertising on Google and such, I’ve decided to go about this with article marketing.
After doing some research, I learned some information from the Earnersblog website. I’ve decided to utilize the method detailed at this site with a small tweak.
The purpose of my project is to see if I can leverage article marketing with Clickbank products without spending a dime. I’ve set a goal of $300 over the next thirty days. In this article, I’ll cover the first several steps I’ve taken to get this project up and running. As I see results, I’ll keep you posted. We should then have a proven method for making some extra money affiliate marketing using Clickbank products and article marketing.
Step One: Become a Clickbank Affiliate
First, get your Clickbank account. It’s a pretty simple process and it’s free. Once you have your account created, go to the Marketplace to look for Clickbank products you feel comfortable promoting. I can’t stress how important it is to promote products you are comfortable with. Look for Clickbank products that have some credibility. For instance, if someone marketing a product has been covered on MSN, that’s credibility.
Step Two: Select Clickbank Affiliate Products
Once you have signed up for your account and visited the Marketplace, there are several indicators for you to review. You want to focus closely on how much you will make on each sale and how much “gravity” the product has. Make sure you select a product with high “gravity”. The higher the gravity, the more sales affiliate marketers are making.
I selected two products to begin with. Ultimately, I’d like to select ten products and write two articles per product. Make sure you promote ethical products. Period. Just like you have searched for an answer that’s not a rip-off, you want to make sure you’re not promoting the rip-off of others. If you can, try the product yourself to provide a review based on factual information and your honest experience with the product.
Step Three: Getting Your Clickbank HopLink
A hoplink is a web address that identifies your Clickbank affiliate account. The only way for you to get paid is via your hoplink. Once you decide to promote a product, select “promote” on the Clickbank screen. Enter your account nickname and a tracking ID if you’d like. Once you have completed this form, get your hoplink. It’s a good idea to paste your hoplink into Notepad or some other text based application. This is very important because you’ll need it later.
Step Four: Keyword Research for Article Marketing
This is a very important step for article marketing. Your articles won’t rank well if you don’t spend time researching the right keywords. Additionally, if you use the wrong keywords, you won’t get qualified traffic.
I researched keywords using Google’s Keyword tool. Since I selected products about affiliate marketing, I entered “affiliate marketing” into the search tool. I then search variations of “affiliate marketing” like “affiliate”, “affiliate products”, “clickbank affiliate”, etc. Once I found a great keyword list, I downloaded my keywords into Excel CSV format.
I highlighted the keywords I wanted my articles to contain. See my previous post on search engine optimization for additional information.
Step Five: Creating Your Articles
Now that you have found your products and done your keyword research, you can write your articles. I decided to write four articles, two for each product. I made sure each article was keyword rich. I decided to provide informative articles about the product subjects. For example, I created an article that discussed the benefits of affiliate marketing programs. I then found a way to work in the product I had chosen to promote.
Make sure you create a fair promotional article free of tricky tactics. Some vendors at Clickbank will ban you from promoting their products if you write articles with words like scam in the title. Be very upstanding about your approach. Once you have created your articles, you can then create an advertisement.
Creating an Advertisement
Since article submission sites do not allow direct affiliate linking, you will want to create an advertisement at a free ad site like Craigslist. Remember your hoplink? It goes in your advertisement.
After creating a compelling advertisement, you can begin submitting your articles with a link to your advertisement. Since this is an article marketing strategy, make sure you submit ads that run for at least thirty days.
Additionally, you want your advertisements to rank well in the search engines. Creating and submitting the articles to many places with a link to the advertisement will increase the ads ranking.
Article Submission
I selected ten article submission sites. I found a great master listing of articles here. Select the sites you would like your article to appear on and begin the submission process.
Soon, you should begin getting hits to your advertisements and hopefully some sales.
Mass Article Marketing
There are some products that assist in the article creation process. Article writing can take time and effort. And if you’re not that great at writing you may want to try them. One of my favorite products is Mass Article Control.
Good luck and I’ll keep you posted on my progress! If you have some additional tips or have tried this, I’d love to hear from you.
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Thanks for posting the article, was certainly a great read!
Hello Ben! You’re certainly welcome. I’ll keep you updated on my progress! Hopefully, I’ll have great news in thirty days!
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