Making Money As A ClickBank Affiliate

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If you’re just getting started with affiliate marketing, ClickBank is one of the best affiliate networks to sign up with. Their business model is quite different from that of the big networks like Commission Junction, which means that they can be much more relaxed about who they let in to their network.

The big affiliate networks make their money by charging their advertisers fees for accessing their network. Since most of them have a relatively small number of advertisers, that makes them vulnerable to conditions imposed by the advertisers. For instance, an advertiser can decide that they won’t work with anyone outside the USA, or that they won’t consider advertising on sites with fewer than 50,000 page views a month or whatever. Fair enough, even Google Adwords lets you choose which sites you don’t want your ads to appear on.

ClickBank, on the other hand, doesn’t charge anyone anything until they have the buyer’s cash in hand. At that point, they deduct their fees and share what’s left over between the publisher (the seller) and the affiliate. Since they’re not charging the publisher up front, and since they have well over 10,000 publishers, they don’t need to be picky about who they do business with.

What this boils down to is that you don’t need to prove that you have a website and 5,000 unique visitors a month to get a ClickBank affiliate account. All you need is to fill in a relatively simple form which tells ClickBank where to send your money.

One of the simplest and cheapest ways to get started with affiliate marketing is by setting up a blog on Blogger.com and reviewing a Clickbank product. As with many online strategies, this one depends largely on your being able to drive a stream of traffic to your review site. Without traffic, you’ll make no money.

I’ve found a terrific series of 7 short videos which explain exactly how to set up this kind of review blog, and how to drive traffic to it. There’s 85 minutes of video, and no throat-clearing or time-wasting. The traffic-building techniques you’ll learn from this video course will work for any website, so it’s a great foundation for any online business. If you can’t make money online using these methods, you may as well go home.

You can get the videos at www.CBRevelation.com. I’m selling them for $7.00, which I reckon is way less than they’re worth.



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31 Responses to Making Money As A ClickBank Affiliate

  1. Olivier from brainwave meditation says:

    I agree clickbank is very nice. Unfortunately many of the sales pages they (or their publishers) offer put me of as a customer.
    So I take only those I like and send my readers there. But that leaves out quite a few.

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  2. kermit from minnesota real estate says:

    What is a realistic revenue that one could expect? Of course results will vary, but what do the “heavy hitters” actually earn? I don’t have any sense of scope or perspective on this.

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  3. Derrick says:

    Kermit,
    The heavy hitters are generally reluctant to share their actual earnings, unless they’re punting some new product.
    Jeremy Palmer claims to earn over $1,000,000 a year from affiliate marketing. You can download his free ebook at QuitYourDayJob.com

  4. Amongst all affiliate network i find Clickbank to be the best one considering the ease of promotion and scope of opportunities. Thanx a lot for providing some nice content about Clickbank to the world!

  5. I found Paydot and ClickBank the best companies offering the widest range of products to promote.

    Thank you for sharing this.

    Dan

  6. Jessie says:

    I find click bank is one of the best method to earn money among the all other affiliate networks.But there has to be a regular updation in this method.

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  7. Kevin from Great Wall of China Facts says:

    I like Paydot the best. It is the best in my opinion. Thanks for your article as well. Its always nice to read!

  8. alkafi says:

    Promote Your ClickBank Products as Paid Ads:

    Earn dollars per click
    instead of a few measly cents that don’t even
    cover your hosting fee….
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  9. Schleng says:

    Hi,
    I’ve promoted Clickbank for awhile.
    The system is good but the way to get money is the cheque only which is not convenience.
    I prefer to use Paypal by the way.

    P.S. I’ll try to use Paydot.

  10. Carl from Paid Surveys says:

    Thanks for sharing this, I heard of ClickBank before but after reading this, I can’t wait to sign up? Hopefully it will be as profitable as I hope! :)

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  11. unfortunately I cann ot use that affiliate network due to their TOS

  12. Jack Clarke says:

    I will agree Clickbank is the easiest and fastest way to start making affiliate profits. You can convert to direct deposit after you have received one paper check in the mail.

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  13. James from funky women's clothing says:

    Setting up a blog and reviewing a Clickbank product is really the easies way to start. I use the clickbank affiliate links in my website. It is another good way to make profits (The other – with google adSense)
    Thanks for the video links.

  14. James from Make Money on the Internet says:

    I never had much luck with blogs and Clickbank. But it worked quite well with making money from my email lists.

  15. john from Debt Settlement says:

    I think CB is the best affiliate marketplace around although Commission Junction is pretty decent too.

  16. ken from cheap website hosting says:

    If you find some good products that have low return rates and get traffic you can make good money with clickbank. I would get own blog hosted so any work you do for SEO is not waisted and you own the site.

  17. James from Wealthy Affiliate Review says:

    Clickbank is great but people slip up when driving traffic, most tend to try and get as much traffic as possible instead of highly targeted highly relevant traffic. Get razor sharp traffic to your sites and see the sales start coming in.

  18. I believe sales on clickbank has just got a bit harder these days. Many affiliates have reported this. Could it be because customers got used to it?
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    Yes Click bank is the simplest way to getting money online.
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