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Posted by Paul B | August 13, 2007 .

Clickbank, to affiliate marketing what the God Channel is to the Christian faith. Love it or hate it there are people out there who claim to be mega rich through nothing more than being a Clickbank affiliate, so what I’d like to know is where am I going wrong?

My main problem with Clickbank is that a lot of the products for sale seem to be about making money from the internet, 90%+ of these come down to selling the same e-product you just bought (Great, now I feel like an even bigger sucker!) Even worse the landing page for these products tend to be sick inducing insults to the actual words “web page”. BIG text, black on a yellow background and the sort of marketing blurb that could only possibly appeal to mentalists all feature heavily on most Clickbank product landing pages. The other question I’d have is that if the seller genuinely believes for 1 minute that they have a product worth $60-$100 why are they prepared to give up a 75% cut on average to an affiliate? Commission Junction this is not.

Maybe I’m not evil enough to promote Clickbank products properly, or maybe I care too much about what people think but there are people out there claiming a six figure monthly salary from Clickbank? Don’t get me wrong, when I find something that I think people will find genuinely useful I’m not shy of including a Clickbank link (like my list of Surveys for example) and I’ve even made the odd sale. If I hadn’t made money from Clickbank I wouldn’t even be mentioning it here, I just wish people wouldn’t push the sort of crap they’d never buy themselves.

So these are my top 3 tips to being an honest yet poor Clickbank affiliate:-

  1. Look at what you’re promoting, would you buy it? If not then don’t push it.
  2. Check out the landing page before creating an affiliate link to it, Dear “Insert Name Here” is usually a bad sign!
  3. If in doubt ask a family member to read the landing page, if you’re too embarrassed to show them it then don’t promote the product.

If it’s a product for a price at which you’d buy it and you don’t feel dirty promoting it then please go ahead. I normally manage 3-4 Clickbank sales a month bringing in around $100. Far from impressive but I have no guilt about the products I’m promoting if that counts for anything?

One final thing, people buying might be turned off by seeing a Clickbank affiliate link, it is normally recommended that you disguise the link (it will also stop people from stealing your commission). If you’re not techy minded then the following tools may help (these can also be used for lots of other affiliate schemes):-

Affiliate Link Masking

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