How to Get Your First Clickbank Commission Check – A Guide

by bbracken on August 29, 2010

There was a time when if you wanted to sell any kind of product, you had to open up a store. Now, with the Web,  anyone can start selling just about anything in a matter of minutes. You can sell products that you never see, handle, or never ship, and you never even have to deal with the customers. It is an amazingly easy way to earn money quickly.  Marketing today can be completely hands off.

Becoming a ClickBank affiliate is the ideal choice if you want to generate income. There are a lot of high quality products in ClickBank and you can get large commissions by promoting their products.

There are several basic strategies anyone can take to market a Clickbank product that makes it simple to find customers and to earn Clickbank commission checks:

Select a product

The Clickbank marketplace has listings of thousands of products in a number of categories ranging from how to make money to how to lose weight.  All of them pay a percentage to affiliates who refer buying customers.  The listings in the Clickbank market include several helpful statistics that may assist you choose a product to advertise.

$/sale: Dollars Earned Per Sale

This figure signifies the amount of money, in dollars, that you’ll receive in commission for each sale of the product.  Do not waste your time by selling products which give you low commission(10 $ or less).

%refd

This signifies the percentage of a product’s sales which come by means of affiliate referrals. Always elect product with high %refd to promote if you can. High %refd means if the product are sold well by the affiliate.

Gravity

Gravity is a figure that represents how many affiliates are marketing a product.  While the formula is proprietary and secret, the larger the number, the greater the number of people who are currently advertising the product.  This is the most important thing to see when you select a ClickBank product. Gravity is an indicator if a product is sold well or not in the last two months. So, always select a product with high gravity.

The simplest way to generate sales is to write a product review and post it to a blog.

You can easily produce a Wweblog making use of WordPress.  How this is done is outside the scope of this article, but most Internet hosts can install WordPress automatically for you.

Your Weblog post should include the name of the product in it.  This will help you get traffic from search engines.  Your Weblog post should offer a straightforward review of the product and an endorsement of it.  You can then provide a link for interested buyers to use to purchase the product.  Five or six hundred words should be sufficient; be sure to include the name of the product four or five times in your review for search engine marketing purposes

How to get traffic from Google for your Weblog.

You should get high quality backlinks to get higher ranking in Google. According to Wikipedia, backlinks are incoming links to a Website or Internet page.  As a rule, the more backlinks you have, the more traffic you’ll get.

Submitting article to article directory

This is a great way to get high quality backlink for your Weblog. What you should do is make an article and submit it to article directories such as Ezine articles and make anchor backlinks in the resource box.  A shorter version of your product review works nicely.

Forum Posting

Posting links in forums might be the simplest way to get backlinks. What you need do to is participate in the forum and put anchor backlinks in the signatures. The simplest way to find a relevant forum is to go to Google and type in the product’s subject plus the word “forum”, such as “golf forum” or “weight loss forum.”  There are thousands of forums on the Web and most let you post links.

If needed, you can get more backlinks from press release sites, directory submission, Weblog commenting, etc.

If done correctly, you can see your Weblog getting high ranking in Google within weeks and visitors buy your product, thus you’ll get your first commission

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