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I've tried selling a few popular clickbank products through this method but didn't get any real results. Just lost money on Adwords.
I'm a little skeptial on the trustworthyness of clickbank's tracking system and all the competition on Adwords for these products.
Any thoughts?
Thank you,
The big secret of the get-rich-quick eBooks is that they fail to tell you one of the best ways to get rich quick is to write an eBook on getting rich quick via the internet, then sell it to others on the net. :)
As to your question, I'm not really familiar enough with clickbank products to offer a good answer. Just taking a guess, though, I'd say that it's probably hard to directly sell clickbank products (i.e. from Google to the buy it page), but probably easier to do so if you send them to a well-designed landing page that explains what the item is and why they should buy it.
Also, picking the right keywords can help on the AdWords end. You ideally want to find lots of people that are interested in the product. The closer they are to wanting to buy the product offered, the more likely you are to convert traffic. The other key is to bid low enough that you can make a profit but high enough so that you're not buried six pages back where nobody will see you.
I'm also firmly of the belief that you have to cut your losses if things aren't going well. The rule of thumb I like to recommend (though I'm guilty of not using it) is that if you've spent two commissions worth of money on AdWords with zero conversions, you should cut it immediately. If you get one sale from two spent, it might be worth continuing for a bit to see if it's a statistical variation. If you get 2, it's also worth closely watching -- a greater sample is needed, but you're breaking even. If you get more than 2, you're probably set.
I also advise looking around for other programs that you might be able to promote. There are plenty of AdWords, which mean there are plenty of ways to make money with them. It takes some digging, but you could eventually strike gold.
Just my two cents. :)
Use the general rule of 1 sale every 50 clicks and when you are starting off don't bid more than 5 cents and make sure you make 100% with these numbers... for example... if you bid 5 cents your total cost for 50 clicks would be $2.50 your commission needs to be $5.
The reason I suggest using this low number is because chances are you are still learning the ropes, you might need some research on what keywords will convert and what your ads will say and those take time to learn to make it work. Well At least that's my experience. Anyways, if you use these numbers and if you failed 10 times you will only lose $25. :) Not too bad.
Remember you succeed only if you don't give up. Good Luck.
Sure, it works. But it takes a fair amount of work finding the hundreds of keywords needed that may or may not convert. It's testing, testing and more testing. You need to run at least a dozen campaigns at the same time, varying just the headline. When you find the two headlines with the best CTR, erase the other ten campaigns....then begin to vary the description, again using at least one dozen variations. After a few days see which description is fetching you the best CTR. What does this do? It enables you to get a higher volume of targetted clicks for a cheaper cost per click.
The key? You need to find a product/program that converts well! Like a previous poster said, if after a few hundred clicks you don't make one sale then cut your losses and dump the product. Find another promising affiliate or CB product and repeat the above steps. If you run this routine with 100 promising affiliate products/services then you will probably be successful with about 20% of them. I look for at least 100% return on investment for it to be worth my time. 200 to 500% is nice.
As you go along, keep adding more targetted keywords to your campaign and that will increase the number of targetted clicks you get to your campaigns...there are CB products that work, but I"m not going to tell you which ones...you have to figure that out yourself ;)
Dave.
