ClickBank Affiliate Needs Your Help

[Ricardo]

One Clickbank merchant says that every 25th visitor to their site buys the product (ebook). How can I get at least 25 targeted visitors a day to their website through my affiliate link? What FREE web promotion methods can I use? I am interested in ANYTHING that works.Please help!

[weisinator]

Don't expect to hit 1/25 right off the bat. Heck, only 5% of daily uniques who visit your site will click through anyways. That's 1/500 visitors to your site that will buy the book, and that is only if the numbers play out in your favor.

I would suspect that 1/1500 unique visitors to your site will be adventurous enough to buy the book. At least that's my experience.

You can swing the odds in your favor, though. Here's two things you can do:

1st, make sure your site has something in common with the book.If your site is about gangsta rap, your visitors won't care about Barry Manilow or Twisted Sister. They will probably be interested in a bio of 2pac or The Notorious B.I.G.

2nd, tell them what to do. Write a review telling them why they should buy it, then tell them to buy it. That means you have to read the book yourself.

Also, forget banner ads and pop-ups. They're not worth the time, effort, or bandwidth. They have a cloaking device that prevents users from clicking on them. Underlined text links telling users what to do work the best.

Example:

Have Gun Will Travel: The Spectacular Rise and Violent Fall of Death Row Records by Ronin Ro

Click here for pricing and availability for Have Gun Will Travel at [insert affiliate site]

If you want an example on how blah blah blah read the chapter entitled blah blah blah

Click here to buy Have Gun Will Travel at [insert affiliate site]

[the above is not an endorsement, rather it is just an example, and the only one I could think of off the top of my head.]

Search engines love content. Give them what they want.

Again, make sure it's tied in with your site's existing content. Don't include the above book in a site about the sit-com "Friends".

Affiliate programs are not a "get-rich-quick scheme". Rather it will take lots of work, and you won't make much money until you have several books reviewed.

[JamesR]

>every 25th visitor

Hmmm, tough stat. I would think that would depend on the kind of traffic that is being sent. If they are computing that based on all users, I would say targeted traffic like the kind weisinator is referring to would get an even better sales ratio.

[Drastic]

Great points weisinator.

I'd like to add, don't put the proverbial cart before the horse.

You need a website with traffic to sell advertising (which is what affiliate programs are - performance advertising.) You may need to focus on this first, and then learn how to plug ads in, where appropriate, to make money.