If you’re looking for the best ways to Make Money with Clickbank you’ve come to the right place. Many top affiliates on Clickbank make over 100k per year marketing Clickbank products. At the same time a large percentage of Clickbank affiliates never make any sales or commissions.
Making Money with Clickbank
The best way to make sure you make money with Clickbank is to select the right product(s) to promote. You will struggle to make money if you select a product that doesn’t sell or if it has a high refund rate. With that being said, select the right products to promote and you greatly increase your chances of making money with affiliate marketing.
After selecting the right products to promote the second most important factor for making money with Clickbank is to be able to drive traffic to the offer you have selected.
Some of the other factors for making money are:
- Market Research
- Keyword Research
- Product Research
- Affiliate Promotion Strategies
- And much more…
That’s what this blog is dedicated to teaching you…
Everything you need to know to make money with Clickbank.
What is Clickbank?
Clickbank was founded in 1998 and is a trusted and secure online marketplace with over 10,000 digital products and over 100,000 active affiliate marketers. They are also ranked as one of the top 250 trafficked websites in the world.
Is Clickbank a Scam?
Absolutely Not. Clickbank provides a trusted 3rd party payment management system for customers, vendors and affiliates in over 200 countries worldwide. They safely and securely process over 35,000 digital transactions per day.
Clickbank provides secure online payments that are McAfee Secure and VeriSign Trusted. They accept all major credit cards and PayPal.
They offer a no questions asked 60 Day refund policy and all refund requests are usually granted within 24 hours. Affiliates are guaranteed commission payments every two weeks by check are on a weekly basis for direct deposits.
Clickbank Complaints
Although Clickbank is a very solid company with over 10 years of quality service to vendors, affiliates and customers there are legitimate reasons why there have been a lot of Clickbank complaints. Most of these complaints come from vendor websites (sales pages) and the methods that have been used to sell their products.
Even though all sales are backed by the sixty day money back guarantee people don’t like to be misled or even in some cases told lies. Most of these complaints came from the e-business and e-marketing category in the Clickbank Marketplace.
In most cases this was in the form of false and misleading testimonials, endorsements, false scarcity (for example, “Only 300 copies” available), inaccurate pricing (suggesting the product used to be higher priced), and fake affiliate reviews (acting as if they had reviewed the product).
The good news is that these deceptive practices have been dealt with by Clickbank. As of August 1, 2011 they have updated their promotional guidelines for vendors and affiliates.
Clickbank Vendor
Anyone who has a digital product to sell online can become a Clickbank Vendor. Some of the advantages Clickbank provides:
- Credit card processing and PayPal payments
- Fraud prevention
- Customer support
- Customer refunds
- Affiliate payments and chargeback’s
The biggest advantage of being a Clickbank Vendor is the large network of experienced affiliates that will help promote your digital products. So rather than have to pay for advertising and maybe not get results you only have to pay a commission when you make money. In fact some of the top vendors make well over $1 million dollars per year.
Clickbank Affiliate
A Clickbank Affiliate is someone who promotes products listed in the Clickbank marketplace for a percentage of sales (commissions).
Clickbank currently accepts affiliates in over 150 different countries. Some of the big advantages of being an affiliate for Clickbank include:
- Up to 75% commission
- Free to signup
- Over 100,000 products to promote
- Recurring commissions on certain products
- Great affiliate tools and training from top vendors
- Unlimited earning potential
Click here to sign up as a Clickbank Affiliate
Clickbank Marketplace
The Clickbank Marketplace offers over 10,000 products to choose to promote as an affiliate. Selecting the right product(s) to promote can be overwhelming for new and/or inexperienced affiliate marketers. As mentioned earlier if you select the wrong product(s) to promote you will make very little or no money at all.
There are 23 categories and 141 sub-categories in the Marketplace. Once you are viewing a category or sub-category you can sort by popularity, $ sale, recurring billing or gravity.
You can learn more about each product by clicking the red headline and visiting the product sales page. A lot of vendors also list their affiliate tools or signup page in their marketplace description.
Several Clickbank research/stats websites can be useful finding additional products you might want to consider promoting:
- CB Engine
- CB Analytics
- CB Trends
Clickbank has updated their search features of the Marketplace to include advanced search and filters that are very useful in narrowing down search results to find great products.
Clickbank Products
All Clickbank Products are digital products that are available for immediate download. This can include digital eBooks, software or membership sites. Supplemental products may be offered in the form of books, CD’s or DVD’s.
If you are looking to make money promoting Clickbank products then the products you select to promote are extremely important. I would suggest choosing products that have a gravity rating of at least twenty. Certain niche markets will not have any products that are generating a high enough gravity to consider promoting.
Once you have chosen a product to promote you will need to create an affiliate link (Hoplink) to track sales and earn commissions.
Clickbank Review
Clickbank is one of the easiest affiliate networks to use for new affiliates and those looking to market digital information products in a variety of niches. In fact they have paid out over 2 Billion dollars to affiliate marketers and product vendors since 1998.
The first billion was paid out during its first 10 years and the 2nd billion was paid out in just a 3 year time period. So you can see that digital information products are becoming more popular than ever.
Clickbank was one of the first and still one of the best affiliate networks for digital products online for affiliate marketers and vendors.
To truly be successful marketing digital products from the Clickbank Marketplace you will need to select:
- High quality products
- High paying commissions
- High converting sales page
Clickbank Software
There are numerous Clickbank software programs that can help with product research, site building, website traffic, affiliate management, link cloaking, wordpress plugins and many more.
I would stay away from the “1 Click” software hype and focus on tools that will help you build your sites, get more website traffic. This site will have a complete section dedicated to Clickbank Software reviews.
Clickbank Ads
If you have a blog or website you can display Clickbank ads with the HopAd Builder. You can use this tool to build contextual ads of Clickbank products related to topics of your pages.
These ads can be created in a variety of sizes, layouts, colors and fonts, and more.
Clickbank Gravity
Clickbank Gravity™ is a unique calculation that refers to the number of different affiliates who have earned a commission for a particular product in the last 12 weeks. More recent transactions receive a higher value towards the overall calculation. This weighted value helps indicate “hot products” that are generating a lot of sales.
Higher gravity also indicates that there are more affiliates promoting the product and means there is more competition.
There are really two ways I would recommend using the gravity score:
- Find new and hot trending products
- Find top selling products that have been making affiliates money over a longer period of time
- Find lower gravity high quality products with less competition
Usually the highest competition comes in the e-business/e-marketing category but big money can be made with new product launches. I would recommend finding high quality products that have had gravity between 20 and 50 for at least 3 months.
Clickbank Affiliate Marketing
If you’re going to try and make money with Clickbank there are several Clickbank marketing strategies I would recommend you use:
- Single product review blog
- Multi product review blog in similar niche
- Product launch review blog
- Niche related blog with text and image ads
- Blog content for lead generation and email marketing
As you can see I would strongly recommend using a blogging platform for building your websites. Each of these ways to make money with Clickbank will be covered in more detail through videos, reports and blog posts. Make sure to bookmark this page, subscribe to the RSS feed or Join the newsletter.
