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What you need to know about Clickbank

Posted July 20, 2009

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Good news for all affiliates who want to make money online with Clickbank. The marketplace for electronic products, Clickbank, can make some serious affiliate earnings for you and now they have improved their services for publishers to make more money for you. If you have not used Clickbank to make money from affiliate programs, you should check it out. Clickbank is different from mainstream affiliate networks because it allows individual merchants to market their products through the website, and any affiliate member can promote those products and earn commissions of up to 75 per cent. Products include ebooks and software and you put your personal Clickbank hoplink into the product page URL to earn your share.

But that system has been open to scammers who actually hijacked other people’s legitimate affiliate links to steal the commission. Most publishers did their best to stop this by using TinyURL, but it is time consuming to convert every affiliate link individually. There is an easy way to protect all your affiliate links with a clever software package and I advise anybody who want to keep their affiliate earnings to get this now.

Clickbank have taken a lot of steps to improve their affiliate links, by encrypting them all, automatically. But other affiliate programs do not encrypt, so you still need an Affiliate Link Cloak to protect your online income. The other new product from Clickbank is the HopAd Builder, a fully customised text ad box to display on your website or blog. By inserting keywords related to your website, you can create relevant text ads that have the potential to make much more than your latest pathetic Adsense earnings.

If the whole idea of affiliate marketing with Clickbank is new to you, you can get help from The Clickbank Code – this is a fantastic five hour video guide to some real top shelf affiliate techniques. Michael Jones, who devised the system, will hold your hands every step of the way and get you into profit.

And I mean big profits… Michael made $48,506.66 his first month using the system – And that was his first month in Clickbank!

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Best Wordpress Plugin for Higher Affiliate sales

Posted April 23, 2009

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Finding affiliate programs to use for making money from your blog is quite simple. I am signed up with two of the biggest marketplaces for affiliate programs – Commission Junction, who call themselves CJ, and ClickBank. It is completely FREE to join, they pay your commission by cheque (check) . CJ pay in sterling over here, but Clickbank pay in US$ checks unless you are generating a lot of sales. If you are outside the US this is not so convenient as getting your payments through Paypal and I suggest you opt to receive payments once they are above $100 otherwise bank charges will swallow up your earnings.

How to post your Affiliate Links

As soon as you are a registered affiliate, log in to your dashboard and you can search the marketplace for products in your niche that you can sell. Most merchants supply a variety of banners and text links with your affiliate ID coded in to them. It is easy to insert the code into your website, blog, email or forum signature and start promoting the products.

But you might not want to show your affiliate name, and there are people out there who could hijack your link ad get the commission for themselves. You also want to manage the placement of your links and update them fast if they change.

There is a great Wordpress plugin that you can use for this to protect your earnings, and it will help you sell more as an affiliate. It is called Wordpress Affiliate Link Cloak Plugin. The way it works is to link words and phrases in your blog content to one of your affiliate links, taking your readers straight to the product without the need to add an affiliate link every time. When you write a blog post about handbags, there will be a link to a company that sells accessories.

For me this plugin made all the difference in successful affiliate marketing: until I started using Affiliate Link Cloak, I spent hours messing about with affiliate codes without getting a decent payback for the time involved. Once the account details were programmed in, the links appeared like magic and my earnings soared.

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