Do you want to learn how to use ClickBank? Are you struggling to understand how to effectively use ClickBank? Do you want to make money online as an affiliate marketer? Affiliate marketing with Clickbank for beginners is not difficult to start. Many affiliate marketers use ClickBank to find and promote products daily. In this guide, we explain how to use ClickBank to promote products as an affiliate marketer.
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What is ClickBank?
ClickBank is a global marketplace where customers, vendors, and affiliates go to buy, sell and promote products. ClickBank has physical and digital products that you can promote. There are so many niches on ClickBank that you can choose products from to promote.
How To Use ClickBank As An Affiliate?
1. Create An Account
The first step to becoming a ClickBank affiliate is creating an account. Click the Start Here button and select the option that says “I want to promote ClickBank products as an affiliate.”
2. Select A Product Niche
When you log into your newly created account, there are tabs at the top such as Knowledge Base, Partner Offers, Marketplace, Blog, and Log Out. Click on the Marketplace tab which will take you to the marketplace. On the left-hand side of the marketplace page, you will see the different categories.
Each category is a product niche with many products that you can review and choose from to promote. Health, wealth, and relationships are three of the best niches to promote products from.
Once you click on a category, the listing will appear with many products. Each product listing includes the name of the product, the description of the product, the average dollars per conversion earned by affiliates, a link to add the product to your favorites list, the promote button, and icons at the bottom giving more information about the product such as the gravity score, the initial dollars per conversion, and the recurring dollars per rebill.
You could also search for products by the search bar. If you have an idea of the type of product you want to promote, like “dietary supplements” or “weight loss”, you can type that in the search bar and look at the results. Or type in “top 10 products”.
You can also use the advanced search tab to refine your search and find products. With the advanced search, you can pick a category, decide whether you want physical or only digital products, products with upsells, products in a certain language, products that have CPA commission, products that require an approval to promote or not, products with statistics like avg gravity score, average $/conversion, initial $/conversion, recurring $/rebill, etc. You can really zoom in on the type of product you want to promote with the advance search if you know the stats of the product you want to promote.
Avg $/Conversion
The avg $/conversion is the average commission that an affiliate earns for each product conversion, including the initial sales, upsells, and rebills.
Gravity Score
The gravity is an indication of the number of different affiliates who earned a commission by promoting a product over the past 12 weeks. The gravity score can give you an idea of what products are “hot” at the moment, in terms of being promoted by many affiliates and making many sales. On the other hand, gravity also indicates that there may be a lot of competition promoting this product.
Initial $/Conversion
The initial $/conversion is the average commission an affiliate earns initially for each conversion of a product, including upsells and order bumps from the initial sale. It does not include affiliate earnings from any rebill payments of subscription products This number is only shown if the seller offers recurring products, such as memberships and subscriptions with regular billing over time.
Recurring $/Rebill
This number is the average commission an affiliate earns for each rebill payment of the product. It is only shown if it is a recurring product such as memberships and subscriptions.
3. Decide How To Promote The Product
Once you have chosen a product to promote, you must decide which method of promotion you will use. There are free and paid methods of promotion. The free methods are Social Media platforms like Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, Youtube, Twitter, TikTok, Snapchat, Forums, Reddit, etc. To use social media platforms, you will have to create an account on one or more of those platforms and consistently deliver helpful and relevant content to gradually grow your audience. This is a long-term strategy and not a short-term one.
You want to build a relationship with your audience as it grows by giving them quality content for the niche. By consistently providing relevant content, you build a relationship of trust with your audience. The content can be articles, videos, reviews, interviews with experts in the niche, pdfs, infographics, etc.
Another way to build your audience is to start your own blog. You can build a self-hosting website and create a blog on the website. On the blog, you can create niche-related articles that answer questions and solve the issues your audience has. After building a healthy relationship with your audience, you can then start promoting your affiliate products to them.
There is also the paid method of promotion. With the paid method, you create Pay-per-click advertising campaigns and direct the traffic to your affiliate products. It is advisable to create a website where you direct the traffic to your affiliate products. With a website, you can easily track your pay-per-click advertising campaigns to find out how well they are performing or not and how to optimize your campaigns.
There are many paid advertising platforms like Google Ads, Bing Ads, Facebook Ads, Instagram Ads, Pinterest Ads, Youtube Ads, Twitter Ads, TikTok, and Snapchat Ads. There are many more paid advertising methods like Banner Ads, email marketing, etc.
4. Tracking
It is important that you track your marketing whether it is paid advertising or free marketing. When you choose a product to promote, you will get the affiliate link that you will use to promote the product. The affiliate link you create in ClickBank to promote the product is called a Hoplink. It helps you track sales of the product that are attributed to you. ClickBank offers several analytic tools to help you optimize your marketing methods such as tracking IDs, tracking pixels, and analytical reports.
5. Get Paid
Once you promote products and make sales, ClickBank will pay you when your commissions reach a certain threshold. When you create your ClickBank account, you will specify the payment threshold you want it to be. if you want to be paid when your commissions total $50.00, then you will be paid when it reaches the threshold of $50.00. When you set up your ClickBank account, you can also decide to be paid via a check or by direct deposit into your bank account.
ClickBank Tips For Affiliate Marketing
1. Promote products that pay a $50.00 commission or more. It is better to promote products that pay more than products that pay little. You do the same amount of work promoting the products so why don’t you promote products that pay more.
2. Find products that have recurring charges so you get paid on a recurring basis until the customer cancels the subscription. Add some products with recurring billing to the portfolio of products you promote.
3. Build an email list for every niche you promote products in. This is a long-term strategy but one that will serve you well. With an email list, you can promote multiple products to your list over a long period of time.
4. Build a relationship with the affiliate manager. This can be very rewarding as the affiliate manager can give you inside information on which channels work well for the product and can also increase your commission if you consistently bring in a lot of qualified buyers.
5. Use a third-party tracking platform like ClickMagick, Redtrack, or Voluum to track your campaigns.
The Bottom Line
ClickBank is a marketplace where affiliate marketers can find profitable products to promote. It is easy to create an account and start promoting products. There are thousands of affiliate marketers who promote products from ClickBank and make money daily. As of today, ClickBank has paid out billions of dollars in commissions to its affiliates. Take time to learn the platform, find products and start promoting them.