Guide to ClickBank

I thought it was time I get some nitty gritty guides packed away in the WorkBoxers archives.

What is Clickbank?
Clickbank is an ecommerce system that allows sellers to sell their products over the Internet with ease. If you have a product that you wish to sell, Clickbank can handle the credit card processing for you for a slight percentage.

What Clickbank is most famous for is its affiliate system as it allows automation of affiliate handling and payment. If you sell products online, Clickbank can handle management of your affiliates, affiliate payouts and provide statistics for your viewing pleasure.

You can grab a Clickbank account here .

How can I make money with Clickbank?
Let’s say I ran a blog about playing the Guitar where I offered tips and techniques to my readers. I wanted to promote a related product to my blog and earn commission on each sale. My first step would be to suss out a worthwhile product to promote and ensure it’s commission rate is decent.

I loaded up the Clickbank marketplace and searched for “Guitar” and the first result appeared as;

Unlock The Guitar In One Weekend. [ earn 75.0 % ]

Perfect. Catchy product name and an awesome commission rate.
Technically I’ll be earning more than the seller per sale.

Next we need to grab our affiliate link, click the “earn 75%” link and a popup window will appear.

Whack in your Clickbank username and hit go! Presented before you will be the one line of text that can earn you money – it’s a crazy world isn’t it?

With the guitar product that I had chosen, my affiliate link became

http://jamsii.unlkgtar.hop.clickbank.net

The blue part represents my Clickbank username while the green represents the sellers Clickbank name – pretty simple stuff.

How can I promote my affiliate link?
This is the secret that will either break and make your financial goals. What good is your affiliate link if nobody clicks it?!?

The number 1 advice? Buy the product.

This way you can honestly write a review for your readers which includes your affiliate link. You could also add your affiliate link to your blogs sidebar under a heading such as “Recommended Products”.

Another proven method is Adwords.

Grab a Google Adwords account, find some relevant keywords and let your campaign loose to the world. You sometimes have to spend money to earn money.

Conclusion
Clickbank is a solid, reliable and easy to use ecommerce system. Very popular with affiliate marketers and sellers alike.