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Make Money with Clickbank - A Guide for New Users

You've just signed up with Clickbank, you've just created an AdWords account, you're eager to start making money with Clickbank but you've no experience of Clickbank and even less of AdWords. Where do you begin?

Let's start with some important pieces of information that do not seem to be obvious to many people in this situation who want to make money with Clickbank.

1. AdWords was not created for the sole benefit of people wanting to make money with Clickbank.
2. AdWords is completely and utterly separate from Clickbank
3. There are many other advertisers (i.e. non-clickbank users) using AdWords
4. There are many Clickbank advertisers and those from other affiliate programs who are quite successful and do make money with Clickbank
5. AdWords will only allow one advertiser per destination URL to be displayed at any one time
6. AdWords is currently actively trying to reduce the number of affiliate advertisers being displayed on any single results page

Introduction to Clickbank

From the perspective of this article, Clickbank.com is, essentially, a directory of affiliate programs . . . a list of products & services that you can sell on behalf of someone else in order to earn commission. When someone clicks on a Clickbank hyperlink, known as a "hoplink," a cookie is placed on that user's computer that tells Clickbank whose link (or ad) the user clicked on in order to get to that product's Clickbank page. If that user then makes a purchase, the affiliate whose Clickbank ID is stored in the relevant cookie gets his/her Clickbank account credited with a certain amount of commission. The amount of commission depends on the particular affiliate program in question.

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What is a Hoplink?

A hoplink is simply a particular URL in a regular hyperlink that indicates 2 important things:

1. The Clickbank ID of the affiliate (i.e. the person trying to earn money by promoting the product)
2. Another Clickbank code for the product being promoted

For example, if my clickbank ID was "abc" and the code for the product I was promoting was "zyx," the hoplink URL would look something like:

http://abc.zyx.hop.clickbank.net

This tells Clickbank that any commission resulting from this action needs to be placed in user abc's account and that the product being advertised is product code zyx. Furthermore, the product code also tells Clickbank which page to direct the user's web browser too. For example, a hoplink promoting SEO Elite software takes the user's web browser to http://www.seoelite.com/index2.htm. This is the page that is, in a sense, trying to sell/promote the product to the user.

Where AdWords Fits In

Many people that are new to Clickbank do not seem to realize that AdWords is in no way directly related to Clickbank and that the stats they provide are completely unconnected. AdWords is merely one way of getting people to click on your hoplink in the hope the person clicking will go on to buy whatever product is being advertised. AdWords can tell you how many times your ads have been shown and how many times they have been clicked on but, at the moment, it cannot tell you how many Clickbank sales you have made or how much you have earned from those sales. [Note: AdWords can provide that information for people that can add tracking code into their own web pages.] In order to find out your sales figures you need to log in to Clickbank, NOT AdWords.

Introduction to AdWords

AdWords has two available "editions:" Starter Edition and Standard Edition. Anyone serious about advertising with AdWords should immediately register for the Standard Edition.

A detailed overview of how AdWords works is beyond the scope of this article so I will just quickly run through the process of creating ads in a very brief manner.

AdWords has a hierarchical structure as follows. An AdWords account is comprised of one or more campaigns. A campaign is comprised of one or more ad groups. An ad group contains one or more ads and one set of keywords. For more information on this structure, visit the AdWords Learning Center topic, which has both a text lesson and a multimedia lesson.

If you are advertising multiple Clickbank products, each product should have its own ad group that contains a set of keywords specific to that product. In addition, every ad group should contain at least 2 ads for the product so that you can test which ad performs best. This process is known as split-testing. It is also important that you concentrate on writing effective ads, which is an art in and of itself.

Specific Tips for Clickbank Users

As mentioned earlier, AdWords does not seem to be very keen on affiliate advertisers at the moment and, as a result, if your ad contains your hoplink as the "destination URL" (that is, the URL the person clicking on the ad will be taken to), you may well find that you have a $5 or more minimum bid requirement for your keywords to be "active for search." There are two main ways round this.

First, if you have any free (or paid for!) web space, you can create an intermediate page between your AdWords ad that contains a hyperlink that incorporates your Clickbank hoplink. In that way, the ad's destination URL will then be to your own page and NOT your direct hoplink. Note, you cannot use an interim page that automatically redirects the user to the target hoplink page because that is against AdWords policies. Of course, if you use this method, the user will still have to click on your hyperlink, so the page needs to be well-written in order to entice the user to do just that!

This is the most effective method to make money with Clickbank

To illustrate:

My Ad ---> myWebPage ---> (hyperlinked hoplink to) --> Clickbank product page

Second (and preferred solution)to make money with clickbank, if you are promoting a range of related products, you can create your own web site based around the theme of those products and that contains hoplinks to the products that you are promoting. Using this method to make money with Clickbank, you simply use your ads as a means of getting traffic to your site. This is the basis upon which the site you are on right now was created. It generates it's own FREE and TARGETED traffic and beats every other method hands down. Let me say it again, you MUST build your site using COMPELLING and HIGH QUALITY content.

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In essence, this is the approach to affiliate marketing that Rosalind Gardner, author of " The Super Affiliate Handbook " has taken (though I don't know if she uses AdWords at all). An additional benefit of this approach to make money with Clickbank is that you don't even need to use AdWords at all, you can simply use other search engine optimization and web site promotion methods to get visitors to your site. Of course, you can also use AdWords to complement your other marketing efforts.

The Clickbank Code is required for every beginner...

Do you want to learn how to earn with Clickbank using The Clickbank Code? Prior to purchasing and using the methods in this system, I already have experience making money on the CB networks and am generating a consistent $300+ per day from it.

However, I was very keen to find the strategies that experts use to generate 4 figure income days. I was skeptical about whether The Clickbank Code would contain what I was looking for, but I still decided to purchase and find out about it, especially seeing the huge income that its owner, Michael, managed to generate with the methods inside.

1. How to Earn with Clickbank Easily?

CB is actually a third party payment processing system that handles transactions between buyers and digital retailers. But do you know that when a person purchases a digital product over CB, there are usually two groups of people earning money from the transaction? One is the retailer who created and sold the product, while the other is the affiliate who referred the visitor to the site. This process is called affiliate marketing, and has become one of the easiest, no cost methods to get started making an income on the Internet.

2. What is The Clickbank Code and What Can You Expect From It?

It is a well developed blueprint made by Michael Jones to generate a consistent CB income. Its release date is on the 2009, May the 14th. Amazingly, Michael only started working with Clickbank since February in 2009 (although he has already had a lot of success and experience in eBay) and he was able to make a little more than $48,000 in profits during that month.

Basically, he has packaged all his methods into written PDF guides and video tutorials in The Clickbank Code and he hopes to use it to spread his marketing knowledge to the Internet marketing community.

This is one tool that has proven to do the job most effectively when it comes to promoting affiliate products and to Make Money with Clickbank. I have been promoting Clickbank products since 2005 and have made all the mistakes that anyone could make and I can tell you with confidence that setting up your own landing page to PREsell your visitors is the most profitable method to make money with clickbank or any other affiliate program. Watch these videos that illustrate the actual income that can be generated using the only method that works to make money with Clickbank.
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