Affiliates Marketing

I have written about affiliate marketing with ClickBank products before, but probably not about how to pick the ones that convert. You can look at the stats in ClickBank to see how many people are selling and what those things mean, but really... when it comes to YOUR list, what products would they be most likely to buy?

There's a simple answer, though it will take a little extra work. You can use any product vendor, though ClickBank is probably the easiest to make work, and it involved using a rotator.

First, don't send people straight through your affiliate or "hop" link to a sales page. Choose three different products that serve the same need. Type copywriting into ClickBank, type traffic into ClickBank, type viral marketing into ClickBank, if you're in the Internet Marketing niche, for example.

Then, because you cannot modify the sales page for other people's products, what can you modify? You can rotate the products that people see when they click your link. And then, you can find out, of those three products, which generates the most money for you.

The easiest way is to use some kind of rotator and tracking. You can get a stand-alone program that allows you to create split tests, like AdTrackz, for example, which will calculate stats for you, too. Or, you can get an inexpensive rotator program that rotates the affiliate pages people see, and use the stats that ClickBank gives you to see which product sold better. It's really simple. There are online rotators that you can use, too, without having to buy anything.

But check your stats. If you send over 200 people to one product and it doesn't generate any income... To me, that's a major loser. It's a loser product! Or at least, it's a loser for your match, for your list. But imagine what would have happened if you had been split testing two other products that whole time? I bet you would have made some money.

Try to be as compelling as you can in the email that you sent to your list, so as not to allude to which product they're going to be shown. Don't tell them you're doing any kind of test. Of course, now, you'll be sending them through the split test or rotator link, which uses your affiliate links and you're just going to be split testing three different affiliate links.