Getting ClickBank Affiliates

A recent reader found my blog by searching Google for "getting ClickBank affiliates", so I'd like to address that here today. I like to follow the readers' lead when possible, and write about what people hope to find here.

ClickBank has somewhere in the neighborhood of 100,000+ registered affiliates waiting to promote their products, so that is definitely the #1 place to go to find affiliates to sell for you. It seems counter-productive to try competing with the mighty ClickBank website itself, so I would suggest to just let it do the work for you. Afterall, that's what it was designed for.

So I think the key is to make sure your ClickBank Marketplace listing is order, being well written and correctly describing your product. If that is already the case, and your product is, in fact, something fairly well in demand, the affiliate recruiting should pretty much take care of itself.

And it shouldn't take long to get started either, since many ClickBank affiliates often choose to promote the very newest products available. The idea is to get a head start against their competition. If a product is fairly popular, there is usually lots of competition among the affiliates before long.

Outside of this, most sites include an affiliate link to offer the opportunity to promote the product using ClickBank. If your site already gets a substantial amount of traffic, this is probably something you want to include to attract the most affiliates you can.

If you've already done all this and still aren't seeing many affiliates getting involved...you may want to try raising your commission percentage offered. ClickBank now allows you to offer as high as 75% commissions. That might sound like a lot to give back, but remember that each sale from an affiliate's efforts is a sale you wouldn't have had otherwise - and you got it with no effort on your part.

I'm not really an expert on this subject, since I've only been on the affiliate side of the fence since I've been involved with ClickBank. But their website gives you all the details you need to get started as a seller. That's what's great about ClickBank - they make the whole process easy.

If you haven't already registered as a seller with ClickBank, you can find step by step instructions on how to do so, including frequently asked questions and answers right here: www.ClickBank.com/Sell_Products

Hope this helps when you're ready to unleash the next big ClickBank best-seller onto the internet!

Totally (Really) Free Online Classified Ads

If you're looking for some totally cost free online classified ads websites to advertise on, here's a good list to start with.

I can't say I've actually tried these all yet myself, but I just clicked on every one to make sure they're still up and running. After removing a few that were either invalid, parked pages or just something other than totally free, these were the sites that remained.

These sites appear to be good for getting some totally free classified ads on the web. Give them a try, and good luck with your promotions!

http://www.classifiedsforfree.com/
http://www.craigslist.net/
http://www.hyt.com/
http://www.usfreeads.com/
http://www.recycler.com/
http://www.inetgiant.com/
www.1second.com/1america.htm
http://www.citynews.com/
http://www.theadnet.com/
http://www.epage.com/
http://www.backpage.com/
http://www.freeclassifiedads.com/
http://www.bestmall.com/class/

Free Keyword Research Tools

Have you been searching for some free keyword research tools to use - ones that actually work well too? I've posted a few on this blog as I've come across them, but I'm still finding more. So I think this calls for a page to list them all on so they'll be handy to find all in one place.

I'll update this post as I find more to include every so often. And I'll put a link to this page over on the sidebar so this will always be easy to find...for myself as well as you, the readers! (There are at least a few of you out there I hope!)

Please comment or email me if you find that any of these are no longer valid, or if you know of any others that work well that we could add. Thanks in advance!

Here's the list...

WordTracker: (The FREE version)
https://www.wordtracker.com/

Keyword Discovery, from Trellian (The free keyword search tool - seems to work pretty well)
http://www.keyworddiscovery.com/search.html

Google Keyword Tool:
https://adwords.google.com/KeywordPlanner

SEO Book Keyword Suggestion Tool (You need to register for this one, but it's free)
http://tools.seobook.com/keyword-tools/seobook/

Google Trends (Most popular recent searches on Google)
http://www.google.com/trends/hottrends

Try them all and see which ones you like best. You've got nothing to lose - but lots of good, targeted traffic to gain if you choose the right keywords for your sites! And come on back here if you need to find the best free keyword research tools to use again. Good luck with your searching!