How to Make Money With Clickbank

One of my favorite affiliate networks is Clickbank because it sells digital goods and offers very high commissions compared to other affiliate programs.


In my opinion, Clickbank is far better than most book affiliate programs because the commissions are much higher. And because the products are digital, there is no shipping and handling, so they can offer higher commission to us affiliates.

Quality Control

As I've already mentioned, one unfortunate problem with CB is there are many low-quality "get rich quick" books and programs that people have purchased, so they assume that anything on Clickbank is a scam and it's just not true.
There are some very good books there. You just have to take the time to scope out useful ones that are relevant to your audience. You can't just promote something because it has a high commission tied to it, that will always come back to bite you. Your visitors will trust you less, and it will hurt your affiliate business in the long run.
Clickbank is no more a scam than Amazon, LinkShare or Commission Junction is a scam. It's an affiliate network that sells digital goods created by people from all over the world.
As an affiliate, you can choose which products you want to promote and how well you convert depends on...

1. How relevant they are to your visitors
2. How well you PREsell (educate and convince)
3. The effectiveness of the landing page where the product is sold
4. The amount of targeted traffic your site has

The Right Approach

The reason I have done so well with their affiliate program is that I take the honest approach. I buy books that relate to the theme of my website, review them and recommend them to my audience. If I don't like the book, I don't promote it. It's that simple.
This works well on my flat stomach website and this one. I don't promote a lot of products (less than 4) because there's no need to. I just find a few quality, relevant books and recommend them from various places on my website.

How to Use Clickbank

1) Go to their homepage and sign up as an affiliate. It's free.
2) Browse their marketplace for products related to your site's content
3) Review them and write a review. Be honest. Tell what you like and what you don't like a product. Then finish the review with an affiliate link to the book.
4) There's a great guide for helping you create links to the products for your site.

No Traffic. No Money.

Clickbank is not magic. If you don't have enough targeted traffic to your website, then you won't convert many sales. People who say "Clickbank doesn't work" probably don't have enough traffic coming to their websites and/or they aren't promoting the products properly.
This site gets over 20,000 visitors per day, mostly from the search engines and social media. Once you have that kind of traffic, you better believe you can make money with Clickbank or any affiliate program.

Succeeding With ClickBank

The key to success with CB or any affiliate program such as this is to build a niche website as I have done here with this site and many others.
The idea is to teach and write useful content around a certain topic and then recommend CB products that match your site's content.
You can write reviews or subtly recommend the products on relevant pages.
Making money online takes work and is not an overnight thing. However, it's very doable with the right approach and patience.