Well that was tough going. Making money with ClickBank that is.As you will recall I started a money making test with ClickBank on September 9th and I then told you of a snag I found about receiving payment on September 25th.
I can now, however, report that at last I have qualified to receive a payment of $115.02 from them.
This means, I suppose, that I ought to come up with some sort of conclusion now.
Okay, I started out with great enthusiasm with ClickBank and even set up another blog, Good Health Source, to try and help with making sales.
At first it seemed to be going okay. I was averaging about 70 clicks a day for over a month but actual sales, and therefore commission, was hard to come by.
Recently I must admit that my enthusiasm has wained, so much so that my number of clicks for the last three weeks has been down to 20 per day.
What I find difficult to get my head round is firstly the price of some of the thousands of products on offer. They are mainly ebooks and I feel that they are often vastly over priced.
Does that matter?
If the information is excellent then it doesn't matter because the buyer will have gained something of value. Otherwise it's a rip off. The problem is that you don't actually know the quality of what you are promoting unless you buy the product yourself. The saving grace is that there is always a money back guarantee, and this is what eased my conscience.
As for the way ClickBank makes you initially qualify for payment (see here), I don't like this at all. To my mind this is done to make life difficult for smaller affiliates, in a way that AdSense similarly does by having a $100 minimum payout.
What in reality this must mean is that ClickBank/AdSense make a lot of additional money because many affiliates give up and never actually qualify for payment.
So would I recommend ClickBank to other bloggers?
It's taken me just under two months to make my $115.02, which I don't consider to be very good in relation to the number of clicks I have had. I can only give figures for the last month because, for some inexplicable reason, ClickBank records only go back for 30 days.
In the last 30 days I had 919 clicks and these converted to commission of $50.33. This means for this period each click was worth $0.054 to me.
I concentrated on mostly health orientated products, perhaps other sectors gain better results.
I can't, as I've already intimated, give an opinion on the actual products themselves. There are literally thousands of them but some do sound a bit tacky.
I'd say, if you want to add it to your portfolio of money making programs, no harm done. I should, however, take those fantastic earnings figures often bandied about with a large pinch of salt.
If I had to give a score out of ten it would only be 4/10.
I'll let you know from time to time how I get on with ClickBank.
Good luck,
Mike.
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