Yeah, it’s possible to make money from Clickbank without a website. You can promote the Clickbank affiliate link product directly. The interesting fact that many affiliate marketers could earn a lot of money by promoting Clickbank products without having a website or a blog. How can they do that? Keep reading this post to the end. We will explore the strategy you can implement how to make money with Clickbank without a website.
As I have told you before, promoting a Clickbank product can be done even without a website. You can start directly promote your affiliate link to any placement to attract a buyer without feeling the hassle of creating a website. In this case, you can promote the product faster since there is no website building task, which means faster execution.
But, I could say it will be even more challenging to promote Clickbank products without a website. It means you can’t provide more information about the product to gain trust and entice the buyer, especially if you promote directly to Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, and Twitter. While on Youtube, you can entice and attract the buyer through your video content.
PRO TIP: Having a website allows you to diversify your revenue by promoting several affiliate programs under one domain, monetizing it with ads, sponsored posts, and collecting an email list. In terms of traffic, you could optimize your website for Google SEO and Pinterest SEO if you want to start your blog. You can check the WordPress blog step-by-step guide, which only takes less than 10 minutes.
Back to this guide’s main topic, I will share how it is possible to earn money from Clickbank without having a website. Before that, let’s back to the basics question first.
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Why start with Clickbank?
Clickbank is the top largest affiliate marketing network. If you want to start earning cash from the online world. Clickbank will be the easiest way to begin your journey by making money online as an affiliate. It doesn’t require you to have a website and email domain to be accepted as an affiliate, not only that it’s free to start. That’s why Clickbank is the best place to start for a beginner.
Clickbank has a wide range of product categories in every niche that you can promote. Several reasons why most affiliates start with Clickbank are:
- High commission up to 75% for their affiliate compare with other affiliate networks
- Clickbank offers regular weekly and bi-weekly payouts
- No need for any requirement to register as an affiliate. It’s free
- Wide range of product selection in every niche
- Some product has the recurring commission
Do we need a website to join Clickbank? is Clickbank free?
You don’t need a website to join Clickbank, it’s completely free, and no requirement to sign up. Just create your account either as an affiliate or a vendor. If you choose to have become an affiliate, it’s free. While registering as a vendor, you will be charged a one-time activation fee of $49.95.
Is Clickbank Safe?
Yes, Clickbank is safe. It’s one of the largest affiliate and vendor marketplaces. It’s a legit company with a track record of 20 years of history empowering entrepreneurs across 200 countries.
How to Promote Clickbank Products Without a Website
Let’s break down step by step procedure on how to make money with Clickbank without a website. In a nutshell, it consists of four major steps:
Step 1: Create a Clickbank account
The first step is to go to the Clickbank home page website and click sign up to create your affiliate account. It’s completely free, just fill up all the basic information on the search box like country, first name, last name, phone number, and emails.
After all the information filled in, click continue to term and conditions. On the next page, you will have to read and accept their terms and conditions and accept it all. Now you have successfully applied for the Clickbank account. Then, you will get an email notification from Clickbank about your login details.
Step 2: Choosing a Clickbank product
Now it’s time to decide which product do you want to promote. Before you choose the product, you need to determine which niche do you want to promote.
There are several niches that are selling well on Clickbank, like health & fitness, e-business & marketing, and self-help. Those categories have a decent gravity number on their products. You don’t want to promote a very high gravity score which means a lot of competition on the market, but you don’t want to promote a low gravity score product, which means the product is hard to sell. Gravity score is the Clickbank metric that telling you information on how many affiliates can sell this product over the last 12 weeks.
In a nutshell, when choosing which product you want to promote under one niche category, you can’t solely look at the gravity score. There are several things we need to look at also:
–The landing page offer: does the landing page have a video format to explain the product to the customer. Video base format can help to pitch the customer about the product that can drive sales conversion.
–Customer review: does the product has a customer testimonial on the landing page, which can convince the buyer to buy the product. We need social proof that can help increase the conversion rate
–Recurring commission: it will be great to have a recurring commission so you can earn passive income every month as long as the customer is still using the product. It’s fine also if you promote a one-time commission product as long as the average conversion is quite high.
Step 3: Generating Hoplinks
The last step after decided which product you want to promote is generating the affiliate product link. Simply click the “PROMOTE” red button, then a pop-up hoplink generator box will appear.
Click copy and save your unique affiliate link. Your job now is to promote your affiliate link to get a sale.
Step 4: Promote Your Affiliate Link
The only weaknesses of not using our website, we will have restrictions in terms of putting affiliate links to monetize. If you’re too promotional, your content can be removed. Let’s break down all the channels we can use to promote affiliate products without a website.
Creating a Medium Blog
Medium becomes the best choice for most people when they don’t have a website. You may surprise how you can get traffic from Medium to promote the Clickbank product. Medium has an average of 200M monthly visitors, with 67% of their traffic from Google search. What does it mean for you?
If you write a blog post on Medium by optimizing low competition keywords on the blog title and subtitle, you will be amazed by how Medium blog ranks your blog fast on Google search.
The high domain authority of Medium makes your blog can compete easily with another website on the first page of SERP (Search Engine Results Pages). Ensure to perform keyword research by targeting low competition keywords and high volume search to rank your blog.
Don’t forget to put affiliate disclosure at the end of your blog, mentioning you’re promoting an affiliate product and earning some commission if the reader buys from your link as per FTC requirement. The affiliate disclosure statement is needed as per Medium rules.
So, it’s clear that you can make money from Clickbank even without having a website by utilizing Medium as your blog post. You need to try it out if you have never done it before.
Note: Even a Medium blog can get Google search traffic. Still, it’s not your website, and you’re not a self-hosted website, which means Medium can take your content down if there is any violation rule. That’s why I recommend having your website is the best way to monetize for the long-term business.
Google Free Blog
Maybe few of you know that you can make a simple website from Google to promote the affiliate products and make money. The question comes out to your mind, how can we make money from Google’s free site?
The same as the Medium blog, Google’s site has high domain authority on Google’s eye. It means you can rank your blog easily on a specific long-tail keyword on Google search faster. The same rule of thumb always targets low competition keywords and decent volume searches. The traffic will come passively from Google search after ranking your blog post on the SERP. The good thing is, It’s free to use Google sites.
Creating a Free Ebook
Another creative idea to drive free traffic to your product and service. Yes! Correct by writing a free ebook. Don’t be overwhelmed. You don’t need to write a hundred-page of ebook by yourself. There is a website to get a free PLR ebook like freeplrdownloads.com, in which you can download it free and rewrite the content of the ebook. What makes the PLR ebook different from other ebooks is that you can edit the content and even re-sell it.
The question comes to your mind, where you can upload your ebook to be seen by people on the internet. You can upload your free ebook to pdfdrive.com. This website has an average of 30M monthly visitors and 59% of their traffic from Google search. So, the idea is the same as the Medium and Google site strategy. You need to rank your ebook title with a low competition keyword and decent volume search to be found on Google search engine.
Pdfdrive.com website also has internal traffic with around 37% of its traffic (11 M monthly visitors), which is quite huge!
People on that site are actively looking for a free ebook to download and read by directly accessing the website’s domain. If you’re someone who willing to write an ebook with around 25 pages on your own, I recommend you to write an ebook specifically to educate and promote an affiliate product. So if you upload your eBook using that strategy, you will get both traffic from Google and PDFdrive.com.
Slideshare: Creating a Slide
Another out-of-the-box traffic idea that you may never hear before. Yup! Creating a slide and upload it on SlideShare can bring free traffic to your affiliate offer.
Slideshare has an average of 120M monthly visitors and 80% of their traffic from Google search results base on Similiarweb. This is huge search traffic coming to Slideshare!!
Creating a slide presentation is much easier and faster. It’s not like writing a blog post or ebook in which you need to write around 2000 words. In this case, you will upload your slide presentation on Slideshare and drive traffic from it.
The same rule of thumb applied to Slideshare as you have seen that 80% of the traffic to Slideshare coming from the Google search results. It means we can hijack the traffic to our Clickbank product by creating a slide with a low competition keyword title and upload it on Slideshare.
The Slideshare domain authority is high above 90, which is the same as Medium and Google site. Hence, you can rank your slide presentation on the search page and get traffic. Ensure to put your Clickbank affiliate product link at the middle and end of your slide presentation with a call to action.
Forum Marketing
People think forum is dead, the fact forum still brings traffic, it’s the same as Quora and Reddit which is a big forum that still keeps growing year by year. When you want to promote a Clickbank product, you can use a forum on a specific niche to promote the product even though the audience size is not as large as Quora and Reddit. The way you will promote is by putting your affiliate link in the signature section. Ensure the forum niche you want to participate in having a signature on it. You need to provide value to the forum by helping other members in the forum by answering the question.
You can find the top forum for your niche on Google by typing “Top [Niche] Forum” or go to the free website findaforum.net to find the forum for each category niche. Remember the rule of thumb, don’t spam in the forum but provide value.
Sharing on Social Media: Instagram, Facebook, and Youtube
Nowadays, social media traffic has become the key driver to make a fortune for your traffic source. You will need to try several social media channels to see which one brings your business’s biggest ROI. In the beginning, you will be overwhelmed, but you can start to focus on 2-3 social media channels first until you see some attraction. Luckily, most social media allow us to put an affiliate link to promote it directly, so let’s discuss each social media strategy.
Facebook: the most common way to promote your product on Facebook is by joining a related niche Facebook group and engaged in the group by answering and helping other members. Using this way, members of the group will notice you as an authority figure and checking your profile. Ensure to optimize your Facebook profile with the affiliate offer you want to promote also your Facebook cover. Remember the rule of thumb you need to comply in the Facebook group don’t spam your link but put value in the group. Ensure to use a different new Facebook personal account to separate it from your main Facebook account. As you can see from the picture below, the Facebook personal account optimized his profile to promote the Clickbank product by putting an affiliate link on his profile.
Another method that no one shares a lot is by checking in the Facebook group, the new members who recently joined the group. You will then start to chat with them as a friend and recommend them an affiliate offer relevant to that group niche, as you and the others are on the same interest niche. So, they may be interested in your affiliate offer and purchase it. Remember the rule, be a good friend to chat. You will need to change your Facebook country location so others see you are in the same location when you chat with them.
Youtube: video content is powerful to convert viewers into a buyer. You don’t have to show your face in front of the camera. Many Clickbank affiliate marketer crushes it on Youtube, only presenting animation slide presentation from the article on Google. One of the good examples of Youtube videos promoting Clickbank product Leptitox without showing face can be seen from the “Reviews Vid” Youtube channel as per the picture below. The affiliate offer will be put on the video description, and viewers will click buy the products.
You can do a simple thing like creating a slide presentation, presenting it, and recording your screen using OBS Studio, which is free. If you want to use the premium version, I highly recommend using Invideo to create a stunning video template presentation as other top Clickbank affiliate marketers do. You can create a faceless video fast by only copying other blog content about product reviews and paste it. Then, Invideo will automatically generate a stunning video clip base on the text words using their Artificial Intelligence technology. Several top Clickbank marketers made a killing using this strategy with Invideo.
Instagram: This platform can drive traffic to your product through bio link and Insta story swipe up. The good thing is that Instagram allows us to promote affiliate products on our bio link and Insta story. Instagram page @Ketodietmealplan is one of the great examples of Instagram pages specifically promoting Clickbank products.
Their strategy is quite simple. They post a comparison picture of people before and after following the keto diet meal plan. Some people will be curious about losing their weight and clicking the Instagram bio redirecting them to Clickbank offer Custom Keto Diet program. It’s proof that you can make money from Clickbank using Instagram without having a website. The organic growth follower of the Instagram account becomes the key to drive the traffic to the affiliate offer.
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How about Pinterest & Quora? Can we promote affiliate links directly?
Quora doesn’t allow you to promote affiliate links directly on your answer. You will get banned or deleted. The best way to promote your Clickbank affiliate product on Quora is by putting your affiliate link on the blog post. Then, answer the question by linking to your blog post, which contains the Clickbank affiliate product.
Pinterest allows us to put an affiliate link on the pin, ensure to put hashtags affiliate at your pin description for disclosure. The downside of promoting the affiliate product pin is that you will get less impression than the pin from the verified website (claimed website). It’s because Pinterest gives priority distribution to pins linked to a verified domain vs third-party platforms. Besides, a pin that sends traffic to the website will have a higher conversion rate because we can warm up the audience first and gain trust.
Best Tips: Building Long Term Affiliate Marketing Business
If you want a better standing for your affiliate marketing business, I recommend you have a website for building a long-term business. Here several benefits you can get by having a website for promoting your affiliate product.
- Having a website allows you to give more information based on your perspective, building trust and credibility. It can make your conversion rate higher instead of directing the traffic to affiliate offer right of the bat.
- You can collect an email list using the opt-in form on your website. It enables you to nurture your subscriber list by warming them up before offering them a Clickbank affiliate product. Email marketing can also be used to follow up if they haven’t bought the Clickbank affiliate product.
- Building a website allows you to have a long-term branding name base on your domain website and logo. Your website visitors will remember your domain and logo, which can be returning visitors to your site to read your content or even buy the affiliate product you recommend. I highly recommend you to outsource the logo designer on Fiverr, they have a lot of talented graphic designers with a friendly budget that can help you to create an awesome logo.
- You can promote several Clickbank affiliate products or even another affiliate program under one domain website, which can increase and diversify your total sales.
- You will be able to monetize your website using ads by applying to Google Adsense, Monumetric, AdThrive or Mediavine, also having sponsored post income from brands or company.
- Having a website gives you a competitive advantage in free passive traffic from Pinterest and Google SEO. Both platforms require you to have a website to utilize the utmost benefit.
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Conclusion
It’s possible to make money from Clickbank without a website or blog. There are many ways you can choose to drive traffic to your Clickbank product even without a website or blog like using Medium, Google site, Youtube, Instagram, Pinterest, Facebook, Writing an ebook, and Slideshare. One thing that you need to ensure the platform allows you to put an affiliate link.
However, having a website can give you a personal touch that builds trust and credibility. It also allows you to give more information to warm up the reader, increasing the conversion rate.
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