When I first started learning affiliate marketing I looked for free traffic sources for Clickbank products.
Clickbank is the “go-to” place for digital products which affiliates can use to earn money online. Digital products too, tend to pay much more than physical products like you’d find on Amazon, for example. Amazon pays around 3-11% commissions on products that affiliates refer to them. Clickbank products tend to pay more than this – usually around 40%.
However, it’s much easier to sell a physical product from Amazon. Most people are comfortable buying from Amazon too and less comfortable buying some digital course from a site they don’t know. Still, this is how I started out and if you can make 40% commission on a product and get free traffic, it’s all good! The question is “how”?
Free Traffic Sources For Clickbank
One of the first free traffic courses for Clickbank I used was Google. Google is a monster now but back in the early 2000’s it was much easier to get free Google traffic.
You can still use the same techniques I used back then. But you’ll need to do a better job of it because there’s so much more competition now and Google is far better at ‘weeding’ out poor quality affiliate websites which offer no value. So you’ll need to create some value.
Here’s the strategy I also share in my article Clickbank Trick in more depth.
Free Traffic Sources For Clickbank – A Niche Website
Yes a niche website is a website built around a very specific idea. If you also use a very specific keyword in your domain name, it can help you gain some more authority in Google’s eyes, although it doesn’t count for as much as it used to. I’ve used the keyword domain strategy a number of times for website clients, my own affiliate sites and for my own kung fu school! Each time I can definitely say it’s helped.
One photographer friend of mine landed a top placing in Google after I built a site for him, much to the dismay of the other longer-serving photographers in the area!
So keyword domains do work, but it also depends on your relative competition and of course the content on your site too. Since I’ve discussed this topic in my article Clickbank Trick, I’ll move on to the next strategy.
Free Traffic Sources For Clickbank – Building Your Site
Once you’ve got your niche website up and running, you’ll need some content for it. Using Google’s free keyword planner, you can type in your main “seed” keyword. This should give you a bunch of longer tail keywords within your niche. By scrolling to the least searched for items, and back to the most competitive ones, you should be able to find some long tail keywords which are relatively uncompetitive.
Write articles for as many of these as you can using the strategy I talk about in my ebook “Niche Blogging For Profit”.
Basically this involves finding the keywords in your niche which are less competitive than the others. With a keyword domain name, and some long tail keywords which are generated from the same keyword, your site should start ranking for one or two of these keywords.
I built this website around the keywords autopilot money making software. Read about the strategy I used in my article create free website and make money. It includes a variety of strategies you should implement on your niche website which will help you build free traffic sources for Clickbank products, should you choose the Clickbank route. Here’s a few of them:
- Build your niche website
- Create keyword targeted articles on it
- Use anchor text linking to your keyword targeted articles (as above)
- Put social share buttons on your site to encourage shares
- Use a social media autopost plugin to automatically share your content when you publish it
- Use post planner to share older articles on social media
- Blog comment linking back to your content
- Write articles off-site using hubpages and ezinearticles.com and link back to yours
- Guest post on similar websites to your own
A Lot Of Work – Alternative Strategy?
This all sounds like a lot of work right? Yep it is! But we’re after free traffic and it’s worth putting in the work to get it because it can mean free sales. If you want to do it faster, paid traffic is the way to go. However, with paid traffic you take a larger risk of your capital. Especially with low value items like you’ll find on Clickbank it’s much harder to recoup your marketing budget and make a profit.
See PPC affiliate marketing for beginners for more on this strategy. Right now, we’ve got some more free traffic sources for Clickbank to get to!
YouTube – Yes Of Course
YouTube is the second largest search engine on the internet next to Google. It’s also less competitive than Google too. So it makes sense to use it if you’re a marketer selling Clickbank products.
A lot of people prefer YouTube to Google and do their research there instead of reading an article too. YouTube is competitive too but if you’re looking for free traffic sources for Clickbank products, you should definitely be on YouTube. YouTube can be used in a similar way to Google. You can create content and target long tail keywords in your video titles.
A good way to find your keywords is to start typing your “seed” keyword into the YouTube search bar. So if you’re Clickbank product was a fitness related one, for example, type “fitness videos” into the search bar. You should see a number of search ideas which are already popular underneath your search bar.
Another Example
Of course this is a massively competitive topic, so you’ll get a lot of competition. Let’s look at another example. Here’s a product I found on Clickbank which will be less competitive than a fitness product. This is a tool which coverts text into realistic speech.
Ideally, find a product which you can relate to and get behind. To get free traffic from YouTube, you’ll need to create a lot of content. So pick something you have an interest in so this step is easier for you.
Next head over to YouTube again and type in the main keywords. You should see something like this.
If you head to YouTube and type in these keywords, you’ll also see a few videos which have been created using the tool itself. So this can be a clever way to use the product to sell it too!
Free Traffic From Quora
Yes Quora can be a great little traffic source too and you can answer questions relating to your product, linking to your website content.
This takes some time and dedication and many people won’t purchase your product. But if you keep at it, you should see some traffic to your site and sales if you target the right questions.
Affiliate marketing on Quora is something to be approached carefully and you can’t link directly to your Clickbank or other affiliate products. But if you have created a niche website and some useful content, you can link to your content if you provide some useful content in your answer and the link is another resource which helps answer the question.
Like I said though this should be done with care. Read their terms and conditions and don’t spam the site or you’ll just lose your account and your answers will be deleted.
Facebook Free Traffic
Here’s another little strategy I’ve used to get free traffic from Facebook.
Set up your profile so you have an obvious image of your product in your profile which links to either your website, an email capture page or directly to your product. Here’s one I’ve used in my featured profile picture. It leads to a landing page (click image to see).
Once you’ve done this, find groups on Facebook which you can join and interact with people who are interested in your particular topic. So if you’re promoting a product to do with stamp collecting, search for groups which are a good match. Use the search bar at the top of Facebook to find the groups and join them.
Again, you need to abide by the rules of each group and you can’t go spamming your affiliate link or you’ll get banned by most. But you can interact and find other people with similar interests. Join in the chat and make friends, help people with problems and get busy in the groups. Again this is a slow strategy at first but over time you should see some traction if you take it seriously and work at it.
See also get traffic to your website free!