Recurring commission affiliate products are a game changer when it comes to affiliate programs. With free marketing strategies they are definitely recommended because free strategies tend to take longer and are easily less scalable than paid marketing strategies.

In this article I’m going to discuss some simple strategies you can use to promote Clickbank products for free. You can of course apply these strategies to other affiliate products too!

Promote Clickbank Products For Free – A Niche Website

The first strategy I’m going to mention is niche website building. Building a niche website is a great way to get some traction in your affiliate business. I’ve discussed niche website building in depth in my article create free website and make money.

The main strategy I’ve used involves building a niche website around certain topic or keyword phrase. Before you start, it’s a good idea to find a product you can get behind. Don’t skip this important step because it can cost you later.

Make sure the product you choose has some longevity because you’ll be building your site around it. The last thing you want is your program to fold after spending months building a website or channel around it.

Also choose a product which you can align with somehow. You need to know a little about it too in order to build content around it. Choose a niche which you are interested in or have a passion for. See best micro niche for blogging for some help. You can build a micro niche website around a specific keyword, which can help it gain some traction. As you can see, this site has been built around specific keywords which helps it rank on Google. Free traffic is your ultimately goal with a niche website and this can be tricky.

Promote Clickbank Products For Free – Blogging

Whether you opt for a niche website or not, blogging can be a great free strategy to promote your Clickbank products. You can build a cheap niche website for very little and it’s well worth doing so. Although not completely free, it’s far better than using free blog sites. Google will be much more likely to give your website credit in the search engines if you own the domain.

You can of course go the completely free route if money is very tight. This involves choosing a free blogging platform such as Blogger.com or Hubpages.com. Then, build out your content and share it via social media as much as possible. The more content you can create and get people to, the more likely you will be to sell your products through your content.

Promote Clickbank Products For Free – Targeting

It’s very easy to create a bunch of content, not see any results and give up! Blogging is a slow, laborious process and it takes time to build up your content and get it seen. Once you have built a lot of content, that content is an asset and can be used to generate traffic and sales. If you stick at it you should see a slow steady increase in your traffic and sales. But there’s a few ways you can speed up this process:

• Build a List – An email list can increase your sales dramatically
• Target your content at the right people – Ideally they already want your product before they find you
• Put a call to action on each blog post – Link to your product many times
• Create authority – When you are seen as an authority in your niche, people are more likely to trust your opinion and buy from your site.
• Focus on the benefits not features of your products – People care about WIIFM – “what’s in it for me?” Don’t lose them by talking about features and stick to benefit driven call to actions on your site.

List Building

List building is a must for affiliate marketers. You can get free autoresponders (list building software) but I recommend paying something for one because the free ones tend to be more troublesome. Here’s the one I use.

If you’re determined to succeed as an affiliate marketer, it’s probably the best investment you can make. However much content you build your visitors can always just leave and never return. So on your blog, they only have a small window of opportunity to click on your affiliate link and make a purchase. Once gone they are gone forever.

By building an email list of subscribers you extend this time period dramatically. You can keep in touch with your subscribers for months, weeks and even years and decades.

Targeting Your Content At The Right People

Your content should be very focused content which targets the right “buyer” traffic. “Buyer” traffic is the kind of traffic which coverts into sales.

A review site, for example makes for a very targeted site because people look for reviews just before buying something. Your content should attract the right kind of people to your website. If it doesn’t you’re unlikely to make many sales. See why is target market important.

With a blog or niche website, you’ll be creating a lot of content around your chosen topic, which is reflected by the product you choose. So choose a product which you would buy yourself. That way your content will be easier to create and you are more likely to attract your kind of people to your content.

Links (Or Call To Action) On Each Blog Post

An easy way to do this is by placing a banner advert on each post you write. You can also link within your text to the product from Clickbank which you choose to promote. Ideally do this throughout your content. Some people will only see a certain post and not look through the others. So a clear call to action at the bottom of each article you write is a good idea.

Give your readers every opportunity to find the product you are promoting.

Create Authority + List Build + Benefits Not Features

A good way to create authority and build a list is by creating your own ebook. People like to download things from a website so they can read them at a more suitable time. So use an ebook you have created to create some authority on your site and also lead people into your email list at the same time.

In your posts, it can be easy to talk about the features of your products. “This products has so many videos, there’s lots of members, etc.” Stick to the point in your copy since most people are too busy to read all this.

All they want to know is what’s in it for them? What can your product do for them? These are the benefits NOT the features. A good product should need you to do much actual “selling” anyway. You just need to create the content around it and let your visitors find the sales pages and checkout pages which are usually already done for you.

Create A YouTube Channel To Sell Your Clickbank Products

A YouTube channel is one of the best ways to sell a Clickbank (or any affiliate products) for free. However, it does take time and effort like all free strategies. Ideally choose a product you can create some videos around somehow. You should be able to create many videos over several months.

Ideally one every day over a long period of time. initially, this is slow much like blogging. But if you stick at it and create some useful content regularly, you should see visitors and clicks slowly increasing over time.
As you get better at it, you should start asking your visitors to subscribe to your channel. That way they’ll be notified of any videos you post.

You can recommend products directly through your videos or have links within your channel. Your products must in some way relate to your videos. Again, much like blogging this is a long term project. YouTube has millions of channels and videos so you’re got a lot of competition. However, it is still less competitive than blogging so if you’re prepared to put the work in it can be a winner!

Facebook

Facebook can be used to generate traffic to a website or YouTube channel. Or you can just send people directly to your affiliate product on Clickbank. To use Facebook for free to generate leads takes a little more preparation than using the paid platform. But it’s free!

First, set up your profile so that it’s easy for people to see your offer. Place your ebook cover or marketing banner on your profile feature image. I have my ebook here so people can access it when they browse my profile. Also clean your profile up so it looks fairly straight forward and professional.

Join Groups Through Facebook

Facebook has a number of groups in all kinds of topics and niches. Join many groups in your particular niche. Think about who would be interested in your topic or products and find groups which are suitable.

Don’t spam these groups with your links, but connect with other people and spend some time in the groups getting to know the rules. Genuinely try and help people with their problems and comment and be useful. Facebook has strict rules about spamming and you’ll get kicked out if you do it. So take a little time and get to know what’s what in each group. Eventually you should connect, make friends and be able to use Messenger to talk to people in the groups.

People will visit your profile and find your product. Again, as with all of these “promote Clickbank products for free” strategies, this takes time, patience and effort.

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Clickbank is a great place for affiliate marketers to start out. If you choose a good program, ideally with recurring income built in, and a good marketing strategy, you can get some traction.

For starters you’ll need a Clickbank account which you can join for free. Head over to Clickbank and open an account.

Clickbank For Dummies

Once you’ve opened an account you should choose a product to promote. You can do this by heading over to the the Clickbank marketplace. You should find the marketplace tab at the very top of your Clickbank dashboard when you log in to your account. You can see in the image below “marketplace” is the third in from the left. Click on that tab and it’ll take you there.

Once in the marketplace you can browse through many products. Ideally choose a product which you have an interest in. You can also browse products by using categories on the left hand side of the page. (see image below).

Once you’ve chosen a category you can sort the products by “gravity”. “Gravity” is the number of products which are being sold every week. SO the higher the number the more of that particular product is selling.

With a low gravity of less than 20, for example, the product may be unproven, so it’s more of a risk to attempt to sell it. With a popular product with a gravity of 400+, you’ll likely have a lot of competition in terms of content generation, if that’s how you choose to promote your product. More on this later. Ideally, choose a gravity somewhere between 50 and 250+ to give you the most chance of making sales.

Clickbank For Dummies – Clickbank Engine

Clickbank engine is a website which you can use to help you find good products to promote on Clickbank. It can help you sort out which products to chose based on topic (niche) and a number of other relevant categories such as gravity and recurring commissions. Recurring commission affiliate programs are far better than regular ones because you can earn an income much more quickly from them. They pay you over and over again from membership sales. So you’ll receive a monthly recurring income from sales rather than a single commission.

Clickbank For Dummies – Promote Clickbank Products For Free

There’s several ways you can promote Clickbank products as an affiliate marketer. Two simple strategies are through using a blog or creating a YouTube channel. You can also build a niche website around your topic too. Create content around the products you have chosen and post it on YouTube or on your website.

This is why it’s important to choose products which you align with. If you choose a product you are not interested in, it’s far more difficult to create content around your niche. See also micro niche affiliate marketing.

One of my favourite ways of promoting affiliate products online is through building a niche website by targeting specific keywords. See how to create a free website and make money using this strategy.

Creating A Blog To Sell Your Products

Having a blog is one of the simplest and cheapest ways to promote affiliate products. With a blog, your goal is to draw traffic (visitors) to you via your content and then offer your Clickbank or other affiliate products through your content. You can do this by using affiliate links within your content, placing banners on your site and building an email list and getting your visitors to subscribe to it.

A blog only works though if you create good content and get eyes on it. You also need to carefully align your content with the products you are promoting. So your content should be a good match for customers of your product. A good way to do this is with a review website. If you look on Google for your affiliate product, you’ll probably see a number of reviews for it – particularly with Clickbank. If you can find a product with less competition, you can more easily get your content to rank highly for its main keywords.

Reviews are great because they usually draw in potential customers looking to purchase something. The key is to write some great content and get Google to rank it at the top of the search engine. You can also promote your content through social media and other channels too. But ultimately you want it to rank on Google so you get free traffic.

Creating A Channel On YouTube

YouTube is another great way to generate content and lead people to your affiliate products. Once you’ve created a YouTube account, you can post videos which you have made and lead people through your links to affiliate products. Again you need to gain the attention of potential customers, not just random people. So you’ll need to create useful content around your chosen topic or niche.

Use the search bar in YouTube to find keyword variations which match your particular niche. Type into the search bar the first few keywords which relate to your products or niche. You’ll see a bunch of keyword ideas which relate to popular searches already being made on the site. Create YouTube videos and target these keywords within your titles and descriptions. (see example in image below).

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