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Can You Still Make Money on Clickbank?

June 12, 2019 by Nathaniell
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This long time digital info product marketplace had made many millionaires in the past but is it still a good way for affiliates to make money

I typically trash Clickbank as a low-quality garbage bin for discount digital products worth very little money, and even less of your time.

But the company is still alive and well, and in the digital info-product world I live in, people are still touting it as a great place to find things to promote for your affiliate business.

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I decided to investigate further to see not only if it’s still possible to make money on Clickbank, but if it’s actually possible to make honest money there.

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  1. Are there any quality products on Clickbank worth promoting?
    • Bad Product Examples
    • Good Product Examples
  2. How much money can you make by promoting stuff from the CB marketplace?
  3. How to find high converting, high paying items with low return rates
    1. Further Product & Niche Research
  4. What does the future of Clickbank look like?
  5. A look inside my Clickbank earnings
  6. What Now? (How To Start Making Money With ANY Products Online)

 

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  • How To Make Money On Clickbank
    • 1) Are there any quality products on Clickbank worth promoting?
      • Bad Products Examples
      • Good Products Examples
    • 2) How much money can you make by promoting stuff from the CB marketplace?
    • 3) How to find high converting, high paying items with low return rates
      • Further Product & Niche Research
    • 4) What does the future of Clickbank look like?
    • Bonus: A look inside my Clickbank earnings
    • What Now? (How To Start Making Money ANY Products Online)

How To Make Money On Clickbank

1) Are there any quality products on Clickbank worth promoting?

Yes, there are actually some good products worth promoting within the Clickbank marketplace.

Be aware though, you really need to dig.

And I mean really dig deep.

There is a lot of crap on Clickbank. How do you tell the good products from the bad? This is a matter of judgment, taste, and personal bias, but here are a few pointers.

  • Upfront and honest sales pitch
  • Short and to-the-point product description
  • Informative with little or no hype
  • Up to date information

Here are some examples of good and bad products I found in various niches.

Bad Products Examples

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Bad product 3
OK Ill admit that this is a popular game and probably made money back in the day But stuff like this is short lived and highly competitive

 

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Plenty of products look legit but are total BS Do your homework

Good Products Examples

good product 1

 

good product 2
Ill admit this sales page has a lame design But its got a home made feel to it so the issue just might be that the owner is a cake maker not a web designer Worth investigating

2) How much money can you make by promoting stuff from the CB marketplace?

The question of how much money is “possible” to make gets asked the most.

Of course, there’s no real good answer to that, because it depends on a lot of variables. You can make anything from zero dollars, up to tens of thousands of dollars per month.

For me personally, I don’t make that much from Clickbank, and never have. I take in about $100 per month. It isn’t impressive, but I’ll explain more about my stats below.

Other people swear by this marketplace, and a lot of “how to make money” products are based solely on using Clickbank. To them, Clickbank is the foundation of their business despite the fact that there are thousands of other affiliate programs out there.

In this sense, Clickbank is kind of a relic of the past. Affiliate programs are so diverse nowadays, that you are not restricted to only promoting digital products. Physical products are just as easy to buy online these days!

Plus, as more people start shopping online every year, it’ll get easier and easier to convert them to sales.

3) How to find high converting, high paying items with low return rates

You can find this information right in the little blurb about each product.

  • Initial $/sale: How much money you make for each sale
  • Avg %/sale: The percent commission you make of total cost
  • Avg Rebill Total: If there is a recurring payment, the average total of all rebilled commissions
  • Avg %/rebill: If there is a recurring payment, the percent commission you make
  • Grav: How many affiliates have made commissions in the last 12 days

A high commission, recurring payments, and a high gravity is what you want to look for. Be sure to watch out for that gravity! I found more that one product with HUGE commissions and rebills, but a super low gravity. It was several years old and obviously no longer popular.

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High dollar amount per sale but very low gravity This product probably isnt relevant anymore WoW = World of Warcraft a popular game a few years ago

 

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Low gravity and low commissions Stay far away from these

 

This will also depend on your niche of course, and your particular audience. You are the expert, so think about what your audience wants, and find a product to match them. Here is a popular product that can be used for many niches.

good product 3
The perfect combination High commission High dollar amount per sale recurring commissions and high gravity Start investigating NOW your work isnt done

Further Product & Niche Research

Even with all these combined factors, you still need to know if this product is worth promoting. You need to investigate a few things.

  • The product itself (is it good)
  • Keyword ideas & metrics
  • Competition from other affiliate websites

Very often you’ll find fake reviews from other affiliates that make a product sound awesome, but it will probably be clear that they never tried it. To find out if a product is worth promoting, you can actually buy it (if you have a budget), or you can look for legit reviews from non-marketers or high-quality marketers.

This research process is a good way to review products without having tried them yourself.

4) What does the future of Clickbank look like?

I think Clickbank is going to be around for a while. Digital information products, membership sites, PDF guides, and other information that can be bought and sold on the internet is only going to grow.

I give CB a hard time because I work in the internet marketing industry so I see hyped and misleading products all the time. Doing research for this post though, I did find a few goodies in the marketplace. 

There are other marketplaces out there, but they are in a lot worse shape than CB. Clicksure and JVZoo are two examples. My advice is to avoid Clicksure, but JVZoo has some good stuff as well. 

Bonus: A look inside my Clickbank earnings

I don’t actively promote any Clickbank products these days, but when I got started with affiliate marketing, I followed the crowd and promoted some Clickbank stuff. Here are my earnings from that period.

I pulled in about $600 for the first half of 2011 (my first year at CB) and $1500 for the year 2012. For the following year (2013), I earned about $800. These numbers are not impressive, of course, but they are the earnings of a fresh affiliate marketer.

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clickbank earnings 2014

As I got more disillusioned with Clickbank products, I promoted things less and less. For 2014 I pulled in $1,000 for the year, but it was mostly from random sales and not an income I could count on.

I didn’t work on these websites anymore but was happy to take in a random grand for the year. I do absolutely zero work on these websites except to update them, which means I make about $1000 per hour promoting Clickbank products!

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Don’t take that as a green light to rush over and start promoting info-products through! Though you can still make money on Clickbank, as I have demonstrated here today, it’s not any easier than any other affiliate marketing setup. 

Promote products you like and understand is my main bit of advice. Pick a niche you are interested in, then find products to fit that niche, rather than the other way around. That’s my advice to newbies, at least.

For more experienced marketers, you may find you have the patience and tenacity to see a project through to profitability, even if you’re not passionate about the topic. However, for most people new to making money online, it’s a real struggle to put in the daily hours selling boner pills when you aren’t really sure if this whole “affiliate marketing” thing works or not.

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What Now? (How To Start Making Money ANY Products Online)

I know my Clickbank earnings were pretty poor, but I actually make a full-time income promoting other affiliate programs. I just found that most of what was on CB wasn’t my style, and there was too much junk to sort through.

Don’t be limited by what you find in the Clickbank marketplace. There’s a whole other world out there.

There are literally thousands of other affiliate programs out there with physical and/or digital products for you to promote. Clickbank is just one affiliate network and has a very limited number of things to promote.

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Comments

  1. Jacob

    September 26, 2014 at 2:06 am

    I was just curious. About how many different websites make up those Clickbank earnings you posted?

    Reply
    • Nathaniell

      September 26, 2014 at 2:38 am

      About 2-3 websites, but as I mentioned, that’s certainly not my best work. I make about 1-2 sales per week from these “backburner” websites. Individually, it doesn’t look like much, but as far as passive income goes, I can’t complain about $500-$1000 per year coming in.

  2. James

    September 10, 2014 at 9:27 pm

    At last, an honest appraisal on Clickbank. Thanks Nathaniel for the clear cut advice that apart from myself, the majority of budding Internet marketers will find extremely beneficial (if heeded).

    Reply
    • Nathaniell

      September 11, 2014 at 3:40 am

      You’re welcome James. Glad to help.

  3. Prashant

    September 5, 2014 at 4:43 pm

    Hi Nathaniel,
    You said in your post that there are other affiliate networks where one could promote products. can you suggest me some of the trustworthy good ones?

    Reply
    • Nathaniell

      September 5, 2014 at 10:37 pm

      Other than Clickbank? Shareasale, Commission Junction, and Linkshare are 3 that I use.

  4. sidra

    July 16, 2014 at 7:38 am

    did anyone tell me this website provide job it is real or scam they also asked for membership they have also there more websites [removed]

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    • Nathaniell

      July 16, 2014 at 6:14 pm

      Sorry, I don’t know about that site.

  5. Rachel

    June 2, 2014 at 12:09 pm

    How did you separate prospects from customers as an affiliate of a website not the merchant?

    Reply
    • Nathaniell

      June 2, 2014 at 4:05 pm

      I’m not sure what you mean. Could you explain?

    • Rachel

      June 3, 2014 at 3:08 am

      I have an autoresponder. Then, I would send emails to my subscribers telling them to buy a product. Then if a subscriber bought a product and is still in my prospects list, I would send them emails about buying the product which they have bought. So I need to separate them. Basically means I need to separate buyers and non-buyers so I can send them different emails. How do I do that

      Thanks 🙂

    • Nathaniell

      June 3, 2014 at 3:28 am

      Well, if you’re sending automated messages instead of email blasts, there will be no repeats. You shouldn’t be sending repeated email blasts to the same list promoting the same product or your unsubscribe rate will be high.

      Splitting lists is possible with Aweber Pro Tools but I don’t know much about it because I don’t use it.

    • Rachel

      June 3, 2014 at 7:04 am

      But what if one of my subsribers already buy the product I am asking them to buy, won’t they get angry if I keep on sending emails about the product that they’ve already bought

    • Nathaniell

      June 3, 2014 at 4:31 pm

      There’s no way to know that if this is the first time you’ve had contact with them.

    • Youssef

      July 4, 2014 at 3:09 am

      Not sure if you’re still monitoring this but thought I’d chime in. Separating customers from prospects is often possible but mainly when you’re selling your own product. I’m not sure about Aweber, but GetResponse allows you to track conversions by placing a tracking code on your “thank you for your purchase” page.

      It would then allow you to segment your list based on that. Doing so while promoting products as an affiliate gets trickier, because you most likely do not have access to their websites and cannot insert your tracking code there. Ways around that would be:

      1) Contacting the vendor and asking them to place a custom tracking code for you on their thank you page.

      2) If it’s a CPA offer from, say a company like Peerfly, then you’re in luck because they allow you to add tracking code to the offer’s thank you page through your regular dashboard/control panel.

      Sometimes this whole process gets too complicated so I’d often just go with “if you didnt grab this, better do so now” with the follow up emails. Regardless of whether the person bought or not though, pushing the same product several times especially within a very small timeframe would have a negative effect on your unsubscribe rates.

      Hope that helps!

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