How to promote ClickBank

products for free

Katrina Hier 15th Apr 2021

From being a newbie to the game, all the way to an

experienced super affiliate marketer, ClickBank products
hold a treasure trove of valuable affiliate marketing offers.

The screen below welcomes you to their homepage; to

get started as an affiliate marketer and explore their
marketplace just click “promote” and then “Join
ClickBank”.
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But signing up is the easiest part – what comes next? In

this article today we’ll discuss how to promote ClickBank
affiliate products, and moreover, how to do it for free.

Table of Contents hide

1. What is ClickBank?
2. Can you really make money with ClickBank?
3. How to make money with ClickBank for Beginners
3.1. Promoting ClickBank products without a website
3.2. Resources for beginner affiliate marketers
3.3. ClickBank Best Practices
4. How to pick the best ClickBank products
4.1. Finding a Good Product from the Affiliate
Marketplace
4.2. Choosing a profitable vertical
4.2.1. E-Business & E-Marketing
4.2.2. Self-Help
4.2.3. Health & Fitness
4.3. Check out the ClickBank Affiliate Resources
4.4. Tracking Organic Traffic
5. Promoting ClickBank Products for Free
5.1. 1. Write a Blog
5.1.1. SEO tips
5.2. 2. Start a ClickBank YouTube channel
5.3. 3. Promote ClickBank products on Facebook Groups
and Forums
5.4. 4. Instagram and Pinterest
5.4.1. Instagram for ClickBank products
5.4.2. Pinterest for ClickBank products
5.5. 5. Build an email list
6. Affiliate Marketing & ClickBank

What is ClickBank?
If you’re looking to get your feet wet in the sea of affiliate
marketing – you’re in the right place.

ClickBank is an affiliate network marketplace which

means this is the place you go, as an affiliate marketer, to
find the offers you want to promote. It’s been around
since 1998 – the early ages of affiliate marketing.

Signing up to ClickBank is pretty simple, all you need

to start is: name, email, phone number. Once you’re in,
with over 4000 ClickBank products available to promote,
you can easily find something interesting and profitable
for you.
A low barrier to entry and an enormous selection of
ClickBank products makes this the ideal affiliate network
for beginners. It’s useful for everyone along the
spectrum, but in the industry, it is truly valued for its
newbie-friendly approach and the huge variety in its
marketplace.

First and foremost, ClickBank offers digital products – but

they also have many “physical” products from the
entertainment, lifestyle and gaming verticals. And one of
the best parts about ClickBank is that their products are
especially good for promoting for free!

This article will guide you through the best strategies for
getting traffic organically.

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Can you really make money with

ClickBank?
If you’re very fresh to affiliate marketing, or just a cynic,
you may wonder: is this all legit? Well, we’re here to prove
that with just enough effort and knowledge, it most
certainly is.

Before we get into how to promote ClickBank products,

we’ll cover the pros of their platform. After all, it’s
important to know how to use their assets to your
advantage. And of course, you should know why it’s
beneficial to invest your time in this given affiliate network
to make money.

ClickBank products tend to have exceptionally high

commissions – even rates up to 90%. This is usually
because most of their products are digital and thus
don’t cost a lot to make so those ClickBank products
can afford higher payouts.
Available in over 200 countries, ClickBank is one of
the most international affiliate networks out there.
This is of course an essential consideration for
anyone who has global affiliate strategies in mind, or
simply doesn’t want to be limited to certain geos.
ClickBank offers a 60 day cookie policy which
means that you will still get a commission from
anyone who’s checked out your affiliate offer and
makes a purchase within 60 days. Compared to let’s
say a program like Amazon Associates which only
gives affiliates 24 hours, this cookie policy is
amazing.
One of the few networks providing recurring
commissions; and recurring commissions on
ClickBank products means an ongoing passive
 income for you. And this is any and every affiliate’s
dream
Loads of digital products, and as I said, they’re
good to promote because with minimal
manufacturing costs, come exponentially higher
commissions than physical products. Also, the sales
funnel is shortened (shipping and handling). This
makes delivery, download, usage and satisfaction
that much easier and faster for customers. However,
this can cause higher refund rates.

How to make money with ClickBank

for Beginners
Like I mentioned, ClickBank is ideal for beginners
because they have a very low barrier to entry and a
plethora of products. These are some of the most
important considerations for newbies when getting into
the affiliate marketing industry.

But there are a couple more features that make ClickBank

especially attractive for newbies…
Promoting ClickBank products without a
website

One of the trickiest parts of getting started in affiliate

marketing: building, setting up, and launching your own
website. Want to hear the amazing news?

ClickBank is one of the few affiliate networks that

doesn’t require a website to get started! In other
words, you don’t need any landing pages to start
promoting ClickBank products.

Though you should eventually consider creating a

website and using landers in your affiliate marketing
strategies, it’s always nice to have an easy start with
networks like ClickBank where you don’t need a website.
Read this article to learn more about affiliate marketing
without a website.

Resources for beginner affiliate marketers

Where can ClickBank beginners go to learn about the

industry? Well, there are heaps of options – it’s almost
scary. To start, stick with the few I suggest here so you
can stay focused and avoid getting overwhelmed.

First of all, this ultimate guide for affiliate beginners from

our Voluum blog covers every basic, newbie aspect.

Secondly, ClickBank has their own blog full of articles

that you can check out. Maybe you’ve heard of their
“ClickBank University” series of affiliate marketing
courses – however, that is no longer active.

ClickBank, CB University was started in 2014, but since

then, ClickBank has implemented a new educational
center: Spark by ClickBank. This third resource is paid
but provides hours of video tutorials and more.

ClickBank and Voluum work very closely together –

integration between the two platforms is seamless. Using
the two platforms together will make your affiliate
marketing experience all the more smooth and
successful.

ClickBank Best Practices

With a low barrier to entry can come low quality as well.

Unfortunately you may have to filter through lots of
second rate products and sales pages that might not be
relevant to you.

Thankfully, their search feature is quite advanced

making it easier to find the products you want to sell.

Another challenge that comes with a low barrier to entry

and a thriving network: all the more competition –
especially for some of their more popular products.

Though competition is a sign of a healthy and profitable

offer, you don’t want to get stuck promoting alongside
hundreds of other affiliates. Use ClickBank’s various
product metrics to find a suitable offer for you.

While they have plenty of metrics available before you

actually start promoting an offer, it is still quite hard to
tell how the offer will perform.

Usually you will only be able to measure conversion rates

performance after investing time or money with traffic.
This is where a tracker comes in handy. Don’t let an
ounce of data go to waste, make sure you are tracking
everything.

Now that we’ve covered some of the basic and

preemptive aspects of ClickBank affiliate marketing, let’s
move on to the next most important step: deciding on
which offer or ClickBank to start promoting.
How to pick the best ClickBank
products
Follow these simple steps to find the best ClickBank
products to promote that will be strong enough to bring
traffic organically and make money.

Finding a Good Product from the Affiliate

Marketplace

One of the most decisive steps to making money on

ClickBank products: choosing an offer.

With a slew of metrics available to predict and compare

the performance of all offers and products on ClickBank,
make sure to use them wisely.

Here are the ClickBank metrics to find a product that will

make money:

Average $/Conversion: Average commission that

an affiliate earns for each conversion of the given
offer, including earnings from all sales (initial sales,
upsells, and rebills).
Initial $/Conversion: Average commission an
affiliate initially earns for each conversion of the
given offer, including the commission from any
upsells or order bumps from the first sale. Doesn’t
include affiliate earnings from any rebill payments of
subscription products. Only appears if the vendor
offers recurring products, like memberships and
subscriptions that regularly bill customers over time.
Recurring $/Rebill: Average commission an affiliate
earns for each rebill payment of the vendor’s
product or products. Only appears if the vendor
offers recurring products.
Average Rebill total: Average amount of money that
an affiliate takes as a commission resulting from
rebills.
Grav: “Gravity” performance statistic. This number
represents a unique calculation by ClickBank that
takes into account the number of different affiliates
who earned a commission by promoting this product
over the past 12 weeks. Since more recent
transactions get a higher value, this number can give
you an idea of what products are “hot” at the
moment – as in the amount of affiliates promoting
 and sales made. However, high gravity can also
indicate that there’s a lot of competition for
promoting this product.
Cat: “category” This section provides information
about the ClickBank Marketplace category and
subcategory of the product.

Choosing a profitable vertical

Just a quick search for “ClickBank products” will bring up

a whole bunch of rankings of products from their
marketplace. Affiliate marketers sharing their insight on
what products convert the best.

However, a lot of these rankings come from affiliates who

have a lot of experience, as well as lots of time,
dedication, resources, and blogs.

In other words, they aren’t just focused on one vertical

and finding a few of the best ClickBank products to
promote. Rather, they have the luxury to explore lots of
verticals and products simultaneously.

As a beginner, or someone who isn’t dedicating 100% of

their time and efforts to affiliate marketing – don’t make
that mistake! You must zero in on one vertical, niche.

Though ClickBank has a whole lot of high-commission,

popular products, stick to one category. The good news
is, there are a few exceptionally profitable categories with
great products.
Below are 3 of the top categories for ClickBank
products; these are some of the most conversion-
friendly categories. Additionally, I’ve provided some
examples of specific ClickBank products that are popular
among ClickBank affiliates. The indicated commission
rates are subject to change.

E-Business & E-Marketing

Subcategories: Affiliate Marketing, General, Video

Marketing

Live Marketing HQ (E-business – starting commission

75%)

copywriting guides

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Videly (Video Marketing – starting commission 50%)

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IM Jetset (Affiliate Marketing – starting commission

50%)

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Self-Help

Subcategories: Marriage & Relationships, Survival

Text Chemistry (Marriage & Relationships – starting
commission 75%)

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Patriot Powered Gear (Survival – starting commission

75%)

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Shyness and Social Anxiety System (Marriage &

Relationships – starting commission 75%)

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Health & Fitness

Subcategories: Dietary Supplements, Diets & Weight

Loss, General, Remedies, Women’s Health

Okinawa Flat Belly Tonic (Diet & Weight Loss Products –

starting commission 75%)
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Carbofix (Dietary Supplements – starting commission

70%)

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The Lost Book of Remedies (Remedies – starting

commission 75%)
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Check out the ClickBank Affiliate Resources

Most ClickBank products provide you with affiliate

resources supplied by the vendor or product owner
themselves.

Below are some of the affiliate marketing tools product

owners may provide, making your job a lot easier (if they
are good quality and fit your image / voice!).

I’ve included screenshots of sales pages and more from

multiple ClickBank vendors for affiliate tools. Of course,
this will look different for every ClickBank product so
keep in mind that these are just examples.

To start, here are two sample ClickBank vendor Affiliate

Tools pages:

This one is a Dietary Supplement and weight loss product

from the Health & Fitness category – Organifi.

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This is a Dating product from the Self-Help category –

His Secret Obsession.
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I gathered some of the affiliate tools that as a

ClickBank affiliate you can access through these two
ClickBank products:

Access to a Hoplink (referral tracking URL for

ClickBank affiliates)
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Prebuilt HTML5 Banners, sales pages

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Campaign specific content: variety of tailored

images, text and video – sometimes specially
designed for A/B testing
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Social media content: Facebook ads, Youtube

banners and other media, Reddit, Digg
Email swipe: campaign-specific ad copy

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Sample video embed links: video links and video

thumbnail images for unboxing, ad copy and
 testimonial videos
Coupons
Active contests / promotions
Commission descriptions

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Restrictions notice
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Tracking Organic Traffic

While you have plenty of advantageous factors to think

about when choosing a ClickBank product to promote,
you will really only know how well it will perform once it is
put in practice.

As a rule, your best bet to finding the optimal offer (one

that has a solid, active market but not too much
competition) is to try and test. What does testing entail
exactly?

It means meticulously counting clicks, bounce rates,

conversions, upsells, time spent on your website or
landing page – and much more. Once you analyze these
metrics for a given affiliate offer (or ClickBank product in
this case) you then have to compare its performance to
other offers or products to find the best along with the
optimal approach.

How to do all that? That’s where your affiliate tracking

software will shine; Voluum Tracker can do all that more
and help you grow, scale, and succeed as an affiliate
marketer.

And like I mentioned, ClickBank and Voluum and

seamlessly integrated. This means tracking your
ClickBank offers couldn’t be easier… you have both the
instructions to integrate the two platforms as well as a
video tutorial at your fingertips.
Promoting ClickBank Products for
Free
The big question of the day of course is how to generate
traffic to the affiliate links of these carefully-selected
ClickBank products. For free.

Naturally, as is life, nothing worthwhile comes completely

free.

Bringing free traffic (as opposed to paid traffic) is a time-

consuming job. Granted, you don’t have to spend a cent.
But, to really get started you will have to write at least
around 50 articles, publish videos minimum weekly, post
quality content regularly or spend time active in groups
and forums.

Here are the top 5 ways to generate free traffic for your
ClickBank products to get the conversion rates you need:

1. Write a Blog

This is one of the most tried and true approaches to

getting organic traffic in the affiliate industry. Focusing on
your niche, write a variety of articles and blog posts to
build up credibility in your vertical and get views and
reads as internet users stumble upon your posts and click
on the links to your ClickBank products.

The most popular article formats: reviews of

products, product comparisons, product ratings or
rankings. These blog formats are most conducive to
inserting affiliate links naturally – ie. without being too
salesy. By discussing products honestly and naturally,
readers will enjoy your content more, producing higher
Click Through Rates (CTR) and a higher likelihood of
sharing your content (which means more traffic).

Of course, before you start writing up a storm about your

ClickBank products (I’m picturing some sort of movie
montage) you’re going to need a strategy.

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SEO tips

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is a term you’ve

heard of and should be very familiar with. SEO is the main
source of organic traffic to your website and should
dictate most of your writing strategy. First and foremost
are keywords; these are the search terms that you want
to optimize your content for.

Short tail keywords are more general terms and long tail
keywords are longer and more specific. For beginners
especially, it’s much easier to rank an article for a
long tail keyword because there is much less
competition.

It’s best if your entire blog is focused on ranking for one

or a couple of short tail keywords; it’s much harder to
rank here, so you must stay focused on your niche.

Your blog should have an “pillar article” – this is your

main article that the rest of your content, or a cluster of
your content, links to. This pillar article will be the
longest, most in depth post on a certain topic.

Let’s say your niche is luxury pet products, the articles

that link to this pillar topic could be “luxury products for
cats”, “pamper your puppy”, “the best pet foods on the
market” etc. This strategy is preferred by the Google
algorithm because it maximizes satisfying user intent.

One of the most important factors in SEO ranking is

backlinking – when other sites link your article as
reference. To build backlinks for free you can either do
this through content exchanges with other sites, or
naturally.
By naturally, I mean that your content should be valuable
and shareable – that means all your articles shouldn’t be
just 2k+ word sales pitches. When collaborating with
others, you can have guest writers post on your blog or
write content for another site, including links to your
posts.

2. Start a ClickBank YouTube channel

Promoting your ClickBank products on YouTube is

another great way to drive free traffic to your affiliate
links. If you’re into making videos, vlogging, and have
some decent equipment you can get started right
away. It doesn’t take any money and minimal technical
setup to get a YouTube channel running.

YouTube is nice because, in contrast to blogs, the

competition is not usually as high; there simply aren’t
as many affiliate vloggers as there are bloggers. Though
some industries like beauty are quite saturated, most
niches have significantly less competition when
compared to search engine traffic.

Speaking of which, there are SEO tips for YouTube as

well (after all, YouTube is one of the biggest search
engines out there). Optimize your video title, description,
tags, snippet to drive organic traffic.

For promoting ClickBank products on YouTube there is

another set of popular video formats: unboxing,
reviews, rankings, product comparisons, collabs with
guests/experts.

Always remember to include a Call To Action (CTA) and

remind viewers what to do and where to click. You can
flash CTAs during your video or you can direct users to
links in your description – but either way, always remind
them to increase your chances of a sale.

If starting a YouTube channel interests you, read more

about the best practices, insider tips and more details in
our YouTube guide.

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3. Promote ClickBank products on Facebook

Groups and Forums

Another effective way to bring organic traffic to your

ClickBank product links is interacting with your
followers or people interested in that niche.
On a blog, that usually means replying to comments or
social media activity if your content is shared. On
YouTube this works similarly: reply to comments,
encourage users to subscribe or follow your channel, and
collab with vloggers in your niche.

However, you can also branch out – check out Facebook

groups and forums. Make sure to spot especially active
ones and get posting and commenting. Create social
mediapages and forum profiles on multiple channels to
maximize your online presence. Look to platforms like
Quora too to answer / ask questions and grow your
reputation.

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Of course, it’s essential to find a balance here: do not be

spammy. Try not to engage in spammy threads,
conversations or groups either; those won’t bring you a
lot of useful organic traffic to your ClickBank products.

The articles or resources you decide to post or share

there also should not be too salesy; in fact, it should be
shareable, valuable content that viewers will want to
pass on. This content should then lead to another
article/video with a sales pitch.

4. Instagram and Pinterest

And now we move onto some of the more visually

oriented social media platforms; here, it’s quite easy to
get some engaged traffic. In Facebook groups and
forums, you’ll be more focused on the verbal side of
content rather than photos.

After all, your photo/meme/video can only contribute so

much to a conversation or thread 🙂

If you’re into photography, curating content, or the world

of influencing, then Instagram and Pinterest could be a
great option for you. Most of us are pretty familiar with
how to make an account on either – if you haven’t, it’s
free, easy and fast.

Instagram for ClickBank products

On Instagram, the more interested followers you have,

the more clicks you’ll get on your ClickBank product
affiliate links. And the more commissions 😉 To get big
on Insta, choose a niche, stick to it, create quality and
varied content regularly, engage with followers, use
hashtags strategically.
These are just some of the strategies outlined in my 2021
Guide to Instagram affiliate marketing – find out how to
place your affiliate links, how to curate your feed, and
how to make attractive content.

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Pinterest for ClickBank products

For Pinterest, the basics remain the same: choose a

profitable niche and ClickBank product that you’re
interested in. Here, you simply make your pin and include
your affiliate link along with a catchy photo to attract
commissions.

Try joining Pinterest Group Boards to really boost your

pins and accounts. Connect with other users and
especially group founders to get more activity.
Pinterest is great because it’s so easy to get the hang of:
all you need to do is keep posting and pinning. There are
not a lot of complicated algorithms, SEO, technical
knowledge, or fancy content creation is needed.

If you have a website, use Pinterest and Instagram to get

free traffic that you then drive organically to your blog.
Make attractive, engaging landing pages that will get
users buying and you commissions.

5. Build an email list

With all the fancy forms of communication, social media,

and ads that have been developed, email marketing can
seem a bit retro – however, it is still very relevant.

Email communications can be some of the personal and

active ways to promote your ClickBank products.

As with everything, but with email marketing more

importantly – do not be spammy. You have to be careful
and find a very fine balance between maintaining
communications and not annoying them. Also, a
balance between promoting your ClickBank products and
not being too salesy.
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How to get emails though? Once you drive users to your

website or channel, offer them additional, email-only,
exclusive content.

For example, if you’re writing a 7-day plan to start the

Paleo diet, make the last three days exclusive by sending
it out in email. If users value the contents from the first
four days, then they will enter their email address in order
to get those last three days of tips.

Same goes for videos – if you draw in users with quality

content and then offer the rest through an email opt-in,
you can gather contacts and traffic interested in that
niche.

Affiliate Marketing & ClickBank

So we’ve come to the end of our dive into ClickBank
product promotion.

The majority of everything covered in this article can be

done for free. However, if you’re having trouble putting in
the hours to build up organic traffic or simply want to
boost your affiliate offers, you can consider the paid
traffic route.

Paid traffic is nothing to be afraid of and can actually be a

much stronger tool than you think. It provides you way
more options for trying, testing and eventually optimizing
your campaigns. With a tool like Voluum Tracker you can
even eventually automate those campaigns – basically
taking most of the manual work out of the equation.

Either way, tracking is essential to finding the best

strategy for promoting your ClickBank and other offers.
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