How to Make Money with Blogger and ClickBank

ClickBank is an affiliate marketing website that allows blog and website publishers to earn money by promoting digital products. Each time a reader clicks one of your affiliate links and purchases a product, you earn a commission. Sign up with ClickBank and find a product that you want to promote. Create an affiliate link and add it to a post on Blogger to begin promoting the product and possibly earning money.

Instruction:

Step 1

Navigate to ClickBank.com in your Web browser. Click the "Log In" link at the top of the page, and enter your user name and password. If you do not have ClickBank account, click the "Sign Up" link and follow the instructions to create one.

Step 2

Click the "Marketplace" link at the top of the page. This brings you to a new page showing the products available on ClickBank. Click one of the categories on the left side of the page or type a keyword in the "Find Products" field at the top of the page to search for products.

Step 3

Click the green "Promote" button after locating a product you want to promote. This displays a new window. Confirm that the name displayed next to "Account Nickname" is the same name that you used to log in to ClickBank, and then click the "Create" button.

Step 4

Click the blue text under "Copy the following HopLink HTML code." This highlights the link. Press "Ctrl+C" to copy the link to the Windows clipboard.

Step 5

Open a new browser window or tab, and navigate to Blogger.com. Enter your Google account address and password if prompted.

Step 6

Click the "New Post" button. This brings you to the post creation page. Type the content of the post as you normally would. Click the "Edit HTML" tab at the top of the post editing page when you are finished.

Step 7

Click the location where you want the ClickBank link to appear, and then press "Ctrl+V" to paste the link for the ClickBank product you selected. If a reader clicks the link and purchases the product, you earn a sales commission.

How to Attract Web Traffic

A small business website may have several purposes, but it needs traffic to accomplish any of them. Whether your website sells products or services, gives information about your business or contains information of interest to potential customers, people have to be able to find your website before they can deal with your company. Once people visit, the website has to be useful and attractive enough to keep them there and get them to come back. There are several techniques that can increase traffic, help you evaluate your website and ultimately gain customers.

Pay for

Trafficquick way to gain traffic, especially for a new website, is to pay for visitors in a pay-per-click campaign. Sites that offer this service include Google and Bing. You choose keywords that relate closely to your site and, when your listing comes up during a search and someone clicks on it to visit your site, you pay a fee for this visitor. Keywords that are unique to your site are less expensive than common keywords and the visitors they generate are more interested in your site.

Publicize Your Domain

In addition to Internet-based initiatives, you have to get your website address out into the off-line world as well. A key strategy for offline publicity is to make sure your domain is prominent on all your publicity and marketing materials as well as your business card and letterhead. Your email address has to feature your domain as well. Use @yourdomain.com instead of a Gmail, Yahoo or other address. That way you publicize your domain every time you send out an email.

Promote Your Site

Actively promoting your website to gain traffic is a lot of work but one of the most effective activities. You can start by issuing a press release to your local media when you first go live and follow that up with releases to Internet news sites. Join LinkedIn, the social networking site for businesses, to gain business credibility. Writing regularly on a subject related to your business on a blog or other site and answering questions in your field promotes you as an expert and brings visitors to your site. Leaving helpful comments on sites related to your business is also very effective as long as you don't make a nuisance of yourself and don't promote your business too overtly.

Social Media

Using social media to promote your site is a free way of publicizing your business. You can create a company page on Facebook and use your personal account to post messages about your business activities. Google Plus offers similar functions and allows you to group your business contacts together. Twitter is more useful once you have made a name for yourself and can accumulate enough followers to make regular tweeting worthwhile. If your business is multimedia-oriented, you can share pictures, video and music on Tumblr. Social-media promotion ensures that your contacts and potential customers are reminded regularly of what your business has to offer.

Freebies

great way to encourage visitors is to give away something for free on your website in return for registration. You have to require visitors to fill out a form with some contact information to make sure each visitor only gets one free item. Small businesses that don't have much money can give away free information in the form of articles or e-books. Inexpensive items that feature your logo or a message from your company do double duty by advertising your business after bringing in visitors.

Evaluate

Once your website receives regular traffic, it's time to evaluate its function and your campaign. The site has to have traffic analysis software installed that lets you see how many visitors are returning, where they are coming from and where they are going on the site. Examples of software that accomplishes these functions are Webalizer and Analog. If you open a Google account or already have one, you can also use Google Analytics. If the website has e-commerce or is collecting visitor information, you have to look at how well it is accomplishing its purpose. Such software lets you see which of your traffic-promoting activities are the most successful and which parts of the site are popular. You can then make corresponding changes on your website and adjust your campaign.

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• Entrepreneur: How to Attract Visitors to Your Site
• Web Marketing Today: How to Attract Visitors to Your Website
• Interactive Marketing: How to Launch a New Website and Quickly Attract Traffic and Generate Sales
• How to Attract Web Traffic
• Blogger: Blogger Content Policy
• ClickBank: Get Started as an Affiliate

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• Webalizer Traffic Analysis
• Analog Traffic Analyzer
• Google Analytics and Google+
• Facebook
• Tumblr
• ClickBank

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