It is possible to earn Clickbank passive income by selling products from Clickbank. But it’s not easy! The best way to earn a passive income from an affiliate marketing program is to choose products which pay you a recurring income. Recurring commission affiliate programs tend to be things like software packages and memberships.
To find recurring income programs on Clickbank, goto CBEngine.com and scroll down on the left to find recurring commission programs.
Click on the CB Recurring tab on the left and this should bring up a huge list of products you can sell which offer recurring commissions.
Recurring commission affiliate programs are far better than the others. They can give you a passive income if you sell products to the right people. Potentially, a recurring commission program can give you an income for life! See lifetime commissions affiliate program.
Clickbank Passive Income – Choosing A Product
Choosing a product is pretty important because you’re going to be creating a resource website based on it. There’s many ways you can promote affiliate products, but with a low paying affiliate product, like you’d find on Clickbank, it’s best to use the cheaper strategies.
So, you’ll need to create content based on the product for the strategy I’m going to share. See also get traffic to your website free, for more strategies.
Once you get to the product page, scroll through and look at products which jump out as something you can use. Ideally, you’ll be interested in the topic or product yourself. It’s much harder to create consistent content for a topic you don’t have some kind of affinity with; so this is worth taking some time over.
Clickbank Passive Income – Gravity
The gravity is denoted on each product you see in the stats section under “grav”. “Grav: is short for the 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.
A high gravity isn’t necessarily a good thing, because it also means a lot of competition. Too low a gravity means the product isn’t being sold, or it’s just newly released. See also, how to use Clickbank market stats.
A gravity score under 20 might not sell very well, or it might be a new product. A gravity over 100 might be a little competitive, in terms of other affiliates promoting the product. More recent transactions are given a higher number for gravity, so a high score can mean an item is selling well. Ideally, choose a product which you want to promote and which has a gravity score between 20 and 100.
Choose A Program With Longevity
Ideally you’ll also want to choose a program which offers massive value and has longevity. It’s going to take some time to promote it using the strategy I’ll be detailing. So you don’t want your product to drop off when you’re just getting started.
It can be an idea to read a few reviews about your product first, before choosing it. Ideally purchase it too, so you can review it and get to know how good, or bad it is! If you don’t like the product, I wouldn’t recommend promoting it. You need a program you can genuinely get behind and endorse. Otherwise, you’re incongruence will show in your content and it’ll be much more difficult to keep building your website and/or YouTube presence.
There’s a huge amount of crap on Clickbank, so make sure you choose a program which is good and which you can genuinely get behind! Again, this is pretty important for a number of reasons:
- If your product isn’t great, it won’t sell whatever you do
- If you don’t believe in your product, or genuinely like it, it’s going to be difficult to create content and sell it congruently.
- Choosing a product which doesn’t last means you’ll waste your time if it shuts down
- If you don’t buy your product, and get to know it, it’ll be very difficult creating content about it, and reviewing it genuinely.
So make sure you do your research and find a product you like and which fits the above criteria. Don’t rush this part. Rushing it, or choosing a bad product will lessen your chances of making a Clickbank passive income for its sale.
Here’s An Example Product I Found
Here’s a product I found which meets the main criteria:
Gravity: (40.62) – Between 20 and 100
Longevity: Health and fitness niche is very popular and it’s been around since 2016
Recurring commissions – yes!
The only downside it that this is a popular niche and it can present a problem if you’re creating content. Too much competition limits how well you can do getting website traffic. But I’ll use this as an example.
Example #2 – Clickbank Passive Income
Here’s another product I found which is more suitable for this particular piece of content (Clickbank passive income). Plus, it’s more aligned with my website in general too.
However, on closer inspection it doesn’t meet our criteria for gravity and this could present a problem.
- Recurring commissions – yes
- Gravity – score is less than our minimum (1.97)
- Longevity – first seen 2013 so has been around a while. But with such a low gravity this could mean the sales page isn’t working very well, or that something isn’t working with the product.
Clickbank Passive Income – Selling Your Product
Once you’ve chosen a product to promote, you can start to look at building an information resource around the topic of your product. If you’ve chosen a yoga product, you’ll create a website around that topic. If you have chosen something else, such as the Clickbank Passive Income course, that will be the focus of your website.
It’s worth keeping in mind too, that certain topics are much more competitive than others. Top niches such as money making online, health and fitness, dating and relationships are usually pretty competitive and this makes it harder to gain traction in your niche. This is partly why you’re choosing recurring income products. It takes fewer sales of recurring income products to make a good income, than from one-off commissions.
Take your main keywords from your product and paste it into Google’s keyword planner. In the case of the yoga product, you could use “yoga burn challenge”, or “yoga burn” as your seed keyword. In the case of the other product (Clickbank passive income), you could use that as your seed keyword.
Find A Keyword Or Phrase Which Encompasses The “Idea” Of Your Niche Site
Ideally choose a keyword or phrase which encompasses the idea of your website. With a keyword domain name, you can get a ranking advantage with the search engines to give you more traffic. It’s only a small factor, but it can make a difference. Here’s a few keywords which came up when looking at “yoga online”. Have a look through keyword ideas and identify a keyword which you would like to build a website around.
I like the idea of “Yoga class online beginners” as it seems to meet our target audience. With the Yoga product above, you’ll want lots of hungry buyers for your product. This could be people looking for these kinds of phrases. With a niche website, we’re going to attempt to get a website up and ranking, so it gets free traffic and you make sales.
A quick online search with and without quotation marks can give you an overview of your competition. Here’s what came up for “yoga class online beginners”.
There’s clearly a lot of competition for this term and a lot of paid advertising too. If you browse through the websites which show for paid advertising, this can also be another way of finding a suitable product to promote, too.
Ideally don’t choose keywords which have heaps of advertising at the top of the search. This will mean that even if you rank your website, it will still be buried under all the paid advertising listings! Not great for traffic! If you find there’s too much competition for your idea, go back and find another keyword or product. Then start researching the keyword data and competition again.
Using The Clickbank Passive Income Example
With the other product “Clickbank passive income”, Google’s keyword planner shows only 30 searches a month for this. That’s not really enough traffic to build an entire website around. Ideally you want to have over 50 searches for your main keyword each month. When you search on Google, you want less than 10 million competing pages, and less than 20,000 phrase match pages.
Here’s what the number for phrase match looks like:
Clickbank is also a trade name, so it could be an issue using it in your domain name.
Finding a good domain name with your main keyword in it can take some time. This website was built in the keywords “affiliate marketing mentors online“. I wanted “affiliate marketing mentor/s” but the domain was already taken. The key is to find a good name for the site which doesn’t have too much competition. Again this is worth spending some time on. If you choose a keyword with too much competition it will be much harder to rank your website and get traffic.
Equally, if you choose a keyword which doesn’t get many monthly searches, you may not get enough traffic either.
Building Your Resource Website
Once you find your keyword which gets monthly traffic and hasn’t got too much competition, buy a domain name with your keyword in it. If you can’t get the exact domain, get one which is close or has some extra words at the end. This article explains the process of building a niche site and creating content. If you’ve chosen something you have a passion for, this is so much easier. To find keywords which you can create content around, use your seed keyword and look at the related keywords which show up on the keyword planner.
Here’s a few keywords which came up for the “seed keyword” passive income:
Go through the same process as you did for finding your domain name. Use long tail keywords which have the fewest competing results on Google. Remember too, that you can pick up free traffic from Bing, Yahoo, Duckduckgo and other search engines which are less popular than Google.
Clickbank Passive Income – Summary
So, to earn a passive income from Clickbank, you can do many things. You don’t need to use this particular strategy as there’s lots of others. Checkout how to get free traffic to your website for some more ideas.
The strategy I’ve shared has worked for me, but it takes some time and effort before you’ll see it working. Ranking websites on Google can be tough, and you should expect this strategy to take several months before you see sales coming in. To help generate a passive income from Clickbank, it’s worth using programs which offer recurring commissions.
If you don’t have the patience to use a niche website, I suggest using high ticket affiliate programs and using paid marketing.
Once you’ve built your website, you can promote products directly from your site using banners and you can create an email list of subscribers. I definitely recommend building an email list because it will make a massive difference to your sales. Offer something of value to your website visitors and get them to opt in to your list. See the power of email marketing.
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