This is the second day of our Clickbank Journal.
Firstly, a very important part of any affiliate marketing campaign is choosing the domain name, there is one important domain name that you must try and register before any other domain name and thats just the product name followed by an extension, so for this product it would be;
forexmegadroid.net, forexmegadroid.org, forexmegadroid,info
however if like me you are unable to register the product name then I would either try adding “the” on to the start of the domain name or going for the product name with a hyphen in between each word, for example;
forex-megadroid.com, forex-megadroid.net, forex-megadroid.org
or
theforexmegadroid.com, theforexmegadroid.net, theforexmegadroid.org
however if all of these are registered too, which would only take a day or two with a decent product lanch then instead I would suggest adding relevant keywords to the end of the domain name, such as software, review, system, robot;
forexmegadroidrobot.com, forexmegadroidsoftware.com, forexmegadroidreview.com
As you can see, each of these domain names I have suggest include the product name this is VERY important if you want to rank in the search engines, and it also helps when trying to promote and sell the product as it looks less spammy than a generic domain name.
The domain name I chose was ForexMegadroidSoftware.com as the above was all registered already, so now I have my domain name, what next?
Well now its time to have a look through the affiliate material and set up the website.
I have to admit that the Forex Megadroid has not got a massive amount of affiliate material and you have to opt in to get your hands on this affiliate material, which I find really annoying but anyways.
Tip: If you find the product your promoting has very little affiliate material then I would recommend just taking their sales page and editing that in to either a landing/squeeze page or leaving it as it is and just adding a link straight to the payment page.
In this case I have taken their sales page and edited it slightly, I have then added a link straight to the payment page which looks like this;
http://1.USERNAME_fxdroid.pay.clickbank.net
If you do decide to use this technique I must warn you that only people that have not already got a cookie stored in their computer will go use your affiliate link, otherwise they will use the one which is stored in their computer. Also you cannot track the amount of hops you receive as it goes straight to the payment page not through their website.
So up to now I have registered a domain name, I have a website up and running and I have all the correct clickbank links in place. An important thing to do is check that ALL the links work on the page so you don’t lose any potential sales.
The website: Forex Megadroid
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The next step I did was by starting to write several articles, these articles were to be hard sale articles which basically explained what the product was, its features and the benefits to the customers. I would then link the articles in several places to my newly developed website.
The way I use these articles is by adding them to several different Forex forums which in turn create traffic and increase my chances of making a sale.
Today, I have written two 500-1,000 word promotional articles and added them to three Forex Forums, each including two links back to my website.
After I did this I also started my link building campaign to help with my search engine rankings for future use. SEO is something that would generally take more than 14 days to take effect so this isn’t really a promotional technique I will be using in this journal however it is very useful for the future.
The way I build links is by submitting 250-300 word articles to ezine articles and after these have been accepted I submit these articles to several other directories, you can find more information about the way I use article marketing here;
The next step was to add the website to Google Webmaster Tools, so I can keep up to date with what keywords I am ranking for and which I am not, and also keep up to date with how many links Google counts towards my website. This is an easy process which involves a quick verification that you have access to the website.
I also submitted my website to Google Analytics, so I could track where the traffic was coming from which would give me a better idea of the effectiveness of each promotional technique. Submitting your website to Google Analytics is free and simple, it takes no more than 3 minutes.
To recap, up to now we have chosen the market and the product we are going to promote, we have chosen and registered the domain name and set up the website, we have added the site to GWT and GA as well as written several articles for promoting through the use of Forex forums and written several articles to submit to the popular article directories.
The next step we will cover, will be more promotionally focused as this is all we now need to do in order to make a sale. Each day from now on I will be writing the journal with hop results from each day until I make the sale.
If you have any questions please just ask here.
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Hi,
I just wonder which article directories are worth to add our articles. Can you show top 5 of them ?
Also, do you use social media marketing ? Wihicj sites are worth to share our articles ?
Thanks.
Hello there, thank you for your comment and questions.
This article may help you in relation to the article directories question; http://back-links.org/ezine-articles-explained-where-to-submit-your-articles/
I don’t use Social Media marketing much for my affiliate marketing when using Clickbank as it tends to be very untargeted. I have received a little traffic through Twitter for another Forex product however it was never very effective.
Hope this helps.
Will.
Hi there,
Your forex site… it doesn’t help that the main image is distorted for the ebook. You will hardly make any sale with an image like that. Not trying to be weird but get a proper ebook image that is large.
Also your domain name doesn’t inspire creativity or anything. Adding ‘the’ to the front of a domain is definitely not the way to go. If anything, choosing your domain should be well thought out with the end users in mind. A person is much more likely to visit: forexmegadroidmethod.com than ‘theforexmegadroidpro.com. Lastly adding ‘the’ in the front ensures that your domain won’t be sellable in the end…especially if you sold sites on Flippa/Sitepoint.
Hello Sarah, thank you for your comments. Just to make it clear I have now sold the website therefore I have no control over what the buyer does.
However the domain name was chosen with SEO in mind. I am sure you know a keyword rich domain name is much more effective than one with out the keyword in the name. I have tested using “the” at the beginning of domain names several times before and learnt that it actually works very well. Therefore that is the main reason I chose that domain name, also I was not focusing on direct or type in traffic so the actual domain name holds no important there.
I am curious as to why adding “the” to the front of the domain name makes it unsellable? Any site is sellable if it has revenue.
Ironically I sold it on Flippa
Thanks
Will.