Apr 21
Clickbank…oh Clickbank! This has been my worst sales week ever. Impressions, click throughs are the same but sales are on a huge decline. So much for the decommissioning of the old Clickbank legacy system which has been by the way postponed to March 15th. Seems as though Clickbank hasn’t really sorted out its problems. Its seems a lot of previously loyal Clickbank affiliates are leaving Clickbank for good. They’re mostly off to CPA networks. Not a bad move if I say so myself. Although I’m not sure of the exact statistics for the percentage of lost sales I can vouch for the fact that the tracking system is nowhere near 100% accurate.
Awhile ago I suspected something was amiss when my campaigns were underperforming. I then did a test purchase with my own affiliate link and lo and behold…I didn’t get the commission despite my affiliate id showing up on the purchase page! I’m still making money on Clickbank so I won’t leave but I’ll definitely start focusing more on my CPA network campaigns. My first CPA campaign has earned me $3.45. Not bad for a start!
Apr 13
I finally received a reply from the MaxBounty affiliate manager and got my problems sorted. I had already done my research and decided on a specific pay per lead offer. This offer pays out $1.40 per lead. A lead in this case is described as an email address as well as the completion of a short survey. There were only 5 other ads for most of the keywords I had targetted so things were looking pretty good….until….
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Apr 11
I was surfing around some of the affiliate marketing forums over the weekend and came across a CPA network section. CPA stands for Cost-Per-Action and a CPA network is pretty much similar to Clickbank accept CPA network merchants pay you everytime a specific action is taken. Most of the merchants on these networks will pay you per lead. So all the visitor has to do is to key in his email address on the merchant site and you get paid! Sounds a whole lot easier than having to actually sell anything. Or is it?
At the forum I was at, there was a lot of talk about how affiliates who were once Clickbank affiliates have now moved into the CPA marketplace due to much higher conversion rates and superior tracking system. After reading this I was tempted to try it out and see…I did some reading up and even applied to some of the most popular ones such as Azoogle and COPEAC. Application and approval took a quite awhile as for Azoogle I had to send via airmail a W8 form. COPEAC approved my application within 2-3 days. I haven’t actually started promoting them yet as I’ve had some questions and am awaiting replies from my account affiliate manager. Here are my thoughts :-
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