My Experience With Clickbank AM as a Newbie

[scarecr0wz]

Every creator, website I mention in this thread is not affiliated to me in anyway

Just a little about me I'm 17 y.o and live in a 3 tier country

So the journey for me started a couple of months ago when I was researching dropshipping and realised that I dont have the budget for it. So I started to look for other ways to make money online, I stumbled across the BlackHustlers channel. I was amazed that he promoted shitty products from ClickBank on his instagram pages and managed to get crazy 200% ROI's. I was desparate and thought that AM was that easy. Neadless to say I was a fool.

The next day I signed up for a free trial on clickfunnels copied the same landing page that he used, and started to reach out to instagram feed pages. Most of them didn't even reply, but eventually I bought a feed and story promo for 40$ promoting a manifest offer. Got a couple of hops but that's it. I was questioning myself why I havent made tons of sales yet.

I gave up on AM for a couple of weeks thinking that it was just a scam, until I found Dave Mac's channel. I learned most of my knowledge from his channel and decided to give ClickBank another shot. I was going to do a exact match brand bidding Bing campaign. So I bought a domain and signed up for an unbounce 14 day free trial. Unfortunately Bing just wouldnt accept any of my credit cards (still dont know the reason why). I didn't let my hands down and successfully made a Google AdWords account. I deposited 40$ and made my first campaign, promoting a hair offer I got 5 clicks until my account got banned because my landing page was super shitty and didnt have a ToS. I was so frustrated and was stuck not knowing why it happened. I did some googling and found out about threshold accounts. I found a seller on BHW and bought an account from him. I was motivated thinking that with 350$ I would make at least a 1000$. I started my exact match brand bidding campaign for 7 days spent 160$ and no sales so I paused the campaign and once again I was very frustrated with myself. And decided not to comeback to clickbank anymore

To my surprise the day I paused my campaign I actually got my first sale for 30$ but I found out about it only after 2 days by accident. Honestly it was the feeling I have experienced in quite some time, I immediately logged back in to my RDP but my account was banned for violating the counterfeit goods policy, but I did not care because I knew that it was possible to make money online.

I didnt want to do brand bidding anymore because the cpc was crazy high so I did some more research and found Ivan Mana's youtube channel. I watched his case studies and decided to buy another adwords account, use a tracker, and take it slow. I spent a couple of hidours making a nice looking landing page and understanding how to setup a tracker. I setup the campaigns and started to notice that for some reason my keywords that appeared in my clickmagick report werent unique, apparently because google doesnt show the exact search query that the user typed in to show the ad my broad match keywords basically didnt give me any data. So I paused the campaign to research exact match keywords and once I found them I deleted my other adgroups and made new ones with exact match keywords, and my account got banned once again for counterfeit goods violation.

And that's where I am right now, should I buy another account? Or try something else I have one more shot at making it work, if it doesnt work out I wont be able to fund it anymore. I know that I made a ton of mistakes but it was all a learning experience, I would greatly appreciate some tips and tricks

 

[QualityService]

Very nice read. You are on the right track. PPC is the fastest way to earn money but it does require some testing.

I would suggest you to create and use real adwords and bing ads accounts as threshold accounts are not working anymore. You would waste money on them.

And if you are unable to create bing ads account using your real card, then contact their support. Adding card in bing ads is extremely difficult as they have setup counter measures to stop abusers to add vccs etc. So due to this innocent accounts also suffers.
If you contact their support, they will help you to add your payment method.

Regarding adwords, you have to researched before creating a landing page. There are certain guidelines to follow else they will disappove or even ban your account which is what happened in your case.

Clickbank is not easy if you are just starting out. I would suggest you to join other networks like maxbounty, cpabuild and run campaigns using their offers. That's your best chance to earn consistently. You will also learn and gain experience in the process. But make sure to research thoroughly what is allowed in CPA marketing and what is not. You can check other people campaigns, landing pages etc to know what's working and allowed in adwords and bing.

I hope it helps.

QualityService

 

[scarecr0wz]

Very nice read. You are on the right track. PPC is the fastest way to earn money but it does require some testing.

I would suggest you to create and use real adwords and bing ads accounts as threshold accounts are not working anymore. You would waste money on them.

And if you are unable to create bing ads account using your real card, then contact their support. Adding card in bing ads is extremely difficult as they have setup counter measures to stop abusers to add vccs etc. So due to this innocent accounts also suffers.
If you contact their support, they will help you to add your payment method.

Regarding adwords, you have to researched before creating a landing page. There are certain guidelines to follow else they will disappove or even ban your account which is what happened in your case.

Clickbank is not easy if you are just starting out. I would suggest you to join other networks like maxbounty, cpabuild and run campaigns using their offers. That's your best chance to earn consistently. You will also learn and gain experience in the process. But make sure to research thoroughly what is allowed in CPA marketing and what is not. You can check other people campaigns, landing pages etc to know what's working and allowed in adwords and bing.

I hope it helps.

QualityService

Thanks for the advice, definitely will research other affiliate networks!

I contacted bing so much times and every time they say its a problem with my bank, but my bank says there hasnt been any activity reguarding bing ads and they have no idea whats causing the issue.

I did very thorough research on competitors landing pages and the content was almost identical to mine.
By the way why do threshold accounts do not work anymore?

Honestly have been thinking of just quitting IM for a couple of months because I only have 100$ left to invest in it, and work an offline job for now. Working as a waiter brings only 80-100$ a month. Digged a little bit in SEO but man most people say if your starting fresh you will only make your first dollar in 3-6 months.