This fucking advice, wtf.
No, don't go use another PPC company. PPC is something you try after you learn to convert free traffic and have thousands to blow / test with.
The biggest problems I see are:
1) Noobs target too broad. Clickbank has tutorials right on their site. They've polled on this and most people don't target ... targeted keywords.
2) Copy. You want high conversions then target small, targeted niches and expose them to copy like they've never seen in their life.
3) Learn to PRESELL. You said you're driving traffic to the landing page which *sounds like* the vendor sales page. If you're doing that you're doing it wrong.
The job of an affiliate is to exploit targeted niches (through research / testing) & PRESELL traffic. You never drive traffic straight to the landing page UNLESS that traffic was properly presold first. SEO and YT are exceptions to this rule as you would presell right on your site or videos. And you don't sell like the vendors do. Don't copy their style. You have to slowly "step up" the sale. People are coming to your pages already skeptical. You need to disarm all that fast, make up some great, dramatic, value building story.... that's EASY for them to understand... then send them to the salespage.
I was pretty decent at writing and voiceovers before I got into clickbank. But I STILL couldn't get sales. My issue was as good as I can write, you really need to think of original shit to tell people... then execute upon those scripts perfectly (I prefer video). I've used the same exact scripts pitched slightly different over a mic for the same exact keywords. And some videos convert while others don't. The reason certain videos convert is I usually get pissed off. Then in my mind I say "I don't give a fuck if these people buy something I just want to CONVINCE THEM that I'm right". With that mindframe I come off like I don't care what people do. But I'm still very deliberately leading people towards a decision.
Another problem I had was trying to appeal to too many different types of people within a niche. Basically where you try to be TOO OBJECTIVE and don't take a strong stance on anything. That type of shit destroys conversions. A good example of this is my best converting videos on youtube usually have a 50/50 like to dislike ratio. That means that half of people are getting mad and passionately disliking my videos. Because I take a firm stance and alienate certain mindsets or solutions I think are dumb.
By doing that I get fewer likes but the people who DO like the videos are more passionate and more likely to buy.
The problem these days is YT is a bitch to rank on. That's how so many people were making money with CB back in 2012-2014. Now, YT bans videos if you take the emotional route rather than the educational route. They don't like those emotional, infomerical styled videos anymore. And since the emotional route drives higher conversions, more videos get banned.... YT is very hard these days unless you're really educating people (lots of work for you) then you gotta rank which is still a bitch.
Then you have blog comments. There's huge threads on this.
There's the FB group method. I think it's a shitty method personally. Requires lots of precision and not really worth it unless you scale up with bots.
Still, I'd spend most your time doing keyword research. Build a great website that presells people very convincingly. Target untapped keywords. Then use YT, blog comments, FB, forums, everything you can to create a funnel & drive traffic to your site. And also rank the site. In the end SEO is the most passive way to earn a lot of money. It gives you tons of control. But it takes more work than most noobs are willing to learn nevermind apply.
-BB
