Journey: from first time building a website to $100/day

Just started my journey Today after reading many posts.
Today I spent $48.18 total and I:
1 Signed up for commission junction CPA (free/ did not get phone call) and was accepted immediately. I’m waiting to hear about advertiser specific approval.
2 Signed up for a clickbank account (Free)
3 Signed up for clickbank product to promote and received Hoplink
4 Went to tinyurl website to shorten/change link. (Free)
5 I created a HostGator web hosting account (baby plan) $41.18 then billed monthly around $11.
6 Created a HostGator Free .com websiteDomain
7 Went on Fiverr and purchased “ create landing page to use for affiliate marketing.”
(Website will be complete in a day or so) $7


When researching (on the forums) how to do the above steps I thought about the following: -free vs paid hosting - I read that with Wordpress, it is better to have paid hosting.
- I read about different options for cloaking/changing the clickbank Hoplink. I decided in tinyurl for now because it was simple, didn’t involve code writing etc. However, I’ll research plugins such as pretty link which I read good things about.
- I used fiverr because I’ve had good experiences with fiverr in the past. I’ve never created a website before so it was easier for me to pay someone to create a landing page for the first time. I honestly do not know how to create a landing page at this moment. I’m able to create a blog post on blogger and that is it.

Next steps:
Once website is complete I’d like to create or buy a twitter page to promote free offers. “Give it away” “give it away for free” search in clickbank for more offers. I’d like to learn how to use Wordpress/plugins. I believe HostGator said I have unlimited domains. Does that mean sub domains are free? Hosting is free? I have to figure that out.

Credit given to “W White” for the post that provided helpful clickbank tips
“[GOLD METHOD] How I made $700+ in 12 hours with ClickBank + Reddit and how you can do it too! By W White”

Tanzanite1 said:

3 Signed up for Clickbank product to promote and received Hoplink
4 Went to tinyurl website to shorten/change link. (Free)

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These two I don't recommend to do at least for Clickbank Hoplink
Good luck

This will be an interesting journey to follow especially with clickbank. I wish you luck!

anonexpat said:

This will be an interesting journey to follow especially with clickbank. I wish you luck!

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Thanks! Will keep posting updates.

the gent said:

These two I don't recommend to do at least for Clickbank Hoplink
Good luck

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Thanks for the feedback. Since I am in the process of creating a landing page, I can use the landing page link instead of tinyurl.

Tanzanite1 said:

Thanks for the feedback. Since I am in the process of creating a landing page, I can use the landing page link instead of tinyurl.

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No worries, as Clickbank can't track properly the Hoplink in a shorten link the they can't guarantee that they will be tracked correctly as "they said" https://support.clickbank.com/hc/en-us/articles/220365867-Using-HopLinks#Troubleshooting, but if you see it is working well then it's ok, your call after all

Good luck

All the best buddy.

Good luck with your journey!

Good luck on your journey. Will be following

All the best..!!

What will be your traffic source ?

I’m trying to narrow my ideas down. It is a “giveaway product” so I’m thinking of starting a “freebie/deals” twitter and Facebook page. (Buying accounts from fiverr). Posting relevant articles/content about saving money(with affiliate links) then posting in various groups. I was originally planning to use Reddit but it sounds like they are very strict.

Good luck with your journey.

Try think outside the box a little more, you are going on a straight path targetting people looking for freebies.

So I am definitely considering Meathead1234’s method post “
Easy $100 A Day - Perfect For Noobs“

Another thing that I’m trying to figure out is if there is a way for someone to look at some of my first items that I create to let me know if I’m on the right path. Example- how does my landing page look? Is there a forum area on that on this website? Still waiting for my landing page to be finished on fiverr.

Landing page on fiverr is done. Just waiting for them to fix a typo. The hostgator hosting costs more than anticipated. In the browser of my landing page, there was the phrase “not secure” listed before my address which makes it look more spammy. I spent more money to purchase a SSL certificate for about $39. What I should have done was created a domain then subdomains. I will keep that in mind. I wonder if I could use tinyurl or some sort of domain/redirect instead of Wordpress and hosting. Another thing that I learned is to choose someone with more experience on fiverr. While he was accommodating with fixing things, he made a few errors/ typos and we had to go back and forth to fix it.

Wishing you a lot of luck on this journey. You can do it!

Tanzanite1 said:

Landing page on fiverr is done. Just waiting for them to fix a typo. The hostgator hosting costs more than anticipated. In the browser of my landing page, there was the phrase “not secure” listed before my address which makes it look more spammy. I spent more money to purchase a SSL certificate for about $39. What I should have done was created a domain then subdomains. I will keep that in mind. I wonder if I could use tinyurl or some sort of domain/redirect instead of Wordpress and hosting. Another thing that I learned is to choose someone with more experience on fiverr. While he was accommodating with fixing things, he made a few errors/ typos and we had to go back and forth to fix it.

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For future reference, Let’s Encrypt offers free SSL certificates.

Tabun said:

For future reference, Let’s Encrypt offers free SSL certificates.

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Thanks so much. That’s great to know!

OP Update: I went to my landing page website and saw that the page was down. Apparently I didn’t verify my email. I just did that and it will take up to 48 hours for the website to be up and running again.

I checked clickbank. At first it showed no sales but then I looked and saw that in early February there was 1 sale!!! Yay : )

I’m not sure how long my site was down. I was focused on my 9-5 job and hadn’t thought about CB This has given me some hope. I used fiverr to help promote the website (submitting to search engines etc. )

I’d like to do more on my own because paying others will get expensive.

Tanzanite1 said:

When researching (on the forums) how to do the above steps I thought about the following: -free vs paid hosting - I read that with Wordpress, it is better to have paid hosting.
- I read about different options for cloaking/changing the clickbank Hoplink. I decided in tinyurl for now because it was simple, didn’t involve code writing etc. However, I’ll research plugins such as pretty link which I read good things about.

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-Free hosting is complete crap for a money site. You went with an ok provider, some people dislike hostgator, but I think it's pretty decent for a simple blog like yours and you got a free domain for a year.
-Do get a plugin, organizing your links is a must for the long term.