Affiliate marketing is a popular way to earn income online by promoting products and services. One of the largest affiliate networks is Clickbank, with thousands of digital products you can promote. This article will walk you through the steps to get started with Clickbank affiliate marketing.

To begin, you’ll need to sign up for a Clickbank account. This is free and only takes a few minutes. You’ll enter some basic information like your name, address, and payment details so you can receive commissions. Once your account is set up, you can start searching Clickbank for products to promote.

There are thousands of products in many categories like health, business, and home and garden. A good way to find products to promote is to check the “top offers” section. These are products that other affiliates have had success promoting recently. While the market may be more competitive for these top offers, there’s also a good chance of you earning commissions if you can drive traffic.

For this example, we’ll look at promoting a weight loss supplement called “Alpalene”. The next step is to get your affiliate link for the product, known as your “hoplink”. You generate this in Clickbank by clicking the “promote” button next to the product listing. Enter your Clickbank username, which you created when you signed up. This creates a link with your affiliate ID in it.

Now you have your hoplink to promote the product, but you need a way to drive traffic to that link. One of the best strategies for affiliate marketing beginners is to run YouTube ads promoting the product. This allows you to advertise to a huge pool of interested viewers.

To create your YouTube ad, you’ll need some additional tools. First, use a service like Video Ad Force to research other YouTube ads promoting the same product. Look for ads with lots of views, likes and responses. The scripts and creative used in those ads are proven to resonate with viewers. You can then use a rewording tool like ChatGPT to create a new script that is different but delivers the same message.

Next, use a video creation tool like InVideo to produce your ad. InVideo has stock footage, images, and AI voices you can use to put together a professional video in minutes. Just upload the script, choose visuals to match, add voiceover and music, and your ad is ready. Download the finished video and upload it to your own YouTube channel as an unlisted video.

Now you have your YouTube video ad and can start running ads through Google Ads, formerly known as Google Adwords. Create an account and set up your first campaign by selecting “Video” as the campaign type. Choose a budget of at least $30-50 per day to start, and enter your video ad details including the headline, thumbnail image, script, and display URL which should be your squeeze page.

A squeeze page is a conversion-focused landing page where visitors can enter their email to learn more about the product. Using a tool like Aweber, you can build a squeeze page and have the email signups redirected to your affiliate link. This helps to maximize your conversions by capturing visitor emails before sending them to the product site.

Once your Google Ads campaign is approved and live, your ad will start showing on YouTube. As visitors see your ad, click through to your squeeze page, and purchase the product, you’ll start earning commissions from Clickbank! Google Ads does require an advertising budget, but as long as your ads are profitable, meaning the commissions you earn exceed the cost of the ads, you’ll be making money through Clickbank affiliate marketing.

To scale up, you can continue optimizing your ads to improve the conversion rate, try promoting other products in the same niche, increase your budget to reach more viewers, and build more squeeze pages and YouTube ads. With consistency and persistence, you can make $100 per day or more through affiliate marketing on Clickbank. The key is testing products and ads to find those that resonate best with your audience and thus generate the most sales.

In summary, the main steps to getting started with Clickbank affiliate marketing are:

  1. Sign up for a Clickbank account
  2. Find a product to promote in the Clickbank marketplace
  3. Get your affiliate link (hoplink) for the product
  4. Research YouTube ads for the same product using Video Ad Force
  5. Get a reworded script for your ad using ChatGPT
  6. Create your video ad using InVideo
  7. Upload your ad to your YouTube channel as an unlisted video
  8. Set up a Google Ads campaign to run your YouTube video ad
  9. Build a squeeze page to capture emails before sending visitors to your hoplink
  10. Optimize your ads and scale up as you start earning commissions!

With time and consistency, you can build a thriving affiliate marketing business on Clickbank. Let me know if you have any other questions!