Is
ClickBank banning email marketing?
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You've
probably heard about several Google slaps during the last
couple of years. Google Adwords could bring you tons of cheap
traffic to your site - until they started to use the "Quality
score" and other ways of filtering unwanted websites.
Bidding prices for certain keywords went crazy if you had
a low quality site.
Google's
Adsense was a huge success and people made 1,000's of dollars
showing Adsense ads on their site. A lot of these sites were
really crappy sites, so one day they invented smart pricing
making it a lot more difficult to make a decent Adsense profit.
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Now
ClickBank seems to be cracking down on Internet marketing ebooks.
When you try to get an ebook about Internet Marketing approved for
their marketplace - and promoted by 100,000 ClickBank affiliates,
your ebook will probably be declined.
Recently
I tried to get an ebook - 'Affiliate
Rescue' - approved for the Clickbank market place, but much
to my surprise ClickBank wouldn't accept it.
Why
is ClickBank not accepting some Internet marketing ebooks anymore?
Here
are some of the rules that ClickBank uses to evaluate your Internet
Marketing ebook:
Rule
#1
You can not have any statements regarding specific amounts of money
you can earn using your product/service on your sales page. ClickBank
will no longer accept any websites which include these types of
statements.
Rule
#2
You can not have a graphic of your ClickBank check on your sales
page. You can have a printout from your ClickBank account if you
make all information anonymous - and the printout must be verified
and approved by ClickBank.
Rule #3
You must remove all discussion of e-mail marketing and opt-in list
building from your website and downloads. ClickBank will no longer
accept products that discuss these topics.
Why
use Rule #1?
Probably because PayPal is one of the payment options on the ClickBank
order page, and PayPal don't like any kind of "You can make
money with this product" on a sales page. If you have been
doing Internet marketing for some time, you'll know the story about
the famous $7 Dollar Secrets script. PayPal closed a number of accounts
because the owners were making a statement on the sales page about
how much money affiliates could make by promoting there 100% commission
product.
Why
use rule #2?
Well, according to ClickBank they think some people are using these
graphics for check fraud.
Why
use rule #3?
I have no idea why ClickBank is banning any discussion about email
marketing and list building - but it will have a huge impact on
the kind of products, you can find on ClickBank!
Imagine
selling an ebook about Internet marketing and you're not allowed
to mention "list building" or "email marketing"
on your sales page. You're not even allowed to discuss these topics
in your ebook - even if it's just a small chapter - let's say 5
pages out of 100 pages.
How
will this affect you?
If you're an author you'll have to find some place else to market
your ebooks about Internet Marketing, if you want to include information
about email marketing and list building. If you're making money
as an affiliate and want to target the huge "Make money on
the Internet" market, ClickBank will no longer be the best
place to find this type of ebooks. You will have to go to PayDotCom.com,
CommissionJunction or join the authors private affiliate network.
Here's
the ebook, that ClickBank rejected: Affiliate
Rescue - Make Money on a Budget
About
the Author:
Jan Sepstrup - Internet Entrepeneur. Are you having trouble getting
any success in affiliate
marketing? Visit Affiliate
Rescue at www.affiliaterescue.net
and learn all the dirty tricks you'll need for success!
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