I am having many clicks on my affiliate links but no conversions at all. Could there be foul play?

[largejellyfish734]

I am using facebook to do affiliate marketing. I am getting many clicks but no commissions. I am a clickbank affiliate. I am wondering if it could be foul play from clickbank or what. Or what could be working against me? facebook demographics or malwares. I have cloaked my links with bit.ly.

[zbdblues]

I wouldn't bother with things like clickbank when it comes to selling other peoples product. Be honest with yourself, do you go on to face book to buy things? Often ads can catch our eye and we click on them, but that doesn't mean we buy. The only things i have paid for on the net are web hosting and domain names, when was the last time you bought something from the net?
You're better off paying the one time fee on clickbank and publishing your own products. That way you put one good product up and offer a high commission and experienced marketers see it, like the generous commission and flog it for you.

[Jakester]

Conversion rates can be pretty low, the rule of thumb id something like if you ad spend without a sale exceeds 1 or 2 times the commission, it's time to move on to a new product.

I trust you are seeing your hoplink displayed on the destination page (after cloak is done)

[Endurance]

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[BizSharing]

Clickbank products has very low CTR and high refund rate.

[sydnee_1996]

I, as a buyer, wouldn't consider facebook as a legitimate source when considering purchasing a product. Use facebook as a way to drive traffic to YOUR site where you have content about the product. (I.e. articles and selling points)

[TLi]

1. Make sure you put your tracking code in correctly. This may result in you seeing no conversions. (Keep in mind not all traffic will be tracked due to javascript off/on, cookies off/on, proxy servers etc.)

2. You should definitely watch your traffic closely and try to determine your non-Adwords conversion rate then compare it to your Adwords traffic conversion.

3. I too am concerned about the quality of traffic from "Content sites". As the owners(publishers) of the content sites are making their daily updates or simply checking out their web sites they *could* be motivated to click your link a few times a hour, day or whatever to increase their monthly checks from Google. Obviously, they would have to keep the volume low or they would easily be detected and removed from the program.

The problem here is that if your links are showing on several hundred content sites, then 1 click per day by each publisher would cost you much $$ and you would see absolutely no sales and the Google AI would not "see" anything wrong with this scenario.

CJ.com and most other affiliate programs are pay for performance, not pay for traffic models. my guess is that eventually Adwords content providers will move this way and Google should only pay publishers for conversions, not clicks. Google has the tools already in place to move to this model so we shall see. Meanwhile be very diligent to measure the quality of your content site traffic.

4. Testing is the only real way to know. Run your campaigns for a week with content search on (Sun-Sat) then a week with content search off(Sun-Sat)and compare the weekly results. The Google reporting tools are just great so you can easily measure the trends,hits, conversions and you should quickly see what's working.

If you don't know tech stuff, http://www.buildacouponsite.com is the best tool ever you should use. It helps you to build an affiliate site in minutes!

Good luck,
John