How I Am Getting Clickbank Sites Link Back To Me And Place My Video In Their Affiliate Tools Section
I am really glad I started exchanging links with other sites awhile back. Right now I am doing no paid advertising and I am still getting over 200 subscribers per day to my newsletters confirmed opt in all from other sites linking to me. I was relying about 30-40% on ppc advertising for my traffic. When Google started slapping all my campaigns I am really happy I did not rely 100% on this method. Now I am concentrating on techniques that will give me long term quality free traffic. I own The Free Ad Forum. It has over 120,000 members and is a pretty busy site. Mainly the crowd is marketers. I decided to contact the webmasters for Clickbank sites asking them to put a recommendation for my forum in their affiliate tools area as well as a video that I made explaining how to use your signature file to get more traffic. In return I offered to promote them on my forum in my new JV section.
This is a win win for the Clickbank site owner. He gets a new tool to help HIS affiliates promote HIS product and he gets me promoting him on my forum. Here is the letter I am sending them:
====Beginning of letter=======
Subject: I own thefreeadforum.com 120k members I want to promote your Clickbank site
Hi,
This is Matthew Meyer, I own www.thefreeadforum.com
The forum has over 120k members and is
at about Alexa 18,000.
I found you on Clickbank Marketplace.
I want to join your Clickbank affiliate program
and promote your site to all my members.
Here is what I will do for you:
1. I will make a full post promoting your
product in my new special JV forum recommending
your product.
http://www.thefreeadforum.com/vbull/jv-forum/
2. I will include an email in my autoresponder
series directing people to the post which promotes you.
I have over 200k in my lists as I own many
sites and about 300 per day are signing
up confirmed opt in daily right now.
3. I will even make a short video about the
post and upload it to 20 top video hosting sites.
Bookmark the post in 20 top social bookmarking sites.
Link to the post in 10 micro blogs and 10 feeder blogs.
The post, the video and the email will be
permanenet so this should give you direct
traffic, as well as long term SEO benefits.
The site is busy and gets indexed very fast.
I am always sending email blasts and driving
more traffic to the site.
Here is what I ask of you. Simply put up
a recommendation in your affiliate tools area
(where you have your banners, links and letters
to help your affiliates promote your site)
recommending that they use www.thefreeadforum.com
to promote YOUR program.
I have written a nice recommendation for you which
is already in use on top Clickbank sites.
See: http://www.thefreeadforum.com/jvblurb.html
You can just view source and copy the code into your page.
Included is even a Youtube video explaining to
your affiliates how to use their affiliate link
in their signature file when posting to forums
to get free traffic.(For You!)
This is win win for you and costs you nothing.
You get:
1. Permanent post on my Alexa 18k 120k member forum recommending
your program.
2. Permanent email in my autoresponder list which
grows by 300 per day recommending you.
3. Video in uploaded to 20 video hosting sites,blogs
and social bookmarking sites promoting you.
4. New free traffic service and video tutorial helping
your affiliates get you even more business and making
you look even more professional.
The top Clickbank affiliates are attracted to sites
with lots of good affiliate tools. I know I am one.
Let me know when my recommendation is up on your site,
forward me any letters and promo material you might
have and I will get to work on your behalf.
P.S. If I see that your program is hot and converts
I can really push it to my whole list of over 200k
too.
Thanks!
Matthew Meyer
The Free Ad Forum
http://www.thefreeadforum.com
1314 E. Las Olas Blvd.
Fort Lauderdale Fl. 33301
(You are not on any type of list
I just contacted you from your contact
from on your Clickbank site.)
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Notice I start off telling them what I am going to do for THEM. So many people try to get joint ventures by only offering commissions. Listen, there are thousands of products on Clickbank and other affiliate networks that I can promote for commission only. I do not care about the commissions. I care if you are going to give me some traffic back. Just a hint, if you are looking for joint venture partners offer them more than just commisisons. Offer them some traffic back to their site. What if you do not have a list? No problem. Offer to do social media marketing for their product, write reviews and post it on appropriate forums, do a video and submit it to the major social media and video sites. So even if you have no list you have something to offer, your elbow grease!
I am using Animoto to create cool short promo videos. This is a simple to use online video creator. They have free and paid versions. I am also using Contentbuzz.net to submit the videos to the major hosting and social media sites. Both programs are quick, easy to use and efficient.
This technique is really working well. Check out the joint venture area of the forum here. You can see my partners are starting to get traffic. I am getting a very positive response to my proposition. Why not? It is a good deal for them. I hope this gives you some good ideas for networking with other sites. When you think of it all Google Content network is is a bunch of ads on other peoples sites. How much do you think they would charge me to have a huge blurb like this one on thier network sites?
Also, this is a long term JV for both my partners and me. My JV forum is getting more and more traffic and link juice everyday. The videos will get more views, more bookmarks, more tweets, more comments etc. The posts could give traffic for years to come to my partner sites and the traffic is free and targeted. I hope this give you some ideas on how to network with other sites. As always your comments are welcome.
