It seems lately I've landed on a number of sites selling their products through Clickbank, but below the link to purchase the product at Clickbank is a PayPal button.
If you are an affiliate for a site/product that does this, then you're going to lose sales commission if the traffic you send to the site decides to use PayPal to pay for the product.
I had a couple of people write to me recently and thank me for referring a certain affiliate site to them that offered a digital product that would solve their problem. Just for the fun of it, I logged onto Clickbank and discovered I had not made a sale after these people had thanked me.
Well... now you know why...
So I wrote to the owner of the program and said, "Look, this isn't working for me. I like your product and don't mind recommending it to folks, but it would be nice to make the odd commission sale."
The owner of the program wrote back to me and said they do a lot of PPC advertising and find the conversion ratio at about 2.5% with 30% of their purchasers opting to use PayPal. Then he asked me if I had any suggestions...
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