I signed up for Clickbank a year before I made a sale. I thought it was a simple as setting up a site and writing about the product. It takes much more than that. The three big ways to build traffic to a campaign are through SEO, PPC, and social media. Each has their benefits and drawbacks. And yes there are other ways, but they tend to fall under these umbrellas.

I have had conversion rates from less than 1% all the way up to about 20%. Yeah, the 20% conversion is great but rarely occurs. For the most part, you will be getting close to a hundred visitors to make one sale. By tweaking things, you can get a few more sales. But if you are starting out and this is the first time you tried affiliate marketing, don’t expect much more.

Why do I bring this up? Until you start making sales, just move forward, put one foot in front of the other. And don’t let your doubts gets to you. If you quit too soon, you may just been hours away from a sale. Some time it is hard to keep the work flow up when there is no return, but trust me.

And learn some SEO. This is one of the ways to free up some time. PPC requires babysitting. Social Media requires being active online. SEO can be revisited a few times a months and it sticks. You could ignore it for a month and still reap the benefits. SEO seems to be one of the subjects that confuses most newbies if the sales pages I have seen lately are any indication. They use the fact that their product doesn’t teach SEO as a selling point. Well, if you don’t use SEO you are missing out. It may be the only way you get a break every now and then.