Today ClickBank introduced a new terms of service which states that they are going to charge higher fees if you’re refund rate is above 15% for a period of 60 days. This is to encourage people to make better products and in turn lower refund rates.

But as most of you will already know, when you sell or promote products in the make money online niche then you will struggle to get refund rates that low especially if you use ClickBank.

You see, as easy to use as ClickBank is to have your own affiliate program for your products, it’s also FAR too easy to claim a refund.

And most freebie seekers know this already.

All you need to do is send one email request or fill in a form and say that the product wasn’t as you expected and BANG…there you go, enjoy your free product.

As a product seller it is increasingly frustrating when you see the same names doing this over and over again.

Maybe if they want to reduce refund rates they should have a tighter procedure and ask some questions when the same people are refunding all the time?

That is why I would say I’ll probably never promote a make money online product through ClickBank again.

But I will say that it’s different in other ClickBank niches. Most buyers in the other niches don’t tend to buy lots of products in the same niche from ClickBank, so they don’t realise just how easy it is to get a refund.

Anyway, that’s just my quick rant of the day!

I’ll now go and continue to get my WSO ready for launch later today….

Tony

Using affiliate marketing is a great way to monetize your blog. You don’t need to create a product, deal with customer support or any of that.

Just promote your affiliate links and make a percentage of every sale you refer.

Simple!

However – If you do what all the so called ‘gurus‘ tell you to do, you will have no doubt tried to promote affiliate products from ClickBank.

While they do pay quite well, they have one fundamental thing wrong with them:

They have far too much competition.

That’s because EVERYONE who is trying to make affiliate commissions uses them. That makes your job even harder.

Fortunately there’s a solution.

Here’s a secret database of more than 160 HIGH paying recurring affiliate programs that you can use today:

http://www.tonynewton.co.uk/watch/160affprograms/

Each one comes with:

1) Name of Product
2) Description
3) Product URL
4) Commission Payout
5) Affiliate signup URL

And there’s a niche that you are sure to be interested in:

Arts & Entertainment
Betting & Gambling
Dating & Relationships
Education & Languages
Exercise & Fitness
Finance & Loans
Forex & Investing
Green Products
Health
Home & Garden
Hypnosis
Internet Marketing
Parenting & Family
Self Improvement
Software & Services
Sports
Weight Loss

This means you can beat the competition in its tracks and start earning commissions fast!

What makes them even better is they are all recurring products which means you get paid over and over again, not just once like most affiliate programs.

Hope you like them!

Tony

A question that I see asked so many times is “What is the best way to monetize my blog?”

The answer of course is that there are literally dozens of ways to monetize a blog. But finding the best way will take some testing.

Monetizing a blog is not just about placing as many adverts on your theme as you can. It’s also not about stuffing affiliate links in all your blog posts.

So What Is It About?

What it is about is finding what appeals most to your readers. For instance, if your blog doesn’t get many return visitors, then placing Google Adsense on it probably won’t affect your blog as people don’t tend to come back anyway. So at least you earn money when they leave if they click on your ads.

But if you have a blog that does have return visitors and people like to read your content, then you really don’t want to lose them by showing them an advert and making them go to another site. So Adsense wouldn’t be a good fit.

What would be better in this instance is having a private members area or premium newsletter and charging a small monthly fee to your readers. They will pay it because they already like reading your posts and by having secret content that isn’t available anywhere else, makes it even more appealing.

Focus On One Method At A Time

Monetizing a blog can be far more effective if you only focus on one method. Whether it be paid advertising, textual advertising, affiliate marketing or a paid membership site. But you won’t know until you start testing things out for yourself.

That is why it is important to carefully monitor your stats. Look at whether your traffic levels are increasing or decreasing. Look at how long people are staying on your blog for. Look at whether they are new visitors or return visitors. You can get all this information by just installing Google Analytics on your blog for free.

Test out one monetization method and see what the results are in terms of your earnings and impact to your blog. If the stats remain similar and you make money, then that would be considered a positive monetization method. Then try another one and rinse and repeat.

I very rarely use more than 3-4 monetization methods on my blogs because all the extra work involved doesn’t usually pay off.

Enjoy Your Blogging!

Tony