Clickbank Product #1: First Sale, Copy & Rankings

Well, it’s finally happened - my first of two new products I had in development was approved by Clickbank and received its first official sale yesterday after 40 unique visitors since the product went live last week.

Ahh.. It’s always nice to get that confirmation as it’s easier to relax knowing people actually want your product. ;o)

In regards to sales copy, I decided to contract a copywriter to revise the copy. Regardless of the current conversion (which I couldn’t possibly know at this stage), I’ve seen this guys work and I know for a fact it will be improved upon a lot by his work.

The website has started moving up in the rankings in Google and Yahoo and it’s around 50th place in both engines for the main keyword I’m targeting. Now I just have to work on some link building and promotion and I’m hopeful within 6 months I should be seeing some solid rankings for the main keywords, but it is natural search we’re talking about, and anything could happen.

In related news: Product number 2 should be written within 6 weeks. I think I will use the same copywriter to write the sales copy from scratch given I REALLY don’t want to write more long sales copy myself. It’s a terrible task unless it’s your passion!

Submitted My First of 2 Clickbank Products for Approval

Diam, things move slow when it comes to product creation.

Out-sourcing has it’s advantages, but many drawbacks - let me explain.

The good news is, the first of 2 new products for Clickbank I was making is finished, the sales copy written and submitted to Clickbank for product approval.

The bad news is, my usual copywriter is going through some personal stuff right now and was unable to write my copy. The kind soul that he is, sent me the entire $800 back for the 2 products he was going to write copy for and apologized citing his person reasons for not being able to write the copy.

This means I had to write the sales copy for the first product, and I’ll probably write it for product number 2 once that’s complete.

I’m not a great copy writer, not by a long shot, but I do understand the basic principles. I don’t expect GREAT conversions from my letter.. but it will do for the time being. Money’s tight and I could really use the money the copywriter sent back right now.

That’s all really - hopefully Clickbank will of approved it within 3-5 business days and I can get it listed on the Clickbank Marketplace so affiliate can begin to build a few links for me, causing my website to rise up the natural search rankings. It’s currently on Page 7 of Google and in the top 120 positions in Yahoo from just a few links.

Given the domain is fairly old (which I purchased) and has the full keyword in the domain, it shouldn’t be long before the site’s up there and receiving some traffic.

Then I’ll be able to gauge the conversion rate and report back some results.

I’m shattered, and in celebration of Paris Hilton getting sent to jail - I’m off to watch The Simple Life that’s just starting on e4 to see how many times I can laugh.

God I’m fucking sad. ..and I’m a cunt.