Clickbank - Affiliate RSS feed widget thingy
You will notice to the lower right (in the far column), a panel containing a list of products pitched at home based business operators. These are links to products currently listed for sale on Clickbank - and are all automagically generated from an RSS feed!
To create your own Clickbank product feed, first set up an affiliate account with Clickbank. Clickbank is probably the Internet’s largest reseller and distribution network for digital products such as software, e-books and the like. Generous payouts are offered for affiliates referring traffic to their publishers’ products.
Next, go visit the Clickbank RSSFeed Generator. This service allows one use per day, but their paid service, RSSGround allows for more regular use. Follow the prompts, select your categories, keyword phrases and enter your Clickbank Affiliate ID and hit Submit. (Note: for the free daily service, only one phrase may be entered). An RSS feed URL is generated (equipped with your Clickbank Affiliate ID and keyword search phrases) ready for you to use wherever you see fit. For now, copy this URL to your clipboard.
Now, where are you gonna put this thing? On your blog of course! Most of the free blogging services offer some form of widget functionality and included usually is something which can display the contents of an RSS feed (Blogger and Wordpress certainly do). It’s either something that’s already installed or readily available, perhaps as a plug-in.
Locate the widget/plugin and place it in your site layout where you’d like it to appear. Paste the URL in and fill out the form - here is what the WordPress.org one looks like for mine..
Voila! From this point on your visitors now have a selection of related affiliate products offered straight from your blog.
It is also possible to have a Clickbank feed generated offering products based on the content of your blog post…I’ll track that one down too and post something about it later. In the meantime, try this one out and go make some money…oh, and can I interest you in any home based business related products?? ;-)
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Comments
John,
Great tip. I find that affliate marketing is an easy way for people to make residual income from their webpage and people don’t really realise the power of it!
Sin Boutkaska
The Clickbank widget is a great idea…I also have the paydot widget on my blog also. Thanks for your post…Marc
John
Great information, signed up and then also found and added Amazon RSS feed. Awesome work thanks.
Leigh K
This is some great information you have here! Thanks for sharing it! :)