Should You Sell ClickBank Products If You Don’t Have a Website?

Over the past 20 years, thousands of newcomers have asked this question over and over again.

If you want to be a successful ClickBank affiliate, do you really need a website?

Before we answer, let’s look at why beginners ask this question.

The reason why

All of this comes down to one thing and one thing only: being lazy or not knowing enough.

Most affiliates who want to promote ClickBank products but don’t have their own website don’t know what’s at stake.

Either they don’t have much experience and don’t really know how to build their own website, or they’re lazy and want to make money quickly without much work.

The truth is that a beginner should NOT start out as a ClickBank affiliate if they are not willing to learn the ropes and do what needs to be done.

Being a ClickBank affiliate is NOT easy, despite what the many “make money online” courses tell you.

Signing up to become an affiliate and getting your link is easy, but that’s where the ease ends.

Everything else is in the process of going up.

But can I make money without having a website?

You can; that’s the answer.

You might make one or two sales if you make videos and post them on YouTube with a direct link to the ClickBank product.

Because it’s a numbers game, the more videos you have, the more sales you’ll make.

If you have a small budget and don’t want to pay for a domain, hosting, and autoresponder, you can still make sales by using free traffic methods like YouTube, Facebook groups, and Pinterest.

Sometimes, you might want to see how well a new product you’re trying to sell will do.

You don’t know if the sales page will work or not.

When this happens, you might decide to pay an Instagram influencer to post a shout-out about your product on their page and use your direct affiliate link.

If you make a few sales, you’ll know that the product works, and you might decide to build a site.

The common thread here is that if you don’t have a website, you’ll always be linking directly to the product’s sales page.

This brings up a few issues.

You’re leaving money on the table

If you send people straight to the sales page, you might make a few sales, but you’ll lose the chance to sell to the people who didn’t buy.

The hard truth is that most people who come to your site won’t want to buy what you’re selling.

They might not know enough to be able to make a good choice.

There are problems with trust, and most people need to see an offer more than once before they’ll pull out their credit card.

You can make a landing page when you have a website.

After that, all you have to do is point all the links in your videos, etc., to this landing page, which will offer a freemium to get people to sign up.

The gift you give should go with the product you’re trying to sell.

If you’re trying to sell a book on gardening, for example, you might give away a short report on how to make compost.

People who like gardening will be happy to join your list to get the freebie.

Trust is important

Once they are on your list, you can earn their trust by sending them helpful emails.

This is a must if you want to do well with ClickBank.

With a website, you can find people who are interested in your niche and build a following.

People in your niche will learn from, enjoy, and get help from your blog posts and other content.

The goal is to always provide value FIRST.

Then, when you’ve won them over, you can promote the ClickBank product, and they’ll trust your advice and buy from you.

No websites means no list, no value, and no trust, which means FEW or NO SALES.

Serves as a contingency plan

There are always new products on ClickBank.

Products that are popular right now could suddenly be taken off the platform for breaking a rule, or the vendor could decide to stop selling the product.

If you have a website, you can use the Pretty Links plugin to make URLs that don’t refer to a specific product.

If the product is no longer for sale, you can find a similar one and change the Pretty Links link.

Then, all your URLs will point to the new product.

When you have your own website, you’ll see how important this is.

You have more options

With a website, you can promote physical products on Amazon, or you could even sell your own goods.

When readers have more choices, your chances of making sales will go through the roof.

Put your eggs in more than one basket.

Having a website will give you more chances to make money.

In short, you can promote ClickBank products even if you don’t have a website, but you really shouldn’t.

You might need a little more time to build a site and add things like list-building tools, etc.

But once the site is done, your chances of making sales will go up by a huge amount, and your ClickBank commissions will go through the roof.

If you go above and beyond, you’ll be ahead of the competition and taken seriously in this business.