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Somebody left a question on this blog the other day asking what is the best article spinner. This is a question I have often been asked over the years because people naturally want to spin the PLR articles that I produce.

I always had trouble replying because frankly, I thought most of the article spinning software on the market was useless. But I have now found one that passes the strict Rosie-Cottis-No-Nonsense-Articles test!

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To explain why this software is different, first let’s look at the output of a typical article spinner. This is a random sentence from an actual article found on a financial trading blog:

“Once you possess a reliable arranged of inventory trading principles it’s important to maintain them in mind.”

Uuh … what? Your eyes probably glazed over there, so try reading it again.

See how you have to really think about that to make any sense of it? Would you keep on reading through a whole article of that kind of stuff and then click on the link at the end? No? Nor will your website visitors.

I don’t know which spinner the writer used but you can certainly tell that he used one. His original sentence probably said something like this:

“Once you have a reliable set of stock trading rules it’s important to keep them in mind.”

Then the spinning software messed it up. Because of course “stock” and “inventory”, like “set” and “arranged”, are synonymous in some situations, but swapping them in this context makes no sense at all.

This doesn’t mean that spinning is a bad thing. If we were spinning an article in software that would actually let us choose the substitutes for the different words, we could produce plenty of acceptable versions, e.g.:

“When you have a successful set of stock trading rules it’s vital to bear them in mind.”

If it would also let us spin whole phrases, we could change “to keep them in mind” to “not to forget them” and a ton of other things.

So that is what I always wanted in a spinner. I wanted software that would:

1. offer synonyms to save me time, but

2. let me delete the ones that didn’t make sense in the context of my article, and

3. let me add synonyms that I thought of myself (phrases as well as words) AND

4. let me save my own synonyms in a custom dictionary so I could quickly select them again for my next article in the same niche.

And that is exactly what Magic Article Rewriter does. In my view it is the best article spinner if what you want is hundreds of unique articles that actually make sense. You can find it here:

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Note you have two options on that page: Rewriter alone, or Rewriter plus Submitter. I have the submitter but I don’t particularly recommend that. I use the Rewriter only, then I submit my spin-ready master to Unique Article Wizard for distribution. (You can copy your spin-ready master including token codes into all three boxes in UAW, and it will do the spinning.)

Anyway, that’s my take on the best article spinner situation.

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4. Testimonials

Testimonials are almost always a good thing. Even better if there are photos, audio or video on the testimonials.

If customers mention their results from using the product it can be very convincing and may do great things for your conversions, but it may be in breach of FTC regulations so proceed at your own risk. You may consider that the FTC are more likely to go after the product vendor than a mere affiliate, but who knows. I’m talking here about testimonials that say “With this ebook I reversed my diabetes in X weeks” etc. Personally, that wouldn’t stop me promoting the product but I don’t live in the USA. And I still wouldn’t quote those testimonials on my own website, especially for health issues.

Sometimes testimonials don’t add anything and might even put off some buyers. On one of the diabetes product sales pages, a customer said how much he had liked the author’s ebook on acid reflux. As soon as I saw that I’m thinking, “Hold on, isn’t this guy supposed to be a diabetes expert? Looks like he’s just a hack writer after all … I could probably write the thing myself”

5. Commission

I almost didn’t bother to mention this because it’s so obvious, but check the commission percentage and what the price is, so you know roughly what you will get per sale. I’d look for at least $20 per sale.

6. How Many Products Can You Promote?

If all the products are very similar I wouldn’t promote more than one at a time. I would have one primary product that was promoted on my website and in the first autoresponder messages. Then I might switch to promoting a second product in the second half of an autoresponder series. That’s just to catch people who want to buy, but didn’t like the look of the first one for some reason of their own.

In addition you can promote any product that is very different from your primary product at any time (e.g. a diabetes recipe book as well as a method for reversing diabetes). You can promote this alongside your primary product because many people might want both.

If there are a lot of good products in different aspects of the niche (e.g. in the internet marketing niche) you could follow the sales funnel principle. You promote the cheapest one of your chosen products first and then gradually work up to the most expensive.

Don’t do this with products that are very similar, though. You don’t want your buyers to feel they have bought 6 versions of the same thing. Your ideal buyer should be happy when s/he has bought ALL of the products in your funnel because they complement each other perfectly.

7. Reviews

Assuming you now have a shortlist of 2-3 candidates for your primary product, you can ask the vendors for review copies. If you have a relevant website, you could send them a link to show them you are a genuine affiliate. That’s if you are happy to reveal your site.

If you get the ebooks, go through them imagining that you are a target customer. Even without knowing anything about the subject or putting the method to the test you will probably have a good idea of whether your buyers will feel they received good value. Here are some points to consider:

Is it well written?
How clear are the instructions?
How easy would it be to follow the method?
Does it require that you buy other things that are expensive?
Does it convey enthusiasm to keep people motivated?
Does it build trust so you believe it will actually work?

Note that we are not asking here whether the method actually does work – you’re not going to test it. It’s just whether the ebook builds enough trust that you would be willing to give it a try.

Put yourself in the place of the buyer who is looking for a solution. E.g. for a diabetes ‘cure’, would you want to try the method yourself if you were diagnosed with diabetes tomorrow?

If the answer is yes, the customer will probably feel they got good value even if the method turns out not to work for them. But if the answer is no, chances are they will never even try it and will either think they were scammed or will request a refund right away.

It is very important to be sure that anything you promote will offer value to the customer, especially if you have built a list. A bad product can decimate a list of subscribers that you would otherwise have been able to make more money from later.

Many of your subscribers in non-IM niches will assume that you are either the creator of the product you are promoting, or his/her employee. If you promoted it, and they end up feeling scammed, they will think you scammed them.

So don’t skip this step if you are promoting to a list. Either read the product or find some feedback from real customers on forums – not other affiliates!

Note: If you’re looking for reviews of Clickbank weight loss products with PLR, you’ll find some excellent ones here:

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That’s it for my tips to finding the best Clickbank product to promote. Please feel free to add your own tips below in the comments section!

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So this is what I look for in a sales page:

1. Does it look professional?

It’s true that some ugly sites convert well, but unless you have evidence of this I think a professional looking site inspires more trust. You don’t want the graphics to be too distracting, but you want it to be laid out so that it is attractive, clear and easy to read.

2. Does it keep your attention as you read?

When I was looking at the diabetes product sales pages to answer Ann’s question, I thought that one of them definitely had too much scientific information. I was losing interest, even when I put myself in the position of a diabetes sufferer. I didn’t need to know what was happening in my pancreas, I just wanted a cure!

The moment you realize that your attention has wandered, look at the sales page and try to see what caused it. Sometimes it’s something personal to you (e.g. a name makes you think of a friend) but many times it’s something that will cause your visitors to lose interest and click on that nasty little X at the top of their screen.

Personally, I never buy from sales pages that have nothing but a video on them. I don’t have patience or time to sit through it. I’m not interested in the vendor’s story. I want to skim through a sales page in a few seconds to see if the product interests me before I watch anything. I’d assume my visitors would feel the same so I would avoid promoting video-only sales pages.

It would be different if you do most of your own promotion through video, e.g. if you have a video blog. Anybody who clicks through from your video blog must like video, so they would be likely to respond well to a video sales page. You have to think about YOUR visitors and how you have brought them to this point.

Of course, look for a clear call to action on the sales page. The ‘Add to cart’ or other buy button should be easy to find even if you are scrolling quickly.

And it’s just a little thing, but I give extra points to sales pages that have today’s date at the top. I know this is just a piece of javascript, I even know the code, but when I’m thinking of buying a product I still get the feeling that this must be a bang up to date and relevant website because it shows today’s date…!

3. No popups or leaks

Leaks are when the page diverts your visitor so they take some other action instead of buying this product right now.

If your visitor goes off the sales page through a banner ad or some other site that the vendor owns, you almost certainly won’t get credit. Clickbank doesn’t work that way. The exceptions are:

(a) upsells (after the visitor buys the first product) and downsells (e.g. if a discount is offered when the visitor tries to click on the X). You do get credit for those.

(b) if the home page lists a lot of different products on the same domain they are probably all in the same Clickbank vendor account and one hoplink will get you credit for them all, but check them.

In case you don’t know, here’s how to check the Clickbank cookie: click on your hoplink to land on the vendor’s website. Then click through from the buy button on the sales page to the Clickbank payment page that asks for your credit card details. At the bottom it should say [affiliate=xxx]. If your Clickbank ID is shown in place of xxx, you will get the credit.

What if the page pops up an opt-in form?

In theory that should be OK but it’s a little risky. Your visitor has been cookied with your ID and that should survive provided the vendor’s emails send people direct to the product home page with a naked link. But if the emails contain the vendor’s own Clickbank hoplink, it will overwrite yours. Then the vendor is stealing your visitors and you won’t get credit.

You will need to sign up to the list yourself to check this out. First cookie yourself with your own affiliate link by clicking through it, then click on the links in the emails the vendor sends you and check that your affiliate ID still shows on Clickbank’s payment page.

Of course there is a chance that the visitor will delete their cookies after their first visit to the sales page. Then you lose them. That’s one of the risks of affiliate marketing and it can happen with almost any merchant. It’s just too bad.

Because of this possibility, some affiliates prefer not to send people to any sales page containing an opt-in form, even if the vendor is honest. Others consider that the opt-in will increase conversions (that’s why the vendor has it there) so the affiliate will still be better off: even if a few visitors delete their cookies, more of the others will buy. The truth is, your results will depend on the effectiveness of the vendor’s follow-up emails. You already signed up to the list so you can judge them for yourself.

The other 4 tips will follow tomorrow. Watch this space

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Question from Ann: “I bought your Diabetes PLR articles and they’re great, but I’m having trouble deciding on the best Clickbank product to promote. There are many ebooks in Clickbank, all offering a different ‘cure’ for diabetes. Without being an expert, how do I choose? Do I rely on gravity? Should I offer a choice by promoting several products, or will that just confuse my visitors, who will be thinking that the different methods can’t all be right?”

That’s an edited version of a question that I received last week. When I replied, Ann said that she found the points I raised very useful, so here’s an expanded version of them.

First, to find all the Clickbank products for a particular niche, I use cbengine.com. I find it returns more relevant results than searching on Clickbank’s own search tool. Just type the niche name in the ‘Keyword’ box in the right sidebar.

Then gravity. I don’t pay much attention to that. I like to see that some sales are going through, but very high gravity just means a lot of other affiliates are promoting. That is not necessarily important.

It’s more a question of whether the sales page looks likely to convert for the traffic you send it. Clickbank will not tell you the conversion rates so you have to either run your own tests by sending traffic to different products, or base your decision on your own criteria.

So my main questions are (1) will the product convert and (2) will buyers feel they got good value?

If you are promoting to a subscriber list, I think question 2 is even more important than question 1.

I’ll go into more detail on these points in my 7 tips to find the best Clickbank product to promote, starting in my next post. More on that tomorrow.

I hope that’s already given you something to think about.

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