Affiliate X Reviewed

It’s official now, Chris McNeeney also known as Chris X has launched his new product called Affiliate X.   

As a reviewer, I have been able to get early access to Affiliate X (proof below).

The Affiliate X package includes several affiliate softwares and 3 methods that Chris X calls “Systems” for profiting from Adwords, SEO and Twitter – 3 of the hottest topics in affiliate marketing today.

I have been able to explore the Affiliate X software and have read the 3 systems with a lot of interest.

On this page I’m describing the content of the package and giving my thoughts about the different Affiliate X components.

For those of you who don’t know, Chris X is the author of several Clickbank Bestsellers: Affiliate Project X, Adwords Miracle, Day Job Killer, and several others. More recently he released CB Quantum which was the only high priced product he ever released.

Affiliate X – Quick Overview

Affiliate X has 2 Main components: The systems to use and the “affiliates opportunities” to target. There are also some softwares integrated in the system that I will describe later in this article.

Each of the 3 systems found in Affiliate X is teaching a specific method of making money. One system being dedicated to Adwords, another one to Twitter and the 3rd one to SEO (more specifically: how to profit from product launches via free organic traffic).

Each system comes with a PDF manual and a video describing a specific method.

The primary aim of AffiliateX is to help you identify the hottest Clickbank products to sell and choose the very best keywords to target.

When you log in to the members area you have a few different options (Click on the image to zoom):

Before talking about the 3 Affiliate X money making systems, let’s explore each section of the Affiliate X Software.

Affiliate X – Crash Course

The Help section is particularly helpful for complete beginners thanks to the online Knowledge Base.

If you are just starting out in affiliate marketing, you should get familiar with all the concepts explained in this section before reading the 3 more advanced Affiliate X money making systems.

On the other hand, if you are already making money online or if you have a good understanding of affiliate marketing, then don’t spend too much time in the Help section as you will probably not learn anything new.

Here are some of the topics covered in the Knowledge Base:

• The Different Types of Affiliate Promotion
• Selecting a Clickbank winner
• What the heck is a hoplink?
• How To Write Without Writing
• Keyword Research That Pays
• The Power Of Ad Groups
• How To Write A Killer Ad
• Navigating Adwords
• Why “Cloaking” Isn’t Just For Star Trek
• What Is A Conversion
• Keyword Conversion Tracking
• Why Track Conversions?
• How To Write Profit-Pulling Review Pages
• Monitoring Your AdWords Account

For beginners and intermediate marketers, Chris X also gives access to his Adwords Miracle product as a bonus. Adwords Miracle covers all the basics of Pay Per Click and affiliate marketing – with over 100 pages of content, and over an hour of video training.

The Video section of Affiliate X is also here for your education. You will find videos for beginners, intermediate and advanced marketers. This section is going to grow regularly and thanks to the rating system it is easy to find the most interesting videos.

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Affiliate X – Keywords Tools

There are 2 different keyword tools in the Affiliate X software:

1. Keyword Tool X
2. Niche Traffic Finder

1. Keyword Tool X

Keyword Tool X gives you access to a database of several million keywords, with estimated Cost Per Click and monthly search volumes on Google, Yahoo and MSN.

The software is extremely fast and in my testings I got 200 results in about 1 second.

In the results listing there is also a column called “SEO special sauce”. This is a rating which shows how competitive a keyword is for free “organic” listings in the search engines.  The higher the SEO Special Sauce score, the easier a keyword is to rank for.

In the Affiliate X software, you will learn how to read this value and which score you can easily target.

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2. Niche Traffic Finder

The Niche Traffic Finder is a great tool for Bum Marketers. Enter any keyword you want and you will be able to sort the returned long tail keywords by competition level.

Once again, the results are returned extremely quickly – about 1 second or less!

Then just write an article targeting all those long tail keywords, starting by the first result all down to the last one and you will soon receive a lot of easy traffic to your offers. Furthermore, if you use the method explained in the Affiliate X SEO System (More info on that below) you can realistically grab top rankings for many of those keywords.

Affiliate X – Product Research?

Picking the right product to promote is not an easy task. In my newsletter and forum I have written about the criterias to look at before jumping into a promotion. The process of product evaluation can be time consuming.

Generally speaking if you catch the right product at the right time you increase your chances to make huge profits dramatically. On the other hand, if you get the wrong product or if you miss the best window of opportunity, risks of failure are extremely high. Missing the window of opportunity is usually the main reason why a lot of affiliates are not making money from a product promotion.

In Affiliate X there are 3 different sections that list the best products to promote right now: Alerts, Top 100 and Adwords Rated.

1. Clickbank Alerts

Chris X has already explained in another course how to pick the right products at the right time. Now with Affiliate X he has automated the whole process.

The “Alerts” module tells you which products are currently the hottest selling in each category within the Clickbank Marketplace. These are the fastest ‘rising stars’ up the sales charts, so to speak.

The reason why this tool is so powerful is that the current Clickbank rankings only tell you which products are the top sellers today. However, the majority of affiliates will be promoting the top products, so there may be too much competition to contend with. But our Clickbank Alerts tells you which products are selling the fastest and heading for the top, but not too many affiliates will know about these right now, so you can cash in fast before they hit the mainstream. This is just like discovering a low priced penny stock in the stock market, getting in early and making a killing before everyone finds out about it and drives the price up to ridiculous levels. So you can see why using this tool is an extremely powerful way of selecting which products to promote in your PPC or SEO campaigns.

On the Alerts page, you can have a quick look at the clickbank statistics of all the listed products. Additionally you can click on the “Advanced Intel” link to get a graphical view of the historical stats of those products.

By clicking on “Adwords tracking code” you can build your Adwords keywords list and automatically have an embedded tracking code for all of them.

2. Clickbank Top 100

On this page the Affiliate X software lists the top 100 ClickBank products by gravity (highest first). This is intended to give you an overview of the movers and shakers on ClickBank at any one time. This page includes all the data of the Affiliate X CB marketplace (advanced intel, tracking etc), but it also includes a separate link to “keywords”.

This link gives you 100+ targeted keywords for each of the top 100 products – to give you a push in the right direction. These can be entered into the Keyword Tool X software, or used to build niche websites to promote those products.

3. Adwords Rated

The “Adwords Rated” module tells you which products are currently the top sellers on Google Adwords.

These are products personally hand picked by Chris X as being hot to promote on Google Adwords now.

Seeing the Adwords alerts stars next to a product means, at the very least, there is a viable market for Adwords for this product – and very probably other similar products in that niche.

4. Clickbank Sales Tracking

Once you have launched a PPC campaign, it is absolutely crucial that you track your keywords to see which ones convert into a sale for you and which ones do not. If you can accurately track your keywords, you have a much greater chance of running profitable PPC campaigns: you simply cut your spending on non-converting keywords and increase your spend on the keywords that are resulting in sales.

The Affiliate X CB Sales Tracking tool makes it super easy to track your keywords using your Clickbank report: simply download your “myTransactions.csv” file from ClickBank, saving it to your own pc and then select the file to load into the tool and view your sales conversion statistics.

The first time I tried to use the tracker I received the following message though:

The file you are attempting to upload is larger than the permitted size.

So if you are making many sales per day, you should select a period no larger than a week or so.

You are then able to view at a glance the total number of sales you made for each tracking ID as well as the number of recurring sales and the number of rebills. This is very good information to have because you can see which tracking IDs generate a lot of rebills and act accordingly.

Ok, so I have covered the first component of Affiliate X: the software. Now let’s talk about the second element which is IMHO more important: The 3 Affiliate X Money Making Systems.