CbproAds.com Review

29 Aug

Posted by User Image Jay as Make Money Online

CbproAds.com is a ClickBank ad program.

The basic idea is that you can embed ads on your website that link to ClickBank products. The advantage to this rather than Adsense is that your commission on ClickBank products is usually quite high. The disadvantage is that you don’t get paid for clicks, only for sales.

CbproAds.com also provides a ClickBank store front. ClickBank has loads of products, but selling them means promoting individual products. A store front organizes the products and allows visitors to browse them. When they buy, you get the commission.

So far, everything sounds pretty good. The CbproAds.com emphasizes that it’s free to join, and you get a lot of benefits. The FAQ page even has a nice chart showing the advantages of CbproAds.com over other services.

After signing up, you discover that you can only get a storefront by being a paid subscriber. As a free member, you can only put ClickBank ads on your website. They’ve priced the subscription low enough (less than $3 a month if you prepay enough in advance) that many people will subscribe because they want the storefront. In addition, you don’t earn from referrals unless you’re also a paid subscriber.

I consider this sort of bait and switch to be poor business practice. They could easily post the differences between a paid subscription and a free membership on the FAQ page, so that people new what they were getting into when they signed up. And allowing people to earn from referrals as free members is only good practice, since it gives more people an incentive to promote your business.

I may have sprung for the subscription to give the store front a try, if they’d been up front about the cost. As it is, I wouldn’t trust CbproAds.com to not pull some other bait and switch later on, and have remained a free member.

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Alex (Who am I?)

June 30th, 2008 at 11:28 am Quote
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Jay,

I agree with your assessment of cbproads. I too joined, only to discover that their ultimate goal was to get you as a paid member. Their FAQ doesn’t really go into all the details. It’s more like a sales page, and I’d be willing to bet some IM guru came up with that. I’m going to look into other alternatives before I pay for cbproads. I don’t trust them either.

Alex
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Grace (Who am I?)

August 15th, 2008 at 1:23 am Quote
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I joined this site 3 months ago, i agree with you they have to make you fee the annual fees. I gambled and i earned more than enough money to cover the yearly fees after a month. It needs a lot of traffic so i join free websites.
I believe it’s worth all the effort and since i’m still new to that service i am hoping a lot.. i’m hoping someone out there has more experience than i do.
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Hashim (Who am I?)

October 14th, 2008 at 1:05 am Quote
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Hashim wrote:

I joined this site 3 months ago, i agree with you they have to make you fee the annual fees. I gambled and i earned more than enough money to cover the yearly fees after a month. It needs a lot of traffic so i join free websites.
I believe it’s worth all the effort and since i’m still new to that service i am hoping a lot.. i’m hoping someone out there has more experience than i do.

Hi,

I have used it. It is quite good and comparatively cheaper than the many I see on the net. You can choose whatever CB products you want to promote. It also comes with the contextual type of advert that looks like Googles’s. Convenient I must say. However, these couple of days, I not able to access the site. I do hope it is temporary. Any body out there experience the same?
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Cheyenne (Who am I?)

October 15th, 2008 at 11:57 pm Quote
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I have also noticed that cb ads pro has been down for a couple of days and I am not 100% sure if I will keep using this site for much longer ( I have been a Pro Member for nearly 1 yr), they have sent no explanation to members regarding this matter.

Cheyenne wrote:

However, these couple of days, I not able to access the site. I do hope it is temporary. Any body out there experience the same?

I’m hoping they are improving there system. Because Down Time Is Not A Good Time
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juan (Who am I?)

October 16th, 2008 at 3:21 pm Quote
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I am a pro mamber of Cbproads, they are down and they have not inform customers about this, what a company!!!!…I thought they were more ethical. I just hope they fix that problem or come up with an explanation as to why they do this to their customers.
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Hashim (Who am I?)

October 16th, 2008 at 10:15 pm Quote
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Hashim wrote:

I am a pro mamber of Cbproads, they are down and they have not inform customers about this, what a company!!!!…I thought they were more ethical. I just hope they fix that problem or come up with an explanation as to why they do this to their customers.

Imagine I had to remove all the ads from some 30 sites! If they had technical problem, I am pretty sure we would be informed, as many of my other affiliates did. It’s a week now. Technical glitch usually takes not more than 3 days. There are similar programs in the net. I am really scrutinizing them first before I tell my members. As for CBproAds, I did not do any hard recommendations to anybody. I choose to test it myself first as I do to all other programs. Usually, my testing would take 6mths to a year. CBproAds has got a good engine. It is the driver that’s bad I guess If nothing comes up by next week, I guess we have to kiss them bye bye and move on. That’s life on the net
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Frank (Who am I?)

October 17th, 2008 at 1:48 am Quote
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I am a pro member with CbproAds & found that it is a total waste of money.
The prices of the Ebooks they sell with Clickbank are way to high & you need a huge amount of traffic to be lucky enough to get some dope to actually spend the money to buy.
I personally think that there are literally thousands of affiliate programs out there you can join for free so why would even bother paying them when you can simple go to Clickbank yourself & get all the Hoplinks with your own affiliate codes that you like for free. They are the middle man in this scheme so cut the middle man out & make your own money.
I will never pay anyone ever again to sell their products, instead they should pay me.
To top it off, the fools have been off line for over 1 week now, & do you think they are even descent enough to let their members know?
The answer is “NO” so what does that tell you?
Don’t throw your money away!
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Lenin Nair (Who am I?)

October 20th, 2008 at 11:19 am Quote
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Did you also know that CBproads actually inserts their own petty clickbank ID into your ads? For free members. For pro members, they ’say’ this is not the case and 100 per cent of the time it will be our own clickbank ID. But I don’ trust them.

As you say, their site was quite a bit messed up and didn’t look professional and yes not revealing about the payment upfront is quite unprofessional. It is good to say they are losers. No one should give them a try!

Lenin
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