Recently I came across a program that sells ready-made sites for affiliate marketers and from what I can see, there is plenty of positive feedback. Curious to know what the hype was all about, I decided to check it out myself. Inside this 1 Click Affiliate Site review, we’ll discover a one of a kind monetizing system and find out if it’s really as reliable as it seems. Let’s dig into the details.
1 Click Affiliate Site at a Glance
The main purpose of the program is to provide you with an affiliate site, containing numerous digital product reviews that can be easily replaced with your affiliate links. The site is created by an internet marketer called Ankur Shukla who also owns other online programs.
A Clickbank, WarriorPlus, and JVZoo user IDs will be required for the setup process. These accounts can be easily applied for free and in the case of Clickbank, you are automatically approved for all vendor’s programs.
For Warrior Plus and JVZoo, application approval is required and you can do so easily from within the website. It usually takes 24 to 48 hours to get the green light from the vendors and after that, the entire thing is basically transformed into your affiliate site.
Here is a short video depicting how the process works.
It looks really simple, right? And here’s the deal.
By purchasing the program, there’s no need to buy a domain name or a hosting service. In fact, you don’t even need to create any content because all the review pages will be provided. You just have to activate certain programs, key in the author’s information, your social sharing links, and the site is pretty much good to go.
On the outside, it looks just like any other regular blog. Professionally laid out with videos, images, and product review boxes that display attractive rating scores and easy to understand summaries. The write up is not exceptionally great but decent.
The Cost
The system is sold through Warrior Plus and it claims to offer up to 70% discount. The yearly license costs $24 and the one-time unlimited license is $26.17. Once payment is being made, you will receive an email to create a log in password to the back office (a WordPress site) to tweak the settings.
At this point in time, there are 41 review pages listed on the basic site, all of which are digital products such as membership training, online courses, and eBooks that derived from the online marketing and health & fitness niche. If you choose to upgrade, you can get an additional 10 reviews every month – at least, that’s what it says on the fine print.
Does The Affiliate Site Actually Work?
There’s no doubt the system is very easy to set up and very appealing for those who are new to affiliate marketing. What’s more, it offers almost instant access to many digital product offers that pay lucrative sales commissions.
Technically, it looks functional but before you get too excited about it, there are a few things I want to bring to your attention. Have you ever considered how the site drives traffic? I have and it’s baffling. No matter how easy the process may seem, a site must be able to generate traffic otherwise, it would be pointless.
Traffic Troubles
When we talk about free traffic, some elements must be present to enable search engines to detect what a site is all about. A unique domain name, fresh content and reader’s engagement are the few important ones. However, Ankur’s ready-made affiliate site seems to fall short on these aspects.
Firstly, the domain assigned to your site – – is the same URL as other members would get when they join the system. There are no variations whatsoever and the only difference lies in the ID settings. For example, my specific URL is https://internetreviewer.net/?aid=1334 and yours could be https://internetreviewer.net/?aid=1828. Both of these will point to the same domain so it’s more like identify links, rather than actual unique domain names.
Secondly, you are not given any control over the content of the site. All reviews are compiled in a special plugin called 1-Click Affiliate that has no page or post features to write on. That means you can’t add new reviews nor edit preexisting ones either. New content can only be added from the creator’s end and you’ll need to pay a price for that.
And there are other things that bother me about the quality of the content too.
- Every single page is a product review. There are no topic diversities like how-to tips or informative articles that can attract a different set of audience.
- Each page only contains about 600 to 800 words. By today’s standard, 1000 words or more will get you to the first page of Google. The last I checked, one of the reviews on this ready-made site ranks on the 3rd page. As for the rest, I couldn’t find them at all.
- The content is somewhat sparse, generic and promotional in tone. Interestingly, all products are highly rated. Some are Ankur’s own marketing products yet some are clearly junk that I’ve reviewed like Ted’s WoodProfit. Embedded among the content is also ads linking to sub-par products like AppCoiner and ClickBank University that I’ve personally tried, but wasn’t that impressed.
- There are no comment sections for each review either and that shows a lack of actual readers engagement. The most you get is just page view numbers but that doesn’t really count for anything.
Based on these factors, I don’t think the site will garner much traction for organic traffic even if you try to push it. Yet Ankur’s team has something else to say about that. For a certain fee, they can help you to get traffic and leads and it will involve things like backlinking, email marketing and some kind of automation software. I personally don’t fancy using backlinking strategies that much because there’s a tendency to abuse it and putting your website at risk. I rather let backlinking occur naturally through social sharing and readers’ comments.
Regardless of the technique, it’s still a hands-off process. You just need to pay and they will do the rest of the marketing work. It sounds absurdly simple and I wonder who runs an affiliate business that way? I mean, you don’t even have the slightest clue about the traffic quality that is being sent your way.
Is it even possible to make money with this kind of system?
Money Machine (Or Not?)
All the positive reviews about 1 Click Affiliate Site talks about the ease of set up but doesn’t say if they actually monetize from it or not. The only person who showed proof is Ankur (the creator) himself. It seems odd though.
As seen earlier, traffic generation is already tricky the organic way. Yet, they say the site can become more profitable if you subscribe to more advanced services.
- Become a Pro User = $47 for the first 30 days, then $27 every 30 days thereafter. Features include site customization, 10 new product reviews every month, backlinking and SEO.
- Get Traffic and Leads = $47 one-time fee. Features include getting leads to your email list, increase organic traffic and make more sales.
- Promo Email Packages = $37 one-time fee. Features include copy and paste 100 email templates to promote your 1 Click Affiliate Site.
- Re-seller License = $197 one-time fee. Includes the ability to sell 200 accounts at any price you want.
- Agency License = $97 one-time fee. Includes the ability to sell 50 accounts. Includes the ability to sell 200 accounts at any price you want.
That’s a total of 5 up-sells and it’s almost like outsourcing marketing work to someone else except that in this case, you don’t really know what they are doing. Meanwhile, you are actually paying for stuff that can be done/access for much less.
In this hands-off system, you don’t get insights like niche keywords or search analytics because there’s no ability to do so. You literally don’t know who your audience is, so how is it possible to sell anything to them?
Do you really expect Ankur’s team to send free traffic your way so that you can earn product commissions with just a few simple clicks? I doubt so and I don’t think it’s as simple as it seems.
Anyways, I did have my site and ID all set up with 1 Click hands-off system a few hours ago, so we shall see in the next few days if there’s any money trickling into my accounts.
My Verdict
As far as making money from a review blog is concerned, I’ve not seen anyone who does it with their hands in the pocket. Successful marketers like Pat Flynn and Pew Die Pie offers a lot of content through their blogs and channels before they can achieve any level of passive income.
They didn’t just put links on some review pages and let someone else do the marketing work for them. They market themselves every day, honing their writing/communication skills and engaging with ever-growing audience size.
They don’t just promote, but they also offer knowledgeable values in terms of free content as well. That means, they research and write a lot about their niche before selling anything. Those are the traits of hard working affiliate marketers and the qualities of genuine online entrepreneurs.
If you are still interested to get hold of done-for-you affiliate sites, I would recommend buying content-rich and optimized ones from reputable sources. They are known to produce quality sites that can convert organically (and paid) and you get a ton of back-office support too. Needless to say, it will require a big chunk of investment as well.
If you prefer to start from scratch – given zero experience and a minimum budget – then head over to Wealthy Affiliate to learn how to set up a WordPress site and generate long term free traffic.
This program has helped me earn my first dollar online in 2014 and I have been doing so continuously to this day. I trust it is a far better resource for you compared to the cookie-cutter 1 Click Affiliate Site.
What do you think about this review? Have you ever made any money from done-for-you sites? Please let us know your comments down below.
Feochadan says
Errrrrrr, isn’t this system just going to create a TON of duplicate content on the web? We know how Google and the other search engines frown on this. I’m bookmarking your page in the hopes that you report back to us as to how many millions you rake in over the next few days (NOT!) and how it went.
I think it’s awesome that you are trying this out for us and I hope there is some kind of money-back guarantee if things don’t work out as claimed.
Cathy says
Yes, you’re right. It will indeed create a lot of duplicate content. I didn’t test the program too far after experiencing a few glitches. For me, it’s all just a hype and I don’t see the point of using a done-for-you system in today’s online marketing landscape.
Carolyn says
Hi Cathy, I read your post with interest. I too am trying to get an online business going. Somehow I do not think that you can pay someone to do all of the work and then expect to get paid. Building a long term business often takes a lot of work and dedication. It doesn’t just happen overnight.
Nuttanee says
I am not a big fan of the done-for-you system. The only consistent traffic, in my opinion, is the organic one from SEO and also from your e-mail list that you are engaging with your audience. Sad but true, it doesn’t take one click. It takes time to build trust because traffic is actually people. I won’t be wasting my money on this software for sure.
Alblue says
Hi Cathy, I was interested in this a bit as I was searching for something with minimal work, but seeing what it provides such as the generic content – doesn’t impress me. I still think that providing unique content is critical to the success of an online marketer. If other sites are just replicas of what you are doing, it will make no difference to the readers.