Finding Clickbank Affiliate Programs

In this article I will be walking you through selecting Clickbank affiliate programs that actually make money - I'll be sharing the strategies you need to pick the right products that will bring you income.

Why Clickbank?
We'll be using Clickbank for this discussion for 4 reasons:

1. Clickbank is easy to work with – they handle the details of managing your commissions
2. They have good research tools that make choosing the right product easier
3. Clickbank affiliate programs pay higher commissions than elsewhere, and…
4. They are the largest affiliate network of digital products in the world, with over 10,000 digital products to choose from!

Internet Marketers tend to use Clickbank when starting out for these reasons, and many of them stay with Clickbank promoting Clickbank affiliate programs exclusively, and making good money!

So let's get started.
First, go to the Clickbank Marketplace

https://www.clickbank.com/marketplace.htm

This is where you search for products. If you have already researched some keywords and are looking for products relevant to these keywords, type the primary keyword phrase into the "Find Products:" field at the top of the page. Click the search button (the grey square with a magnifying glass to the right of the field).

If you don't have your keywords yet, you can navigate through the categories at the left side of the page - When you click on a category, a submenu with subcategories will drop down. Choose one of these subcategories.

Once you find the niche you want to investigate, sort the list by "Gravity". To do this, there is a dropdown list called "Sort results by:" at the top of the list. This value will currently be either "Keyword Relevance" or "Popularity", depending on whether you searched for a keyword phrase or navigated through the categories. Change this value to "Gravity", and make sure the "High to Low" radio button is selected (to the right of the Sort field).

Each product listing has several metrics listed under it:

• "Initial $/sale"
• "Avg %/sale"
• "Avg Rebill Total"
• "Avg %/rebill"
• "Grav"
• "Cat"

The two we are most concerned with are "Initial $/sale" and "Grav". Explanations of the rest of these metrics can be found in the Clickbank help pages (and in my blog, mentioned below), so I won't explain them here.

"Initial $/sale" is the approximate commission you will receive for each sale, after Clickbank takes it's commissions and fees. I want this to be $20 or more (USD) to be worthwhile.

"Grav" - Gravity - an indication of how many affiliates are promoting the product. High gravity means lots of affiliate marketers are selling the product. Gravity that's too low means it's not selling, too high could mean too much competition. I want this between 20 and 100.

Find 3 or 4 products that meet these criteria, and find each products "Merchant ID". This can be found by clicking the green "Promote" button to the right in each product listing. A screen will pop up, and the ID will be in the maroon bar at the top of the popup.

It will say "Affiliate Program: Promote Products for 'xxxx' (xxxx will be replaced by the Merchant ID).

Copy this ID and go to:

http://www.cbtrends.com/clickbank-products-performance-trends.html

On this page, put the Merchant ID in the "Please Enter the Vendor ID:" field, and click the "Click to Got the Performance Trends" button. This will bring up a page with product statistics. Scroll down until you see a big yellow box with "Performance Trends for " (xxxx = Merchant ID), and a line that gives the timeframe of the data in red. Below that will be a series of graphs labeled:

• Popularity
• Gravity
• Earned per Sale (USD)
• Referred (%)
• Percent per Sale (%)
• Commission (%)

Popularity and Gravity are our primary concerns.

Popularity is exactly what it sounds like - How many people buy the product. Lower is better, so you want this graph to be sloping down.

Gravity is an indication of how many affiliates are promoting the product. High gravity means lots of affiliate marketers are selling the product, which usually means it's a good product to market. This graph should be sloping upward.

These are the two metrics that are most important - Popularity should be rising (sloping downward) and Gravity should also be rising (sloping upward). Choose the product with the best trends and start marketing!

In Conclusion:

We have discussed the importance of product research in finding Clickbank affiliate programs that convert well, and we've outlined a basic plan for discovering the gems that can put money in your pocket. For a more detailed explanation and lots of other Internet Marketing tips, visit my blog, mentioned below.

Finding Clickbank affiliate programs that convert isn't hard at all - with the tools available at Clickbank it's easy!

Good Luck!

CJ