Well, you need to look at the following: -Good gravity -Popular niche with little traffic -Good sales copy, graphics alone dont make a site sell, provided the site has a nice, clean layout. Even better if they offer a strong call to action for the purchase, and bonuses with it. -Good affiliate resources by the publisher, shows he cares for the people making his money. And finally, ask yourself if YOU would buy the same product, or whether the page makes you feel interested in the product and wanting to explore further. If it fails to capture any interest whatsoever, ditch it and find another nice niche to explore. All teh best.
Also keep in mind that thers no guarantee that you will be successful with a program even if its all of the above. So dont give up with your first attempt since its part of the game, just test products for a small period of time without spending too much resources on them at first, then when you find one with potential you can focus further on it. Good Luck
I recommend cross testing. Pick a product at Clickbank. Then pick a similar product to promote at either paydot.com or e-junkie. Create landing pages for each. Drive traffic to each. Test your conversions. If you are doing the same work promoting to both pages, there is a strong chance given Clickbank's recent tracking problems and complete idiocy about admitting those problems, that you'll make a lot more with Paydot.com or e=junkie than with Clickbank. Clickbank is NOT crediting all sales for either publishers or affiliates, period. Read elsewhere on the Net about this. I don't want you to lose your hard earned commissions. If you don't want to give up on Clickbank, I recommend the cross testing approach. I did that after Clickbank stopped tracking my sales correctly. Sales fell down to zero through my Clickbank links but sales to my Paydot.com products I am promoting remain at the usual 2.5% conversion that I used to get with Clickbank before they started to completely suck. Mark my word, at some point one of Clickbank's major players is going to sue them for commission theft - and then things will get very interesting. Dan
Avoid the huge gravity niches. Go for something where most products are 20-50. These will be solid long term earners. Health niches are one good example.
I would recommend following criterias: Gravity between 20 and 100. Gravity is increasing (positive momentum). Payout not less than $20, otherwise your PPC campaign might not be profitable. Google Page Rank is not zero, indicating that at least some people are aware about the product. You can see all matching products here and adjust filters as necessary.
I hardly look at gravity since some people just don't know how to attract affiliates but have massive selling products. Choose something you can relate to the need it answers
Yep to all the above. Gravity, I like it to be above 100. Commission should be above $20, preferably above $30. That gives you a little more margin for error if you're doing PPC. If you're doing PPC, commit to $500 max budget first off to see if you get decent results. If you can, when you do your keyword research, make sure you're not paying more than say 30c a click. Then you only need around 1 sale in 100 clicks to get you going.