I do not understand what some of these amounts are showing:- $/sale: Money made on a sale? Future $: Future payments. Total $/sale: Total amount made? %/sale: ? %refd: % of selling price? grav: How well it converts. If anyone could clarify.. Clickbank don't seem to bother.
$/Sale - Amount made on the first sale. Future $ - The amount made on future payment, e.g. if the vendor has some continuity programme. Total $/Sale - Future + $/Sale. %/Sale - The percentage of the sale price that you recieve. %Refd - The percent of sales that are pushed by affiliates, e.g. if it is 70% then 30% of the sales are pushed by the vendor (no affiliate) and 70% are pushed by the affiliates. Gravity - Many people have different theories on this, but all agree that it relates to how many affiliates are succesfully selling the product. Peace .
So what you are saying is that if I sold this product I would get 70% of the total sale? Or that the vendor accounts for 30% of the total sale and 70% of the sale come from affiliates?
$/sale means how much money an affiliate makes on an average sale. $/future only applies to products which have subscription payments. it's how much money an affiliate makes on average on on those future payments. this is a highly unreliable number as it isn't accurate for some time. total $/sale this combines the top two numbers. for most products it's the same as the $/sale. %/sale is how much you (as an affiliate) make from each sale. for example if a product is $100 and the %/sale is 75% then you make $75. but in reality it's lower than that because CB takes out their fees first. you don't need to break out a calculator to figure out how much you'll make per sale, just refer to the $/sale. %/refd is what percentage of the sales are made by affiliates. for example if there are 100 sales of the product and 90 of them are made by affiliates then this number would be 90%. i don't really think this number is worth paying attention to because it can be easily manipulated by vendors because even if they are making most of their sales themselves (or stealing affiliate commissions through email) they can use their own affiliate ID so it still shows up as an affiliate sale. grav is definitely NOT how well it converts. it's very very important to realize that. there is no way of knowing how well something converts on clickbank until you try to promote it yourself. take anything you read on the vendor's page with a big ol' grain of salt. what the gravity number indicates is how many active successful affiliates there are promoting a product (ie how many affiliates have made a sale within the last couple of months.) a high number indicates that a lot of others have made sales with it so that's a good sign, but it also means there's a lot of competition. this number can also be manipulated by vendors who have multiple affiliate accounts.