I have been seeing a lot of comments about converting, and waiting to promote a product. How do you know if it is converting well? Is there someplace to do the research?
Trial and error. There are products with 5 gravity that covert for affiliates, while there are products that have 500 gravity that dont convert. Build a good landing page, drive traffic and track everything. That is the formula for a successful campaign.
1. Choose the niche that you are familiar with. 2. Review them and choose the best. 3. Build a good landing page. 4. Write high quality content (tell your visitor what benefits they will get from your products). 5. Drive traffic to your landing page. (Do remember quality traffic, or you may confuse why 2000 hops, no sale)
That's important, but not necessarily. Low gravity products can convert well too, but you need to test them.
For the gravity, I would like to math that, then you could get it easily. 1) 100 affs, each makes 1 sale per day, then the total sales are 100. Gravity would be 100+ 2) 1 aff, who makes 100 sales per day, then the total sales are 100, too. Gravity would be 10+ Thougt the tatal sales is the same, the gravity of the first one is much higher than the second one.
If you want to check high converting products. Pick up 5 products in different niches and monitor the ppc ads for some of the targeted keywords. If you see stable players in top 5 ads means the product is converting well. Just test it for 7-10 days.
Gravity is not important because it includes the number of people competing for the product promotion. Take for example, drug addiction niche is really very popular but there are not many good products for that in CB. I tried it out and converted excellently.
Actually, 2) 1 aff = 100 sales a day = gravity 1. Each affiliate represents one gravity point that slides from 1 to .01 over 8 weeks. If you see gravity 100, it doesn't mean 100 aff's made sales that day. It means 100 made sales over the last 8 weeks. Even then each affiliates sales is sliding downwards to .01 each day that they don't convert, so 100 is probably more like 150 rounded over the last 8 weeks... You can use sites like our http://www.nichejunky.com and click on products, this will show you charting for each with trends to monitor gravity and other stats. Gravity doesn't mean that the site and product are huge and popular compared to low grav. It just means not many have converted it. There are indeed low gravity products that bank HUGE but you'd never know until you tested them as well. There are products where the publishers don't really want affiliates, they just use CB to process orders, and do their own marketing... Don't let gravity discourage you, and don't take any 'make money' products gravity seriously either. 500 gravity = 400 CB affiliates buying with their own links, 50 came in through the publishers CBID rotator script, and 50 are real affiliate sales (just an example). N.
Def. use an analytic site in conjunction with gravity and check out the ppc ads..people dont spend money promoting products that don't convert for them.
If you sort by popularity, you will get a better idea of how well it will convert. You will see a lot of lower gravity products much higher in the rankings than their higher gravity competition. For example: If a product has 30 affiliates make a sale on its first day, it will have a gravity of 30. If another product had 1 affiliate make 50 sales on its first day, it will have a gravity of 1 but will rank higher than the 30 gravity product. Gravity is more important to the actual vendor because the higher the gravity the more secure their product. Meaning if in the above example the first vendor lost 10 affiliates after that first day, he still has 20 affiliates. If the second vendor loses his one affiliate, then he has nothing.