I'd like to hear some thoughts about gravity on Clickbank. I know people have hugely different opinions and I'm in the category that it is over rated. I have a product that has been on the market for three weeks, yesterday it had a 2. Substantially higher than my only competitor. He was at .52 So tell me, what is good? What is bad and why does it matter? Is the gravity only important within the niche? Let me know your thoughts please.
Gravity shows the quality of the product i.e it helps us to know how well the product converts. It is never the only thing that metters low gravity products covert well also. You have to test them out. 3 weeks is not enough to know gravity. Wait
Search by Popularity and choose the product that is More Popular, but has Less Gravity. When you find this combination, it means the product is selling better, and less people are promoting it...
Is gravity about conversion rate or sales? I thought it was total sales. Some say go with high gravity. Other say low as low means there are not a lot of people promoting it. Yes it is too early. It changes a lot because with such a short time period a few good days can push it up. A couple of bad days can pull it way down.
Awww flood! Great information. That's kind of like what I call the "Holy Grail of Long Tail Keywords." If you can find one that a lot of people are searching for but not a lot of competition then you have the recipe for huge traffic and traffic usually means dollars. Thanks!
Gravity is Clickbank's system to show how many affiliates are making sales in the last 12 weeks. Gravity shows what products are HOT right now. But Having High Gravity Does Not mean it is it is selling more copies than than a lower gravity alternative.
Im currently promoting a product with a gravity of 16.4 and with that product i am making about $400-$500 per week. So what i do is look at the product and put myself in the potential customers shoes and ask myself: 1. Could this product possible solve my problem or give me what im looking for? 2. Is the price right for the proposed value? 3. Maybe i should do a google search for scam alerts for this product? (not fake scam alerts that try to sell you the product) 4. Could this product give me an increase in life, help me gain something, multiply my income, cure my acne, etc? 5. basically...would you buy it? Thats what i use along with gravity. If its got a gravity of atleast 10, and it looks like something that could solve a persons problem or whatever, and theres a decent amount of people looking for this thing (google keyword tool) then i say give it a shot. usually products with a gravity of like 600 are new and being sold through email lists of 10,000 people and PPC like crazy and usually by the vendor him/herself so just because it has a super high gravity doesnt mean its a great product....but it kinda does. also means your competitoin is super high
That's not making sense to me. If it is hot how could it not be selling more than a lower gravity alternative. If the other product sold more a year ago, do I care? If I do, why do I care? I don't see it.
the gravity just means how many different marketers have sold 1 copy of it. Just because it has a low gravity does not mean the marketers that are selling it arent selling boat loads of the item.
*Essentially you shouldn't give a shit about gravity unless it's zero and has been for a while, or is on a downward trend (as an aff). *Having 2grav vs. .52 is still minimal, and even with a little help you can get to 10 very easily (influenced of course) - but yeah until you get to at least 10 naturally it's hard to look at the data openly. A few conversions here and there is nothin' for either of you and can be manipulated easily... *The only time I look at gravity anymore is when the product is outside the mmo niche and it is experiencing all natural growth that is not influenced. If you can get in on these at the early stages and tweak/hang on/scale, you could bank large and be profitable for quite some time depending on where the product/niche cap. [Norb see's tons of noobs flood cb-analytics.com and cbengine.com to find fast climbing evergreen's...]
^ This Yes gravity is just an indicator of how many unique affiliates have made a sale from the product. It can be manipulated and it really does not mean that much IMO - although when you start out and read your first MMO product you are told that if you can get a high gravity product on Clickbank you will be RICH! Of course you can ^ if it is genuine growth as NC is saying above. Look more for the presentation of the product, the sales page, and most of all the problem is solves and how much of a 'need' there is. This will do far more for you than looking at gravity but use it as a rough indicator outside the MMO niche as to how big the niche is and the affiliate awareness. Hope this helps. Chris
Gravity is not an indicator of different affiliates. Mine goes up when someone sells the second copy of my product. It goes up for each sell.
I agree with what your saying. I would only consider gravity if the item was outside of my niche. Then it might be a product I was willing to drive traffic to. Otherwise, why would I put an out of niche product on my site. it isn't likely to do well. Heck it isn't likely to do well outside of my niche even if it has high gravity.
The precise strength of gravity among most Clickbank products vary depending on their location. The nominal "average" value at Clickbank's surface, known as standard gravity is, by definition, 9.80665 m/s2 (32.1740 ft/s2). This quantity is denoted variously as gn, ge (though this sometimes means the normal equatorial value on Clickbank, 9.78033 m/s2), g0, gee, or simply g (which is also used for the variable local value). The symbol g should not be confused with "Gurus", the abbreviation for gravity (which is not italicized) =))