Hi All, I'm new to Clickbank. How do you go about selecting which CB product to promote? Gravity, popularity...what are the ideal ranges?
look, don't care about the gravity! find which product get sales and start promotion and create your market!! much people finding product or the best by its gravity but reality you can sell many products which get sales and with less gravity!
I pick products that match the markets I have researched. No point in "marketing" until you have done the market research. If you pick a product then try to create a market... or just build and link then you will likely fail.
You usually want to pick a product that has a gravity greater than 50, that means people have purchased it before in short.
Pick something that is already selling. There is nothing wrong with low gravity (less than 20) but you gotta think of it like this. Promoting those products will work, but what kind of sales are you looking for? It could be that you find a product that is a hot item but no-one has jumped on it yet, or you will get a sale once a month. There is no wrong or right way but most people tend to think that if you go for the top 20 CB products you stand a much greater chance of making sales because they are already selling. Demand is proven, you just need to find a way to get your traffic. I've sold things on CB that I thought would never sell, but people still buy them. So you can't go wrong whatever way you go. Pick something, drive traffic to it and just see how it goes.
If its your first time promoting a product choose a niche that you are interested. reaserch the niche and see if it is vaible to spend time setting up and promoting a site. Look in the clickbank marketplace for a product in your niche, look at products with grav of 10 - 30 (personal pref) with a nice clean design, easy to read text and good copy, video a bonus but not required. Health niche or more specificly alternative treatments is always a good converter. steer clear of IM as competition is often very high. Forex can be a good money maker but watchout for refunds.
I pick -Gravity of at least 60 -Low Refund Rates -Great Sales Page -Recurring Commissions are always Nice
It may be an idea to split test too similar products with your promotions as I have found that some of the lower gravity products do very well. Basically gravity is an indicator of distinct affiliates sales and as affiliates tend to flock to the higher gravity products sometimes the lower ones can get more sales. The main thing is to remember to make sure you have good, engaging sales copy and that it is a good niche. Chris
I pick products by there sales pages if I came across this myself would I buy it. As long as the gravity is around 30 to 40% then I test it. The high gravity sites there is usually a lot of compition and the keywords are not a easy. You might not get rich this way, but market a few different products and see what happens. The product may be good they just might not have a lot of affiliates marketing it so the gravity is low. Give it a shot see what happens.
Hi, I've only just joined but have been in IM for a while (2 years). I'm also working on this. My plan is to choose some really good products with demand and then do some prolific article marketing (and also outsource some articles). To write the articles effectively you need to have some good longtail keywords to base your articles on. Also you need to be able to rank for these keywords so you may need to take this into account when considering products. Here is a plan (I'm working on other projects at the moment, but I'll be doing this shortly) which could be useful (in helping decide how to select clickbank products) 1) Find 5 niche's that are in demand by browsing websites like these: http://pulse.ebay.com http://www.google.com/trends/hottrends http://www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers/books/ref=sv_b_3 http://www.google.com/press/zeitgeist/ http://www.technorati.com/ http://www.blogpulse.com/ http://www.blogpulse.com/conversation http://buzzlog.buzz.yahoo.com/overall/ http://www.google.com/insights/search/ 2) Go to clickbank and choose your products. A website that really useful for sorting out CB products is http://www.cbengine.com/ Look at the sales pages of the products and make sure they are going to convert. Is the product good value? Is there good back up for customers? I would try and get hold of the owner and find out what the conversion rate is of the sales page. 3) Find at least 5 longtail keywords for each niche. More if you can find them 4) Write at least 5 articles per niche. More if possible. Not a writer? You could outsource. A good place to outsource articles are http://www.textbroker.com And there are many more. 5) Either get a domain and redirect potential customers to the highly converting sales page, or set up a quick website / blogger blog / whatever, and perhaps capture their email address and build a list or just send them onto the sales page. 6) Publish your articles 7) Concentrate on promoting and driving traffic to your articles (another subject) Anyway, hope some of the above websites help in choosing the products. Regards Francis
My formula for finding profitable CB products to promote = Choose a market u r interested ina nd know about + look for a product that has great copy and offer that definitely solves a market problem + gravity of atleast 20 + commsion of atleast $20 + No squeeze pages, just directly to sales page.
Its a good idea. Make sure you do not select a product solely on the basis of how good it looks. A good looking page with lots of graphics, videos and flashy banners may not necessarily sell as good as a simple page (built from a simple PLR template) with a nice copy. I have gone through it in my own products that sell much better than the flashy ones. Don't go for graphics and flash banners, see the copy. Make sure the vendor isn't just collecting emails on the page. A few days back I signed up to the opt-in list of a top CB vendor (its a product with a huge gravity & its running for years now. I could in no way imagine that he would be doing something wrong. The first email I got from him had a link to another similar site first & the original site at the end. I'd call that stealing!! So try your best to NOT go for a page that collects emails.) There are lots of vendors that allow you to make their own affiliate links that redirect to your own clickbank hoplink. They claim that such links look cleaner and can't be hijacked. Its true but don't go for something that the vendor controls! I tried doing this for a xbox 360 fix vendor here on DP. A few months later when I clicked my link and went down to the checkout page, I was shocked to see that my referrals were being credited to another affiliate! These are little things that may cause losses. So better watch out. I personally don't like multiple sales pages. I go for anything that pays above $10 per sale.