Clickbank Marketplace

Submitted by KE on Mon, 04/21/2008 - 14:27.

Clickbank has a section called marketplace or clickbank engine where you can do research in order to find out which niched products to sell.

It shoots out a bunch of data however and I was wondering if anyone was familiar with this feature on clickbank. i.e. what's the most effective/accurate measure of a good niche. i.e. one with high demand and low competition.

is it the gravity index, the momentum, the % of sales earned, etc, etc,?

How to interpret ClickBank data

Submitted by woodsja on Sat, 04/26/2008 - 04:20.

KE,
The data in ClickBank marketplace can be used to give you a rough idea how hot a niche is. The two most important pieces of data for me are the gravity and the %refd. A product with a high gravity means there are a lot of affiliates promoting it. This is a very good indicator as to whether affiliates are having success. However, you should be careful before you go promoting a product. If the gravity is 400 you are going to get killed trying to compete with other affiliates. The second piece of data is %refd which tells you the percent of sales made by affiliates. For example %refd 90% means that 90% of the merchant sales are made by affiliates. The %refd is a great indicator as to how affiliate friendly the merchant is. Lastly you want to look at the $/sale which tells you the average commission earned per sale.

I have never used CB Engine before so I can't really comment on the momentum indicator but I can tell you that when you're evaluating CB offers the rule of thumb is a 1% conversion rate. I hope this helps.

Cheers,

Jason Woods

thanks woodsja . the info

Submitted by KE on Mon, 04/28/2008 - 18:16.

thanks woodsja . the info above is really helpful.

clickbank product disallowed by google

Submitted by thunderridge on Mon, 05/12/2008 - 13:50.

Yesterday Google disallowed all of my ads for the "dish tv on pc" clickbank product I was promoting. It's interesting because if you search on "watch tv online" you'll get a load of ads with the same text promoting the same products. I'm confused because the landing page says it's legal, and I assumed clickbank wouldn't let people sell illegal products. I'm not getting how they can have all these affiliates selling it, if it's illegal and google disapproves the ads? Here's the text from google:

>Please note that we do not allow devices that tamper with products to
access data or manipulate fees. In addition, we do not allow satellite/TV
to PC services; software that streams channels via PCs or other means are
unacceptable.

Was wondering if anyone has any general thoughts on this - is it common that clickbank has products that google deems illegal?

Thanks - Harriet

It doesn't say illegal, it

Submitted by KirkMcd on Mon, 05/12/2008 - 20:31.

It doesn't say illegal, it says "unacceptable"

The satellite tv on pc products are practically scams, they are best avoided. And yes CB has other products that are practically scams, but they are trying to clean themselves up.

well the first email I got

Submitted by thunderridge on Tue, 05/13/2008 - 16:37.

well the first email I got actually did say I was promoting "hacking and cracking", which I think translates to illegal. Thanks for the response. Yahoo also ended up stopping my campaign there so I just fully deleted them both. I guess I was fairly naive thinking that if it was on clickbank, and if the publisher said it was legal, then I assumed it was ok. Interesting lesson learned. - H