Affiliate Marketing 2:The Clickbank Marketplace

Affiliate Marketing 2:The Clickbank Marketplace

Of the most popular tools you can use to both promote other people's products and also have affiliates promote your own products is Clickbank.Com. This online billing and marketing service is a one-stop-shop for affiliates - I would say that it is one you can't really be without.

What Clickbank Does For You

Let's look at all Clickbank can do for you:

Clickbank provides e-Commerce electronic payment solutions for webmasters and affiliates

Clickbank processes payments for web sites that sell software and information products over the internet

Clickbank let's you sell their online digital products for a commission.

Clickbank pays you by check on the 1st and 15th of each month.

In a nutshell, Clickbank is a very simple and straightforward affiliate network that can be quite profitable if used effectively. It is an online distribution center of over 10,000 digital products; all of which are offered in an easy-to-use directory of programs (known as the Market Place).

The majority of Clickbank's programs are Internet-based companies that sell or give away Internet-based products and services. And, its systematic approach to all of this, paired with ClickBank's proven results, has enabled Clickbank to emerge on the Web as a leader in this field.

And because of the site's strong reputation and ease-of-use, you simply must give it a try and see for yourself why Clickbank now boasts more than 100,000 affiliates - and is growing as you read this!

The Clickbank Marketplace

The Clickbank marketplace is a directory of over 10,000 digital products you can sell for a commission. The Market Place is organized into nine main categories and these include:

Business to Business
Computing & Internet
Fun & Entertainment
Health & Fitness
Home & Family
Marketing & Ads
Money & Employment
Society & Culture
Sports & Recreation

Each of the nine main categories has sub-categories, which allows you to narrow down the products even further.

Before we go any further, you should visit the Clickbank Marketplace and familiarize yourself with this system.

The Marketplace Rankings Explained

As you will see, Marketplace products are ranked by what we can call a "productivity score". To preserve the integrity of the system, Clickbank does not publish the formula for the score, or the score itself, but we can safely assume that it is a function of four factors. I've given a sample listing below:

Let's look at what each of these figures means:

$ Earned / Sale : Average net amount earned per affiliate per referred sale. Note that this is the net earned per actual sale, and so it is impacted by refunds, charge backs, and sales taxes.

% Earned / Sale : Average percentage commission earned per affiliate per referred sale. This number should only vary if the publisher has changed their payout percentage over time.

% Referred : Fraction of publisher's total sales that are referred by affiliates.

Gravity : Number of distinct affiliates who earned a commission by referring a paying customer to the publisher's products. This is a weighted sum and not an actual total. For each affiliate paid in the last 8 weeks we add an amount between 0.1 and 1.0 to the total. The more recent the last referral, the higher the value added. All factors are combined, and adjusted such that more recent sales activity is given greater weight. Products are not listed until at least one has been sold.

To improve their Marketplace ranking products must show a history of reliably converting referred traffic to paying customers over the past 8 weeks. Products that maintain a higher ranking naturally attract more affiliates, and make more sales overall.

What Is Conversion?

Now, before you move on to the next chapter, I just want to take a quick minute and explain to you what "conversion" means and how important it is to you as an affiliate. Yes, get ready for one more definition.

Conversion: An equation that determines the number of visitors that become something else like subscribers, buyers or members.

For example, the conversion rate formula of visitors that subscribe or buy a product would be:

number of buyers ÷ by number of visitors

If a website has 10,000 visitors and 500 subscribe, the conversion rate equals 1 in 20, or 5%.

Stetp-1-Affiliate Marketing:1.Definition

Step-2-Affiliate Marketing : 2. The Clickbank Marketplace

Step-3-Affiliate Marketing : 3. How To Choose The Best Affiliate Programs

Step-4-Affiliate Marketing : 4. Quick Way To Start Earning Money

Step-5-Affiliate Marketing : 5. Using Pay Per Click

Step-6-Affiliate Marketing : 5a. Using Google PPC

Step-7-Affiliate Marketing : 5b. Overture Yahoo Search-

Step-8-Affiliate Marketing : 6. Advanced Pay Per Click

Step-9-Affiliate Marketing :7. Advanced Techniques

Step-10-Affiliate Marketing :8. Summary