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Post by Erich on Sept 15, 2006 6:37:24 GMT -5
I get emails quite frequently from people who do not understand the Clckbank Marketplace Stats and what they mean and how the listings are ranked... Here are some clarifications: How The ClickBank Marketplace WorksClickBank's 100,000+ affiliates earn a percentage of every purchase made by every customer they refer to any ClickBank product. These affiliates generate well over half of the sales of our top selling products. The ClickBank Marketplace is where affiliates go to select the products to which they will refer traffic. Every product listed in the ClickBank Marketplace is associated with a sales commission rate. Commission percentages range from 1% to 75%. On any one sale the minimum commission is $0.25 and the maximum is $100.00. In the Marketplace products are ranked by their "productivity score". To preserve the integrity of the system we do not publish the formula for the score, or the score itself, but we can say that it is a function of these four factors $Earned/Sale: Average net amount earned per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, chargebacks, and sales taxes. (Effective 28 July 2005, unfunded sales, such as returned checks, do not impact this number.) %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. How are the recommendations sorted in My Marketplace? My Marketplace recommendations are sorted so the best matches are listed at the top and in descending relevance order. How does My Marketplace work? My Marketplace provides customized recommendations for products you should consider promoting as a ClickBank affiliate. We analyze your sales history, and that of related products to develop a set of recommendations just for you. We continually evaluate sales data from the previous 15 weeks and assign scores to the products you have already sold and to related products with sales during the same time period. Products with a sufficiently high score are then presented to you in the My Marketplace screen. Products are displayed in relevance order for your convenience. Products marked with an * are those you have successfully sold during the past 15 week period. The following recommendations are refreshed weekly so be sure to check back often for updates. These are my favorite Clickbank income sources for those searching for work at home job or income source.... use them to make money or become an affiliate and add to your website
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Post by stirls on Sept 15, 2006 8:57:56 GMT -5
Erich - thank you for posting. I know from personal experience that once I learned how to read the stats at Clickbank and used My Marketplace I was able to find some "gems" to promote.
For me the I like to promote Clickbank products that have a high gravity - showing that the product sells, and a high $ Earned/Sale.
For the $Earned/sale I look at the payout the product offers and the closer the $ Earned/sale is to the payout I know it has a low return rate. For example if a product commission payout s $23.50 and the $ earned/sale is $23.15 I know the return rates are lower than a $23.50 commission product witha $ Earned/sale of $19.23.
Combining these two stats I have found a couple of products that sell well and have low returns - which has increased my profits. I recomend everyone do the same and spend time to learn how to read the Clickbank stats.
Chris
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Post by shing on Sept 15, 2006 11:36:59 GMT -5
Thank you, Erich and Chris. I had no idea! It's just nice to check in and see almost $600 for a two week period! But it's tapered off a bit this week. I'm not sure if it's because I changed the colors on my site, or what. But overall, I have definitely seen a steady increase each two week period since I began advertising. It was just odd to see a 0.00 balance yesterday. My biggest day was the day after Labor Day. I'm anxious to go to the Marketplace and learn more.
Shawna
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Post by tree on Sept 15, 2006 12:11:42 GMT -5
 Wow Shawna. Great job. You truly are an inspiration.
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Post by Sandi Moses on Sept 15, 2006 12:16:22 GMT -5
Erich - thank you for posting. I know from personal experience that once I learned how to read the stats at Clickbank and used My Marketplace I was able to find some "gems" to promote. For me the I like to promote Clickbank products that have a high gravity - showing that the product sells, and a high $ Earned/Sale. For the $Earned/sale I look at the payout the product offers and the closer the $ Earned/sale is to the payout I know it has a low return rate. For example if a product commission payout s $23.50 and the $ earned/sale is $23.15 I know the return rates are lower than a $23.50 commission product witha $ Earned/sale of $19.23. Combining these two stats I have found a couple of products that sell well and have low returns - which has increased my profits. I recomend everyone do the same and spend time to learn how to read the Clickbank stats. Chris  Until then you will have to make use of the info Erich provided above and glean out your own best possibilities.
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Post by futureadvantage on Sept 15, 2006 12:36:32 GMT -5
Shawna,
your sales may have been down some dew to the changes in products like Dataproz, type-at-home, etc.
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Post by bosko40 on Sept 16, 2006 12:49:54 GMT -5
Thanks Erich for posting this. This will really help many here.
Everyone heed what Chris has said. What he does is what I do also and it DOES WORK.
Shawna,
I like what I see with your site changes so far. Good color schemes. PM me when you are done and I will re-evaluate it for you.
See ya,
adam
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Post by garovich on Sept 17, 2006 8:28:59 GMT -5
Sandi, The numbers are located under each individual product in the marketplace itself. I don't beleive any sales need to be made in order to view these. I remember seeing these when I was just starting out and only kind of having an idea of what they were for. Gary I just read the "My Marketplace" FAQ. It appears to be a Catch 22 for newbies because they don't provide it as a tool to select the best products until you are already successfully promoting products. Until then you will have to make use of the info Erich provided above and glean out your own best possibilities.
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Post by shing on Sept 17, 2006 12:56:48 GMT -5
I just have a quick question - in Click Bank, when you visit your reports and stats, are any of you contacting those that have signed up for offers on your page? If so, what do you do? Also, Adam viewed my site from another browser and it isn't centered. But in mine, it is, so I didn't know until he told me. I guess it's what the others are talking about on the forum - Nvu and vdeck have a difficult time communicating. Any suggestions? I really should just break down and learn html. But I do like Nvu. These were really two questions that should have gone to different areas. But I'm not sure where.  Shawna |
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Post by futureadvantage on Sept 17, 2006 21:08:54 GMT -5
I have not contacted anyone, but have considered it. I guess I might look at their purchase and try to determine what similar products are available. One could craft a letter that says thanks and these are some products that are similar.
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Post by shing on Sept 18, 2006 0:24:42 GMT -5
Thank you, Michael. I guess I worry about it being considered spam, since they have not requested a work at home opp. However, if we start it out like:
"Hello, a few weeks ago, you signed up for (such and such) from my work at home directory. Just wondering how you are doing with the opportunity. Are you understanding what needs to be done? Are you accomplishing your goals? I'm always happy to offer suggestions and help. Wishing you the best in your home business goals.
[our name and contact info]"
What do you think?
Shawna
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Post by troyzone on Sept 18, 2006 1:27:13 GMT -5
Hi Shawna and Michael, When I read your first posts (before reading Shawna's last post directly above this one) about emailing people who have purchased Clickbank products from you, the first thing that popped into my mind as well is that this *may* be considered spam since the individuals in question didn't contact you directly for anything and (presumably) didn't sign up for your newsletter. I understand the desire to take advantage of every resource available to you including the Clickbank stats that provide the purchasers' email addresses, but I'm not certain as to whether you can rightfully contact these people unless you're working for SurveyScout or whatever offer they signed up for. Maybe it's fine to do so.....I'd be interested in hearing other people's feedback on this as well.....but my first impression is that it may be a gray area. Also, if they start asking questions about the particular opportunity or product that they signed up for then you'd better be armed with some in-depth knowledge of the opp or product  Granted, we should all know what we're selling anyway of course, but if you don't want to get yourself in over your head then it might be best to steer clear of contacting people in this manner. Some general suggestions such as completing profiles as accurately as possible, signing up for ALL of the survey companies, etc. to get the most out of their purchases would likely be fine though. If in doubt, you might even ask Clickbank if it is acceptable to contact people that made purchases via your affiliate links by utilizing the email addresses displayed in your stats. If it's not though then I wonder why they would provide such info in the first place. Also, Adam viewed my site from another browser and it isn't centered. But in mine, it is, so I didn't know until he told me. I guess it's what the others are talking about on the forum - Nvu and vdeck have a difficult time communicating. Any suggestions? I really should just break down and learn html. But I do like Nvu. These were really two questions that should have gone to different areas. But I'm not sure where. Shawna Shawna, Regarding your centering problem with your web site, the best place to post html-related questions such as this would be in the Designing & Developing Website board, as people who know html would be more likely to see it there and be able to help you out. I looked at your site and it's off to the left for me too. I'm using IE 6. I don't consider myself expert with html by any means, however I did look at your code and think I know what is causing your centering issue. It appears that there is some extraneous code causing the problem. I've copied and pasted part of your source code below where the body section starts....just delete the part I highlighted in red and it should then center. </head>
<body style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 204); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" leftmargin="0" topmargin="5" link="#0000ee" alink="#ee0000" marginheight="5" marginwidth="0" vlink="#551a8b">
<!-- MAIN TABLE - The table that holds everything to keep it all neat -->
<hr><!-- END OF LEFT AD COLUMN --><!-- CENTER MAIN CONTENT COLUMN -->
<table class="maintable" align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" height="100%" width="775">
</table>
<div style="text-align: center;"></div>
<table style="width: 775px; height: 100%; text-align: left; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" class="maintable" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> Basically, you appear to have a table that is immediately closed off, then a div that is immediately closed off, then another table that actually does encompass your entire page. You don't need the first two items. However, the first and third are almost the same except the unused table centers your site and the one that is actually encompassing your site is set to left align rather than center, so the easiest thing to do is just delete the sections I highlighted in red then it should be centered without any other changes or editing of properties. You have a lot of big blank spaces in your source code, but that doesn't really do any harm other than make your html file a bit bigger. For what it's worth, I really do think that everyone involved in this venture should learn some basic html, it's almost essential for tweaking our sites and solving problems such as this. There is nothing wrong with using an editor such as NVU to do the main part of your work, but editors such as this are just a tool and you need to keep in mind their limitations. They often create extraneous code, don't remove all code for deleted items, make code that works fine with one browser but needs tweaked to work with other browsers, or cause other such problems, and this is when you need to go back to basics and dig in the source code yourself and tweak it. I've never taken any sort of html courses or really sat down and said I was going to learn html and then spent a week studying it or anything like that....basically all I did was work away in my WYSIWYG editor (Frontpage in my case, but NVU is somewhat similar) and flip back and forth between Normal view and the Source code view a lot, watching the Source code and making changes in it whenever I saw fit. These days, I find myself working in the Source view as much as the Normal view. By flipping between the two views, I could see what my changes in the Normal view were doing in the source code. Any time I didn't understand something or wanted to find out how to do something, I'd look it up online using sites like www.htmlgoodies.com or www.webmonkey.com or any number of other similar such sites that a Google search turned up. So basically, I learned bit by bit as I went along. Tables were especially foreign and confusing to me at first, but I spent some time reading tutorials about them early on and I'm pretty comfortable with them now. The basics should be learned first though...what the <head> and <body> sections are for, how tags in general are opened and closed (such as <table> and </table>), how to start a new paragraph (<p>), set fonts and so forth. Once you get the basics down then the rest just builds on that. Hope this solves your centering problem, it did for me when I tried it on a temporary copy on my own computer. Troy |
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Post by futureadvantage on Sept 18, 2006 2:41:07 GMT -5
Troy you do make a good point one would need to be careful as to not running into problems with spam issues. To use this type mailout one would need to be fairly knowledgeable of what products compliment or build on other products.
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Post by shing on Sept 18, 2006 13:49:58 GMT -5
Hi Troy...
It's no wonder your karma is now at 40!! (I just added another.) Thanks for all the help you give here.
I guess I, too am learning a little more html than I realize just by doing. My daughter and I were able to get it centered even before I came to the forum this morning! I can't explain the problem yet, but when I have some extra time, I'm going to make another landing page using html. (When will that be??!)
I also decided that would be considered spam.
Thanks again!
Shawna
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Post by troyzone on Sept 18, 2006 19:21:24 GMT -5
Thanks Shawna, I'm glad I could help. I see you edited the last table tag mentioned above so that it was centering the table instead of left aligning it (or perhaps NVU did that for you). That works too. I was going to suggest that initially, but when I noticed the unused table and div sections above it, I opted for suggesting the other solution. The method you used is fine for fixing the centering issue, the only advantage of the other method is that it removes some unnecessary code from your web page. I agree that probably the best way to learn html is by doing, and you probably do know more html by this point than you realize. What I suggest you do once you feel more comfortable digging through the source code is to go through it with a fine-tooth comb and take out any extraneous code like the sections mentioned above that NVU may have left behind. These essentially unused sections of code only serve to make your file larger than it needs to be. A few bits of extra code won't matter much, but if there is a lot of such code then its presence could increase the download time of your web page considerably. It's best to keep your files (whether they are html files or images) as small as possible. This keeps your site optimized for quicker loading, plus sometimes the extra code can confuse some browsers and keep your site from displaying properly. Just something to consider once you feel more html-savvy Troy |
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Post by shirleyw on May 27, 2007 0:26:59 GMT -5
Hi Everyone,
I have joined CB about a month ago and haven't had any results. I don't have a website of my own and have just been putting my ADs through classifieds and that still didn't make me money. I've had people look at my ads but still no profit. What am I doing wrong??? I'm starting to believe that I can't make any money with CB. I have very little pocket money to start my own website and I am starting to get frustrated. ANYONE PLEASE HELP ME WITH ANY SUGGESTION OR HINT OR COMMENT. JUST ANYTHING.HELP!!!!!!
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Post by jmt on Jun 23, 2007 8:03:26 GMT -5
New Marketplace Feature? 1) Title of Product (edited)... Is Here. Monster 75% Pay-out. Up-sell Converting At Over 50%. You Know The Rest. $/sale: $47.50 | Future $: - | Total $/sale: $47.50 | %/sale: 75.0% | %refd: 80.0% | grav: 500.47 view pitch page | create hoplink What is | Future $: - | ? Anyone? I couldn't find anything on clcikbank Joanne Edit: Never Mind I found it  Future $: Average total rebill revenue earned by the affiliate due to sales from a site. Generally this equates to the average sum of all rebills. |
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Post by vanessa1015 on Jun 23, 2007 14:18:47 GMT -5
I am trying to find out how to get started with click bank, and am having some trouble...
First,
I am new to 3PP, in my first phase, so I am not selling products as an affiliate, am I right to sign up affiliates under me through this resource? Can I use a TOPS as a product? If so what amount do I give for product price? I must have lost this info somewhere along the way.
Second,
What to use as a Thank You Page. I thought since this resource has been used here before someone would have an established thank you...hopefully!
Take Care,
Vanessa W.
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Post by Sandi Moses on Jun 23, 2007 17:08:53 GMT -5
I am trying to find out how to get started with click bank, and am having some trouble... First, I am new to 3PP, in my first phase, so I am not selling products as an affiliate, am I right to sign up affiliates under me through this resource? Can I use a TOPS as a product? If so what amount do I give for product price? I must have lost this info somewhere along the way. Second, What to use as a Thank You Page. I thought since this resource has been used here before someone would have an established thank you...hopefully! Take Care, Vanessa W.
Actually you will be selling products as an affiliate. Vendors make their own products for sale using Clickbank, and give affiliates (us) a portion of the profit. It is a win/win situation because they multiply by many times the number of people marketing their products and so are able to make a lot more sales and therefore money than they could ever do by themselves. We win because we are rewarded financially for the sales we help make.
When you sign up with Clickbank, you choose a nickname. Each vendor also has a nickname or ID.
When you feature a Clickbank product on your site the link will take the following format
<a href="http://YourNickname.VendorID.hop.clickbank.net"> Product Name</a>
We feature Clickbank products that might be of interest to people looking to work from home, such as Survey Scout, LegitOnlineJobs, HomeJobStop, and others. Different products convert better for some TOPS members, and other products do well for other TOPS members. You will discover which ones do best for you.
You don't need a Thank-You page. That is for vendors.
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Post by talfighel on Jun 24, 2007 13:21:52 GMT -5
Hi Vanessa,
Here is how ClickBank explains it:
ClickBank affiliates are Internet marketers who earn commissions by promoting ClickBank products. Once you sign up as an affiliate, your internet marketing skills can lead to additional income.
Here are just a few of the features and benefits over 100,000 affiliates just can't stop talking about:
Simple, fast, and free account setup.
Over 10,000 products to promote.
Commissions as high as 75%.
High-converting products drive high ROI on your marketing programs.
Reliable and accurate tracking gives you credit for your successful marketing strategies.
We manage the publisher relationships, so you always get paid what you are owed.
Since our first day of business in 1998, we've never missed a payment.
ClickBank makes it easy to become a successful affiliate. Opening an account and gaining access to our marketplace will provide opportunities you can't afford to miss. Just follow these simple steps and start earning right away:
Tal
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Post by Tamberlee on Apr 2, 2012 19:07:00 GMT -5
Clickbank as of 4/2/12 will have you sign an agreement on the recent changes they have made. You will see this notice when you sign into Clickbank.
I highly recommend reading all of these new updates. There is a lot of them to read.
Vendor and Products Requirements Policy
Digital Millennium Copyright Act ("DMCA") and Trademark Policy
Return and Cancellation Policy
Accounting Policy
Privacy Policy
Security Policy
Network Abuse Policy
Legal Notice
Joint Venture Program Guidelines
I just recently started back with clickbank for the 2nd time in 3 years. The first time I did not do so well. After reading some of the post here in the forum, dated back to 2006, there was some concerns about clickbank.
So Welcome 2012 with perhaps trying Clickbank again or signing up for the first time.
These past two weeks I have seen some really good sales that I had made. Not a lot like some of you have done, but all the same it is sales.
I will monitor this for another 2 weeks or so. At that time I will give you an update on some of the potiential money maker products they have listed.
I hope others that read this will also share your experience in Clickbank.
To your success
Tamberlee
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Post by Erich on Apr 4, 2012 7:48:57 GMT -5
Tamberlee
Thanks for your information and I'm sure many will be interested in the results of your trial.
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Post by benadad on Apr 20, 2012 12:24:32 GMT -5
I quite enjoy all the threads here on Clickbank but it seems as if making money from it is not as easy one may think initially. Does any one know how quickly it is possible for one to make something meaningful out of it. I will appreciate to get feed back from those of you that make steady income from it and teach members of the forum to easy and unfailing way out.
Ade
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Post by Erich on Apr 21, 2012 8:25:58 GMT -5
I quite enjoy all the threads here on Clickbank but it seems as if making money from it is not as easy one may think initially. Does any one know how quickly it is possible for one to make something meaningful out of it. I will appreciate to get feed back from those of you that make steady income from it and teach members of the forum to easy and unfailing way out. Ade Hi There Welcome to our forum. The bottom line in selling Clickbank products and services is to have good professional looking website with the same theme as what you promoting. You also must have a steady flow of traffic looking for what your offering. You can check out our marketing and website design categories to learn how to do these things... |
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Post by Erich on Oct 6, 2012 10:01:56 GMT -5
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Wow 
Until then you will have to make use of the info Erich provided above and glean out your own best possibilities.
Sandi 
Granted, we should all know what we're selling anyway of course, but if you don't want to get yourself in over your head then it might be best to steer clear of contacting people in this manner. Some general suggestions such as completing profiles as accurately as possible, signing up for ALL of the survey companies, etc. to get the most out of their purchases would likely be fine though.
