How to Become an Affiliate with ClickBank

Posted on January 5th, 2009

ClickBank is a leading affiliate network that hosts thousands of digital products in many different niches. As an affiliate with ClickBank you will receive a commission on every single product you sell, and we’ll cover in detail the different ways to do it on the internet.
ClickBank can be a key to your internet success so make sure you learn the basics well.

Step 1 – Joining ClickBank

Visit ClickBank at www.clickbank.com and press the button which says “Become an
Affiliate – Click Here.”

The next page will tell you some of clickbanks benefits. Scroll down and press on the “Sign Up Now” link to be taken to the appropriate page.

Fill the sign up page which is very straightforward and don’t worry if you don’t have a website yet as it’s not compulsory to start making money with ClickBank.

When done, Clickbank will send you your password to use with your new ClickBank ID in order to be able to sign into your account.

That’s it. You are now ready to search for suitable products in clickbank marketplace

Step 2 – Clickbank Marketplace

Once you logged in with your new username and password, Click on the top marketplace link to get the clickbanks searching form.

Choose the category/sub category that your niche most closely fits into and click “Go”. (You can also include keywords for more targeted search)

Now, simply scroll through the results until you find something that captures your attention.

Step 3 – Choosing a product

ClickBank sorts affiliate products in order of popularity, the most popular products in their database appears first but they also give you some other valuable information.

[$/sale] – Tells you the estimated revenue you can expect to make per sale from that product after refunds and clickbank fees are taken into account.
This number is important because you want to spend your energy on products that can give you substantial profit. We would recommend products that make at least $10 per sale

[%refd] - Shows the percentage of sales made by affiliates. This number is useful as you would be able to tell if vendor makes most of the sales. In our opinion the higher the number, the better it is.

[grav] – This is a representation of the amount of affiliates promoting the product. Its not a 1:1 Relationship and Clickbank doesn’t reveal exactly how they calculate that number but it gives a good indication of competition and conversion.

If you’re satisfied with Clickbank numbers, it is time to review the product you are going to promote by pressing on the pitch page link.

We are looking for a compelling sales message with clear headlines that grab potential buyer’s attention. Make sure there the site is up to date, has a clean design and include some kind of social proof such as Videos, Testimonials or screenshots.

After we have looked at these elements we then want to click on the buy now link to ensure that our affiliate ID is correctly used and that the conversion mechanism works.
Once you’re happy with the product and its website, you simply go back to Clickbank and press the “create hoplink” in order to create your own unique URL to send your potential clients to. This link ensures that you will get your share of the profits once someone buys the product. Clickbank also provides you an HTML code which you can use for putting a clickable link on your website.

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