How to Find Profitable ClickBank Affiliate Programs

Thousands of website owners dream of profits from affiliate marketing. Affiliate marketing offers endless opportunities to anyone with a computer, a flare for selling, and a few dollars to start an income-generating home business that will drive them down the road to financial security. The Internet's biggest and most popular resource for affiliate marketers is Clickbank, the web hub that enables anyone to pick up digital products and sell them for a hefty commission. The thing is, there are thousands of products in the Clickbank Marketplace, over 10,000, in fact. How do you determine which products will bring you the most profits?

The first thing to take in mind is that Clickbank generates objective estimates of potential profitability. Clickbank can tell you how well a product is likely to do regardless of how it is written, presented, or shipped. All of these factors are just numbers that tell you whether a product fills an immediate need. Which products fill immediate needs? How about an ebook on how to train your dog? Make money online? A digital guide on how make up after you break up or hit it big playing lotto? The products that sell on Clickbank are products that offer a credible answer to a pressing question, products that give the buyer relief right now.

The second thing to consider is whether the Publisher presents the product in an attractive and unique way. The idea is to present a clear and compelling list of all the features that make the buyer want to click Purchase Now and enter a credit card number. The problem is, too often Publishers list features of their products that nobody really cares about. They might forget spellcheck or use bad grammar. Even if you do a terrific job of preselling the product, if the landing page is a mess, customers will click away without a second thought.

The third thing to consider is whether other affiliates have been able to turn a profit on the book. Clickbank provides a set of tools to help you decide which products will work for you. For instance, the gravity score will tell you how many affiliates have sold at least one copy of a product in the last six weeks. If the gravity score is high, there is so much interest in the product that different approaches from different affiliate marketers still work. That means your page is more likely to work right away. Clickbank will also tell you the average earnings per sale made by these affiliates. If gravity is low and the percentage sold by affiliates is high, on the other hand, you can walk away knowing overall sales are probably pretty low.

You are the ultimate best judge of which products will generate the most profits for you. Invest your presale talents in products you would buy yourself. Focus on products of obvious merit with great sales copy. Eliminating poorly written products and lazy publishers will give you a list of high-potential product and bump your chances of success higher.

Graham McKenzie is the content Syndication Manager at CBSuccessReport.com which provides the only Advanced ClickBank Affiliate & Vendor Guide of its kind.