Clickbank can simply be defined as one of today’s presently most highly trusted digital marketplaces. It’s immense popularity among affiliate marketer’s is an occurrence of being one of the first affiliate marketplaces to ever open up its doors, and while many other networks have followed this idea, Clickbank remains to be the number one popular choice, having over 100,000 vendors, who are promoting and advertising specifically made digital products.
After Clickbanks founding in 1998, it opened an entirely new portal. This portal we call today is called affiliate marketing. Another reason that makes Clickbank’s marketplace so popular is the fact it serves over 200 countries worldwide thus allowing millions of users to join as an active affiliate member. Currently there are close to 150,000 active affiliate marketer’s within Clickbank alone!
One very interesting fact associate with ClickBank is that a sale is made through the ClickBank marketplace once, every few seconds!!!
Setting up a Clickbank account
Thus, it isn’t very surprising that any starting affiliate marketer will have started merely stumbling upon the findings of the Clickbank marketplace, as a result of the marketplace being advertised on just about every online medium possible.
After Clickbanks founding in 1998, it opened an entirely new portal. This portal we call today is called affiliate marketing. Another reason that makes Clickbank’s marketplace so popular is the fact it serves over 200 countries worldwide thus allowing millions of users to join as an active affiliate member. Currently there are close to 150,000 active affiliate marketer’s within Clickbank alone!
One very interesting fact associate with ClickBank is that a sale is made through the ClickBank marketplace once, every few seconds!!!
Setting up a Clickbank account
- Opening a Clickbank account is free and easy as you create a Facebook account.
- First of all, choose "Create account" from the top menu :
- The registration form will display as in the following image, fill it carefully.
- you can see, the Nickname cannot be changed so be careful, it's something like your username and it's also visible for buyers.
- After you confirm your email, you will be redirected to the dashboard, where you track your daily/weekly sales of every product you promote.
- But, we need firstly find a product to promote in the marketplace.
- From the left sidebar, you can choose a specific product category :
- The payee name is basically your full name, it'll be used in financial transactions.
- Finally, you must agree with the client contract in order to submit the form, it's highly recommended to read the contract to be aware of every aspect of being an affiliate marketer at Clickbank.
- You can choose the product category or search for it directly using the right keyword, In addition you can filter results using different parameters.
- Let's take a look at an example product : SEO software (Keyword researcher).
- Gravity : It's a score given by Clickbank for every product. It measures how well a product is sold. It's recommended to focus on products with +30 gravity.
- Average %/sale : This percentage is how much you will earn for each sale. For instance, a product that cost 100$ and the average per sale is 60%, you will earn 60$ each sale.
- To promote this product, click "Promote", a new form will open.
- This is your HopLink, It's a link to to the product's landing page but it's specific to your Clickbank account, whenever someone visit the product's landing page through this link and buy the product, the commission will automatically be added to your balance. Your mission is to deploy it across the internet and to convince buyers to buy it.
Thus, it isn’t very surprising that any starting affiliate marketer will have started merely stumbling upon the findings of the Clickbank marketplace, as a result of the marketplace being advertised on just about every online medium possible.
