ClickBank is one of the largest distributors of digital products; they handle online payments and manage the network of affiliates that promote products that are offered by more than 10,000 vendors who use ClickBank to sell their products. ClickBank does not own the products; instead, ClickBank allows the vendors to use the ClickBank affiliate network to sell their products.
ClickBank affiliates are people who are making money by selling products listed in ClickBank marketplace and earning commissions for each sale. They are also making money as resellers - they get paid when they refer other affiliates and vendors to ClickBank network. Becoming a ClickBank affiliate is easy and does not cost money. Also, joining ClickBank takes a couple of minutes. All you need to do is to fill out a form and wait for the confirmation email to arrive to your mail box. What is noteworthy is that you do not have to be a resident of US, Canada, or EU, ClickBank basically accepts people from all countries as affiliates. You can find the clickbank affiliate sign up form here.
You do not need anything special to start making money as a ClickBank affiliate. There is absolutely no need to purchase any software or tutorials. All information is readily availiable on the ClickBank web site and on hundreds of the Internet forums such as forums.digitalpoint.com, clickbanksuccessforum.com, and many others. Moreover, I'd say - DO NOT BUY any of those "make milions overnight without lifting a finger" tutorials as they are all BS.
Also, you do not have to learn advanced web technologies. The basic knowledge of HTML and CSS or an HTML editor like Microsoft Front Page or Dreamweaver is enough to create affiliate (or sometimes called landing) pages.
What you would need is a Web hosting. The good news is that Web hosting is NOT expensive. I'd recommend you to use dreamhost.com - I've been with them for a number of years before I moved my sites to a dedicated server. They charge you around 7 dollars a month and give you plenty of storage space and bandwidth for your web sites.
ClickBank pays generous commissions when a product is sold though your affiliate link (hop link). Every time a product is sold htrough your link, you are paid anywhere from 5% to 75% of the product price. Since some products cost up to 200$, you could actually make 150$ per sale. Of course, the majority of the products are priced in the range of 40$ to 100$ and pay 50% in commissions. Still, making 20$ to 50$ per sale is quite good.
ClickBank pays its affiliates twice a month. This means that once you become a clickbank affiliate and learn how to sell products, you will be receiving nice amounts of money in your mail twice a month. Afterall, who would not want to receive a check like this?The ClickBank Marketplace database is updated DAILY. We download the updated ClickBank Maketplace feed file and convert it into a database format the moment it becomes availiable on ClickBank.com - There is absolutely NO delay in making data available and you are getting the Latest Available Data taken directly from ClickBank Marketplace XML feeds.
A: Every ClickBank affiliate and vendor has a nickname. The nickname
is used by ClickBank to track the sales. The format of a hoplink is:
http://AFFILIATE.VENDOR.hop.clickbank.net
Where AFFILIATE is the nickname (ID) of an affiliate and VENDOR is the nickname (ID) of a vendor.
To get the performance history for a particular vendor, you need to take the VENDOR nickname, enter it into the "Enter the Vendor ID" textbox, and click the "Get Performance Trends" button.
If you do not know the product ID, then you can use either Browse ClickBank Marketplace or Search ClickBank Marketplace pages to find the product that interests you.
This date shows if the product is still listed in the Marketplace. If the last three Marketplace XML feeds do not have the vendor listed, then the "Last Seen in the Marketplace" date will be displayed in RED color, indicating that there might be some kind of a problem with the vendor. ClickBank policy states that there must be at least one sale during any given month for a vendor to be listed in the Marketplace.
The graphs represent the change of values over time. There are at least seven graphs displayed for each vendor:
The first six graphs are for the popularity, gravity, earned per sale, referred, percent per sale, and commission trends for the values taken from the main category.
The rest of the graphs are the popularity trends for all subcategories the vendor is listed in. Only the popularity values are calculated on a per category basis. All other values are the same across all categories the vendor is listed in.
You can earn extra commission by referring additional product vendors to ClickBank. At this time, we do not have a referral program for referring new affiliates.
When you refer a vendor who activates their account you earn 22% of the $49.95 activation charge. Additionally, you earn 5% of ClickBank's typical markup of each sale that your recruited vendor makes for one year. Please note that commissions for referring product vendors to ClickBank are not considered sales activity (earnings) for the purposes of determining a dormant account.
ClickBank's typical markup on every sale is $1 + 7.5% of the sale price, so you earn about $0.09 to $0.99 on every sale. See the referral commissions chart below:
$10 sale = $0.09 commission
$20 sale = $0.13 commission
$30 sale = $0.16 commission
$40 sale = $0.20 commission
$50 sale = $0.24 commission
$100 sale = $0.42 commission
$150 sale = $0.61 commission
$200 sale = $0.80 commission
$250 sale = $0.99 commission
Here are the steps to get started using the ClickBank Referral Program:
Referred vendors are tracked when they create an account after clicking on your Referral HopLink. Referral HopLinks should be in the following format: http://AFFILIATE.reseller.hop.clickbank.net Here it is in HTML: <a href="http://AFFILIATE.reseller.hop.clickbank.net" target="_blank">CLICK HERE</a> To make it work:
The 22% of our activation charge ($9.99) that you earn when a referred vendor signs up will appear under transaction type "bons-0001" in the transaction detail. Your 5% of our markup for all sales made by that vendor for a full year appear as transaction type "bons-0001" in the transaction detail.