Picking the right product to promote is the key to affiliate marketing success. There are thousands of affiliate marketing products out around, but only a few can make you money. Some products are terrible and don’t work as promised. Another product might be fantastic, but its landing page leaves something to desired so it is not making any sales. To succeed with affiliate marketing, you need to find a product that’s proven to sell well. Why sell something that nobody wants to buy?

To find our product, we are going to look at the Clickbank network. While there are many excellent affiliate networks out there, Clickbank is one of the best for those starting out. They have a large selection of digital products to sell, they always send your checks on time, and it is easy to get accepted into the network. Unlike other networks that require you to apply to promote a certain offer, Clickbank lets you promote all offers on their network immediately.

The first thing to do when deciding on a product to promote, is to decide a niche. The best way to do this is to brainstorm on a piece of paper 5-10 topics you think you would be interested in. When creating your site around a product, you will be spending a lot of time with it, so make sure the topics you write down aren’t something that will bore you to death.

Once you have your topics, go login to your Clickbank account and visit the Marketplace section. Clickbank has its products separated into categories, so choose an appropriate category and do a search for each of the topics you have written down earlier. In the search results, you will see a list of affiliate products that best match your search term. Below each product description, you will see a list of different metrics.

The key thing to look at, is the product’s gravity score. Gravity is a Clickbank formula that tells you how many recent sales affiliates have been making with this product. If many people are making sales with this product then this says you can probably do well selling this product as well. Usually I try and pick a product with a gravity score over 35. The other thing to look at is the dollars per sale. If you are going to use pay per click marketing to promote your product, then pick a payout greater than $30 per sale. By choosing a high enough payout, you can cover any advertising expenses and make a good profit.

Using the two criteria mentioned above, jot down the products that meet these criteria. Now pick the product that you would be most interested in researching about and selling. You already can tell that other affiliates are doing well with these products, so the key here is picking the product that will keep your interest so you can promote it successfully. This is the first step to becoming a successful affiliate marketer.

Tags: Affiliate Marketing, Clickbank, cpa, cpa networks, Internet Marketing, online marketing, pay per click, Ppc, search engine optimization, seo

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