Affiliate Marketing Tips: How to choose right products from clickbank?

I joined clickbank about a couple of years ago. To start with my performance was dismal. First few months went without even a single sell and as a result money. But as time went on I started earning some money. I read some blogs and ebooks to learn some affiliate marketing tips.As I started gaining some experience the things got easier for me.

First thing in affiliate marketing is choosing a right product that you can sell through your blogs and personal pages. First and foremost , the product should be one which is of your reader's interest. For example, if you write about "skin care" then your product should be related to this. Apart from this, there are other tips and techniques to choose right products.This is what I am going to tell you in this post.


Before you start, you should know the meaning of certain terminologies used in clickbank marketplace.This is important because this helps in choosing products. You will not be able to use the stats provided by clickbank unless you know the meaning of terminologies and how to analyze them.Here is a brief definition of some important terminologies.
 $Sales - $sales is the amount that an affiliate will get for each sale. For example, if you sell a product with $sales $20 then $ sales will be 20.

%Sales -This is somewhat related to $ sales. % sales means the share that an affiliate will get once a product is sold through him. For example, a product with price $100 and  % sales 40% mean that affiliates will be paid $40 for each sale made through them.

%Refd - This is the percentage of sales of the product coming from affiliate sales.

 Grav - This stands for "gravity" of the product, or a measure of how many affiliate are promoting it.

 Having understood these basic terminologies of clickbank, let us now jump off  to find some great products to sell.here are some of the points to take note of.

The main criterion in choosing a right clickbank affiliate marketing products is the conversion rate. Conversion rate means how many visitor out of 100 buy the product. For example, if 2 out of every 200 visitors to a sales page buy the product being sold there, then you have a 2% conversion rate.You should choose a product with high conversion rates to earn some income from it.

But  a good question that arises here is,how do you find out what the conversion rate is?Take a look at following paragraphs where I have solved this problem for you.

1) Look at the product "Gravity". -
Every clickbank affiliate marketing product listed in the market place is marked by a "gravity" number, which is displayed at the far right, under the product title. This number represents how well the clickbank product is converting for affiliate, as it is a measure of how many sales have been referred by other clickbank affiliates. The higher the gravity number, the better the product is converting.

Shoot for gravity roughly between 50 to 100. This is one of the important clickbank affiliate marketing tips, anything lower than 50 or so probably isn't popular enough to sell well and anything that is higher than 100 is probably so popular that the market is already saturated.

2) Look  at the %referred. -
If in a case you see that 84% of sales for this clickbank affiliate marketing product have been referred by affiliates then It means that major of sales for this product has been referred by affiliates but not the owner themselves.This is a good sign.

3) Look for additional factors that favor sales-
   How good is the merchants sales copy? This is important for clickbank affiliate marketing the product as the sales pages are meant to SELL. You need to make sure it will attract  attention of a buyer.Pick a good clickbank affiliate marketing product from the marketplace which is highly likely to sell well for you, assuming its a great fit for your target market niche.


4) Look at the $sales-
In general more $ sales means more money per sale. You should choose a product that gives you more money per sale. This is particularly true if you are advertising your sales pages to get more buyers of the product.

These are some of the tips to choose right products for you to sell.
But sells are not made entirely because of right product choice. Choosing a right product is of course important but more important is the way you promote and sell that product. I will come up with some additional tips to make your affiliate marketing campaign successful in some of the next posts. You can subscribe or return to my blog to catch those points.
Best of luck and see you again !!!!

How adsense works?How to increase Adsense income ?

I am sure most of you are able to answer this question.But let me answer this question for someone who don’t know the answer of this question.


“When a site/blog visitor sees an appealing adsense ad and clicks it you earn a share of money that advertiser pay google once ads are clicked.”


I think most of you will agree with me.( because there is no point to disagree in this !!)

OK, lets go one step further.Now I will extract some of the words from the answer I have given above.



1) “site/blog visitor”-

This is important as it is visitor who will click the ads and more visitors mean more clicks and more adsense income. In internet language we call no. of visitors as web traffic or blog traffic. So , more traffic means more income in general.


2) “sees”-

A visitor will click an ad only when he/she is able to see it first. If you have placed ad at some corner where visitor seldom scroll then that ad will not be seen, will not be clicked and you don’ get single penny. So , you have to place ads at a place where people are focussed.Placing an ad is referred to as ad placement.




3) “appealing ad”-

A visitor will click an ad only when he/she finds it appealing. An appealing ad is one which is on a subject or topic in which visitor is interested. In general if you have a post on dogs then your ads should also be about dogs. The idea is a visitor is on your page because he is interested in dogs , so , an ad on dogs will be appealing for him. In technical terms we call it ad relevance.



4) “Clicks”-

You will be paid only when some visitor clicks on your ad.So, if you are able to increase clicks you will increase your income.In technical terms we call it click through rates ( CTR).



5) “money that advertiser pay ”-

All ads don’t fetch you equal amount of money .Some ads pay you more and some less. Actually what you will be paid for a click depends on keywords you have used on your blog. So, if you are targeting a keyword for which bid amount is more you will get more money per click.The cost that advertiser pays for a keyword is called Cost per click (CPC).



So, now I think you have a fair idea about adsense and how to increase adsense income.To sum up the things-

1) Build traffic to your site.
2) Place the adsense ads properly.
3) Get relevant ads
4) Increase click through rates.
5) Target keywords for which average CPC is high.

You have to take care of all these five points in order to make handsome income from adsense. You won’t see results if you omit even one of the above mentioned point.


I will come up with details of each point in my upcoming posts so, check back soon or just subscribe to my feeds.

Things to do when you run out of ideas to blog

As a blogger you might have faced the problem of not getting ideas to blog on every now and then. This is specially true if you are around for more than an year or your blog covers a small niche.Although the definitive solution to this problem would be to plan your blogging beforehand and to choose a bigger niche on which you can blog indefinitely but if you get this problem even after planning and good niche choice then this blog entry is written for you.


First of all I must say that don't panic when you have nothing to write or talk about on your blog.This is quite normal phenomenon and occurs with every single blogger sometime during their blogging career.


OK now I will talk about the tips any blogger should follow if he/ she runout of ideas to write a blogpost.


Read your own blogposts you have written months before -

There are very few bloggers who look back to their own posts. Think yourself , how many times you have read your own posts published months back ? Although this will take sometime but this can be fruitful to extract ideas to blog. Once you read out your own post , you get some points you have missed or some updates about the post.

The missed points or updates you notice can be the theme of one of your blog articles.Apart from getting ideas to blog , reading your own post gives you some opportunity to internally link your newer posts with the older ones.


Take a look into the forums and see what questions people are asking -

Forums are very very useful for bloggers as you are able to know what questions are irking people and if you are able to answer them through your blog your work will be appreciated.Just make a list of questions people have asked in forums.

After making a list of questions , see what questions has been answered through one of the blogposts and what questions has not been answered. The questions which has not been answered becomes one of the potential blogpost of your blog.


Read out other blogs of your niche

Many a times I have found ideas for blogging through one fo the posts of other bloggers of same niche as mine. The moment you get something interesting you may write the point on your blog with your own opinion the subject. Here I must say that you must copy the ideas not the word and opinion of other blogger. Be yourself while expressing thoughts on a particular subject.


Have a look at quality article directories

Sometimes I do take a look at some article directories and while browsing through the articles actually I discover some udeas to blog on.This works quite fine for me and I think it will also work for you. The plus point of article directories is that you get multiple articles on multiple subjects which are written by many authors all with their own style.

I would like to emphasize here that don't copy articles from article directories instead write yourself it is good not only for search engine optimization but also for long term success as a blogger.



In short , ideas are there scattered all over place no matter from where you tke it from but always think of ideas or subjects in which people are interested and be original yourself.I would once again repeat one of the things i have said earlier that planning and niche choice will help you not getting burnt out but once you do runout of topics you must take a look around yourself, I am sure something will click in to your mind.

10 super tips to write better content on blogs

As a blogger much of your success depends upon quality of your content. You will be appreciated if you are writing original and quality content otherwise you will fail miserably.This is the reason why content is called king.In this post I will talk about ten powerful tips to generate awesome content on your blog.

I will not preach about making things scannable or making your significant point bold or other stuff that is widely discoursed in every blogging guide.Instead I will talk of some slap-up points to make your content better.


1) Recognize your audience-

Just ask yourself, Who your audience will be? Or, for whom you are writing? Whether you are writing for newbies or intermediates or savvys .Plan your content once you answer this question.


2) Use colourful verbs in place of tired overused verbs-

Verbs are like condiments. Just like condiments add flavour to food, verbs flavour the content.And once you flavour your content blog visitors will relish it.Let us take an example- Take a look at following sentences-

"The whole SEO is such complex that sometimes I get confused."

"I am perplexed due to intricate nature of SEO."

Both these sentences mean the same thing but in later case the verb 'confused' (no doubt an overused verb) has been replaced by more attractive verb 'perplexed'. Also, see the word 'complex' has been replaced by more appealing word 'intricate'.

Where can I get colourful verbs from?

Now this is a question which needs to be answered. Well just download a thesaurus from internet.They are available for free , just google it and get it. Thesauruses contain list of synonyms.What you have to do is to identify overused verbs and replace them with vibrant synonymous verbs.


3) Use active voice rather than passive voice-

The benefits of using active voice is that subject comes first and some worthless words are chopped off.Take an example-

"John killed Michael" (active voice)

"Michael was killed by john" (passive voice)

In this example, the subject 'John' comes first and and useless words 'was' and 'by' were cut-off by using active voice.


4) Write 'you' centred content and not 'I' centred-

Although it is not possible to use 'you' focussed content everytime but use it most of the times in your content.You focussed content makes your discussion personal with your blog readers.

Example of 'I' focused sentence- "I will provide you with latest information about blogging on this blog."

Example of 'you' focused sentence- "You will get latest information about blogging on this blog."
Now just judge which statement looks better to you.


5) Don't write useless sentences and words-

I have seen some bloggers talking about their pets, or girlfriend or running nose on their blog.Don't do this.These things doesn't matters to your visitors.Visitors come to any blog in search of information and not to know about your running nose.

Your every sentence should either be an information or an elaboration of an information.


6) Don't preach, demonstrate-

Preaching is like muttering a confounding theory without proofs of whether it will work or not.While demonstration is backed by some solid facts ,citations or images. Evidencing your facts makes you much trustworthy.So, make your points backed by some solid facts, citations and images from trustworthy sources.


7) Be personal while interacting through your content-

Write as if you are talking to your readers.Think how would you have talked with your friend on a particular topic? Use the same sentences as you have used while conversation with your friend.(often with some refinement)


8) Break longer sentences into two-

Longer sentences look clumsy and are often hard to understand. So, break longer sentences into two easily digestible sentences.


9) Be simple and clear-

If you close your eyes, can you visualize the idea behind every sentence? Is every sentence as tangible and concrete as possible? If you can’t wrap your arms around your message, neither can your readers. Rework sentences to ensure they’re clear and concrete.

If you’re struggling to explain a technical or abstract concept, grab a pencil and sketch it. This exercise forces you to simplify and distill your idea and may spark helpful ways to present the concept to your readers.


10) Be a ruthless editor-

Writers often fall in love with their own words.But be ruthless with your words.Cut words, sentences and even an entire paragraph if they are not needed or otherwise not in good shape.Sometimes you may have to delete your entire post and start afresh. But if you are not satisfied with your own writing your readers will not be either.So, just cut cut and cut untill you are satisfied.

Check for grammatical and spelling mistakes. Nothing hurts you more than a bunch of grammatical and spelling mistakes.So, be in the hunt of mistakes while editing your content.



Writing better content for blogs is a time consuming process and needs a lot of motivation. But once you are able to keep spirits up you can be a better writer of blogs. Earlier it takes much time to write a content but as you go on writing the process will become a bit easier and less time taking.

How to increase Adsense income ?

Without any introduction and undue delay lets come to the point. I will start this post with a small question.


How adsense works?

I am sure most of you are able to answer this question.But let me answer this question for someone who don’t know the answer of this question.


“When a site/blog visitor sees an appealing adsense ad and clicks it you earn a share of money that advertiser pay google once ads are clicked.”


I think most of you will agree with me.( because there is no point to disagree in this !!)

OK, lets go one step further.Now I will extract some of the words from the answer I have given above.



1) “site/blog visitor”-

This is important as it is visitor who will click the ads and more visitors mean more clicks and more adsense income. In internet language we call no. of visitors as web traffic or blog traffic. So , more traffic means more income in general.


2) “sees”-

A visitor will click an ad only when he/she is able to see it first. If you have placed ad at some corner where visitor seldom scroll then that ad will not be seen, will not be clicked and you don’ get single penny. So , you have to place ads at a place where people are focussed.Placing an ad is referred to as ad placement.




3) “appealing ad”-

A visitor will click an ad only when he/she finds it appealing. An appealing ad is one which is on a subject or topic in which visitor is interested. In general if you have a post on dogs then your ads should also be about dogs. The idea is a visitor is on your page because he is interested in dogs , so , an ad on dogs will be appealing for him. In technical terms we call it ad relevance.



4) “Clicks”-

You will be paid only when some visitor clicks on your ad.So, if you are able to increase clicks you will increase your income.In technical terms we call it click through rates ( CTR).



5) “money that advertiser pay ”-

All ads don’t fetch you equal amount of money .Some ads pay you more and some less. Actually what you will be paid for a click depends on keywords you have used on your blog. So, if you are targeting a keyword for which bid amount is more you will get more money per click.The cost that advertiser pays for a keyword is called Cost per click (CPC).



So, now I think you have a fair idea about adsense and how to increase adsense income.To sum up the things-

1) Build traffic to your site.
2) Place the adsense ads properly.
3) Get relevant ads
4) Increase click through rates.
5) Target keywords for which average CPC is high.

You have to take care of all these five points in order to make handsome income from adsense. You won’t see results if you omit even one of the above mentioned point.


I will come up with details of each point in my upcoming posts so, check back soon or just subscribe to my feeds.

How to get more hits on your blog through revisitors

Uptill now I have covered the strategies to bring in more hits through new visits. In my opinion it is easier to get new visitors but it is quite tough to mke your visitors come back to you unless you have a quality and unique content.

People surf the web to get information and they return to only those sites that provide it quite regularly. Some of the strategies that you can ploy to make your visitors repeat again and again are-

1) Giveaway something free to get your visitors isubscribed to your feeds or newsletter. They might return to your blog once they find some of your items if it souded appealing to them.

2) Organise competitions on your blog on regular basis. Many of the visitoirs like to take part in competitions if you are giving away something exciting to winner. They will come again and again in search of those contests.

3) Write quality content on regular basis. The primary reason why a visitor come to your blog is because he needs some information or answer to some questions. If you are providing the content the visitor demands then he will return time and again to see updates from you. They won't come to your blog unless you are providing solid reason to come back in form of quality content.


Traffic generation and getting more hits on a blog is a time taking process. It is not an overnight process. But once you are doing the things that I just mentioned rightly , Iam sure you would get many many hits on your blog. Referring sites and social media sites are the biggest source of traffic and you should a pay particular attention to them.

What are your traffic generation strategies. I welcome everyone to share their traffic generation tips through comments section.
Over to you !!

Getting more hits on your blog through word of mouth

This is perhaps the most effective way of getting more hits on your blog. No traffic generation strategy can equal the potential of word of mouth spread of your blog. One of the finest way to do this type blog promotion is by placing a 'tell a friend' script at the bottom of each of your posts. Many of your readers might just email your posts to others in their network thus bringing in some new visitors to your blog.

Even better technique to do this is by giving away something in return like, free ebooks and reports in return of referring a friend. That did the trick for some of the bloggers I know although I haven't tried it yet.