ClickBank Marketplace Scripts
♫ Wednesday, October 13th, 2010ClickBank is an online retailer that sells a variety of different products and services delivered via the Internet. These include downloads such as eBooks (books in electronic form), software, and a wide range of other products and services. The beauty of their system is that it can easily be integrated with a web site, and therefore provides a simple way for people who have such products to sell (“vendors”) to get them directly online and make them available to the public. So far, many thousands of individuals and companies have taken advantage of this opportunity and are selling their own Internet products this way.
Another side of ClickBank however is that even if you do not have your own product to sell, you may be able to make money from their service. This is because you can put special affiliate links to ClickBank vendors on your web site, and, if a user follows one of these links and subsequently buys the corresponding product from ClickBank, you will receive a commission. The amount of commission on each product varies, but it can be up to 75% of the net price of the product – the net price being defined as the price less taxes and less ClickBank’s transaction fees.
As well as linking to individual ClickBank products, another option that you might want to consider is putting a copy of all or part of the ClickBank marketplace on your web site. The marketplace is a listing of products sold through ClickBank (containing more than 9,000 unique listings as of January 2010), and if you place a copy of the listings on your own site, each product listing could be hyper-linked using your affiliate link, and be a potential commission earner for you.
Once you have the data on your site, depending on the exact capabilities of the script that you choose, you may be able to easily add listings to pages, generate ads automatically based on keywords, or even allow your visitors to search ClickBank products without leaving your site.
