ClickBank Referred
As was said in our previous post Gravity is the most important ClickBank factor. But other factors may improve your understanding of the product as well.
In our priority list referred is on the second place after gravity, because it shows a level of affiliates’ involvement. And in combination with gravity may give you a sense about competition.
ClickBank Definition: %Referred is a fraction of publisher’s total sales that are referred by affiliates.
You should know:
- rising referred means that affiliates are jumping on this product and actively promoting it;
- decreasing referred means that affiliates are leaving this product (advice: check one more time if it’s a good product to promote or you should stay away from it).
High levels of referred (> 80) mean there is a huge competition.
Extra-small levels (Referred < 25) mean:
- this product has low quality or it’s hard to promote;
- or maybe it’s new and there is still low level of competition.
And one more thing you should now. Some publishers are working in such way: they periodically create new products and they ask their subscribers to promote new ones on their release date. You may see it after release: gravity has extra-high value and referred is also huge (even more than 90% instantly). After this pattern, gravity stagnates at that high level and quite often starts to decrease, because promotion activity is mostly stopped. If you are searching for money, it’s a nice opportunity to jump on these products (however it’s risky) almost on their release. At least you may subscribe to publisher’s newsletter and wait until he/she will release new products.
But! (It’s important) Many of such publishers are giving away poor products… So, you should check them before you’ll recommend these products to people.
UPD: Also you may find powerful publishers by using referred in combination with gravity. For example: set gravity >= 50 and referred <= 50%. You’ll find vendors whose products are selling by many affiliates (at least 50) but they are selling more copies than all affiliates together by themselves.
This is another post in our “How to find the best ClickBank products to promote?” series. Stay tuned, we’ll cover earnings factors in our next blog post.
