The most popular affiliate program is Clickbank. The products they offer are mostly digital products. You can access the site at Clickbank.com. All you have to do is just sign up for an account, it’s free. Once you have joined the site just go to “Marketplace” and start searching for products you may want to promote.

You will find a “List of Categories” to choose from so just take your time and look around to see what interests you the most.

Clickbank is a pretty simple site to use but I’m going to share with you what some of this information really means. For the purpose of this example, I have chosen the “Home & Family” category and selected the first product on this first page.

The name of this website is“Woodworking4Home.com”. To find out what this website promotes, just click on the name of their website and it will take you to their site. It looks like this site teaches you how to so woodworking.

If you decide to promote this product, the next step would be to create your own link. To do that you would need to click on their website and again, you will be taken to their site. Go to the very bottom of the page and click on “Affiliates”. You will be taken to their affiliate site. When it asks for your nickname you would use the nickname you created when you signed up for the account. Input your nickname plus the other information they requested and hit submit. You will then have access to your special link for promoting this particular product.

Now here comes the most important part to deciding if this site will make you any money. Notice what is written in the gray section above named “Stats”. I’m going to break it down for you.

$/sale:

This is how much you get paid per sale. This is a pretty good profit because every time someone purchases this product from you, you make $32.43.

%/sale:

This is how much percentage you get from each sale. Every time someone purchases this product from you, you get 75.0% of the purchase price and the website owner receives 25%.

$/refd:

This is how much of the owners sales are from other affiliates like you. In this case, 90.0% of all the owner’s sales come from other people selling the product for him/her.

Grav:

This shows you the lowest number of affiliates the owner has. This tells us that the owner has at least 121 people selling the product.

These numbers are important and reveal a lot of information. The most important is that you are making $32 each time someone purchases this product from you. This also tells us that 121% of the sales come from other people, which means the owner at least has 121 people selling this product as well. People are making money selling this product along with the owner because he/she is bringing in 25% of the sales. This sounds like a pretty decent site to try.

There are thousands more just like this in the Clickbank marketplace. Take your time and look around.

I do hope this information was helpful in understanding a little more about Clickbank.