Have you ever heard of affiliate marketing? More and more individuals are learning about making a living online with the help of ClickBank, Paydotcom, Commission Junction, and other affiliate marketplaces. In this article I'll be providing an overview of ClickBank as well as an understanding of how to use ClickBank to dominate affiliate marketing.

ClickBank is an affiliate marketplace that brings together product and service manufacturers (publishers) with website owners who wish to sell products and earn a commission. In fact, this is how many affiliate networks function, allowing individuals to find merchandise that is appropriate for their target audience. The reason that ClickBank and other affiliate sites have become so popular is because of their ease of use and the promise of making large commissions. Using ClickBank is like earning a bonus every time you sell someone else's product.

Once you've decided that you want to sell a product online, the task of finding the right partners and resellers can be a significant challenge. That's why ClickBank and other sites have created a marketplace that brings together those with products that need to be sold with eager resellers who want to sell them. Setting up an account with ClickBank is easy requiring a simple registration. If you plan to publish a product and have others sell it for you then you must complete a registration, a promotional page for resellers to point prospective buyers to, and a confirmation page that includes a small snippet of ClickBank specific code, allowing conversions to be tracked properly.

Once you've registered with ClickBank and uploaded the necessary information that describes your product, your product becomes listed in the marketplace section of ClickBank. The next step is for website owners to search out your product and create a hoplink for their website. This allows them to being selling your product immediately.

A hoplink is established by ClickBank for every product sold. This link contains special code, including a resellers ClickBank id. When resellers place this link on their website or blog, it redirects prospective customers to the landing page that a manufacturer has created. When consumers purchase their product, ClickBank registers a sale providing the seller his fee as well as the reseller (affiliate). In essence, each time that a reseller sells a product, he is earning a commission. Some resellers dominate ClickBank, selling hundreds of products daily. They are often called superaffiliates.

If you are looking for products to sell, simply visit the ClickBank marketplace and search by category. You can find which products are being sold by other resellers, their popularity, and gravity. Gravity is a special value that ClickBank places on affiliate products developed by weighting the quantity of sales, frequency, and recentness of latest sale. The exact formula is unknown, but using this value to find hot selling products is essential.

In addition to offering a reseller link for thousands of products for which you can earn a commission, many ClickBank publishers are offering links to valuable selling tools. What is becoming more common where publishers are providing an additional destination for resellers to find advertising banners, buttons, and graphics as well as promotional emails and web copy. This is making affiliate marketing easier than ever.

If you're new to affiliate marketing or are interested in getting started making money online, ClickBank offers a robust marketplace that allows you to easily find products to sell. If you are a publisher or manufacturer of a product or service that you want to sell online, ClickBank is a great way to begin promoting your product and dominating the competition.