ClickBank (CB) is a large marketplace that aims to put together vendors and affiliates for those products. As an affiliate you can gain between 30% and 70% of the final sales value of the product. As it can handle up to 20000 products that offer affiliate commissions this could potentially be a large and lucrative market for affiliate marketers. Yet, their whole business model is based on putting marketers in contact with affiliate salespeople.

Now, ClickBank to offer a data feed of their products, which is updated every day. But this feed is all based around affiliate ship rather than marketing the products themselves. Which is a shame, as it could be so much more. Now, it is possible to take this data feed and to create a nascent products directory around it. But offering the feed as it is would be useless as the data would simply drive potential purchasers away. As a purchaser you don't want to know how lucrative a product is to an affiliate, or how good the conversions are. It's all useless and redundant information.

Now, if you have the programming skill and a couple of weeks' time then you can take the data feed, parse it into a database and use the link information to perform screen scrapes of the thousands of site provided to create a description of all the products on offer. None of this is new, in fact, as these the techniques are used as the basis for several ClickBank-based businesses.

The only problem with this methodology is that Screen Scrapes can yield total garbage and once again this can put potential purchasers off. The only way to maintain quality is to actually visit each site and to create the sales text based on what information the site provides. Again, it's all entirely possible and has been done. There is also the opportunity to take a screen shot of the site so that any potential purchaser can see an image to go with the blurb. Now, this process would take a long time. But once the first pass at generating the text is done it's still a question of tracking the changes in each release of the ClickBank database and ensuring that any site based on this is kept up to date.

As you might realize doing this process properly will both take time and will require a fair amount of programming expertise. Yes, you could do it  indeed, I have given you the formula, above, for making your own site based on the CB Mall. But, what if the hard work had already been done for you. What if someone were to offer you access to a ClickBank-based database with all the functionality and work described above and that for free! Would such a person, such a system, be completely mad?

Well, I most certainly hope not. As I've just released my own CB marketplace. For this system all product descriptions and product images are hand crafted. This means a lot of work. But, in the end, a product like this is completely useless unless it's actually used. This is why it was decided to make access tools available to the internet community. Access to the database has been opened up and a variety of search boxes such as the one below are available to all:

This is a fairly simple search box that works in all web pages. To get it to work for you all you need to to do is to replace each instance of 'YourClickBankName' with your actual ClickBank nickname.

Place this search box (or any of the other search boxes you can find in the URL listed in my resource box, below) into your web page and the search results will potentially bring you an additional income. What happens is that 95% of the search results pulled back when someone does a search using one of these search boxes has your nickname in it. This means that 19 out of every 20 results returned will give you money from ClickBank if someone buys a product based on that link. Only 1 in every 20 gives me any money. Even then I'm only taking 40% of any money I earn to help me keep my website running. The remaining 60% goes to supporting my 'Help Stefan Charity' campaign to aid Sierra Lenoian/Liberian refugees displaced to Senegal, West Africa so they can have a better future.

So, the small percentage of potential purchases you may lose is actually going to charity. Basically, what have you got to lose? I've already done all the hard work and all you need to do is grab some code, apply it to your website and... hey, presto... you've got ClickBank products available from your website. You've just monetized your website with an additional income source. Even better just by spreading this code over the internet you're helping a worthwhile charity just because a small percentage of each purchase goes towards that charity.

So, why not help yourself and help charity today by adding a completely free ClickBank search box to your sites right now... You can be lazy and leverage an additional income for yourself off all the hard work done at the CeltNet site right now!