Wednesday, November 19, 2008 today
Clickbank as the Stock Market 3:57 PM
I am going to let you in on something. There are a few ways you can pick a topic for a niche blog.
One is to go through your interests and what you want to learn and pick something. Then find some affiliate products that compliment that interest. Then start writing. If you are interested, than it should be easy to come up with content. This is probably the best way. Readers will notice your passion and your stake in what you have to say. You can't go wrong with this route.
Another way is to play affiliate programs like they are the stock market. And I will have to admit, I have done this one too. Commission Junction, Clickbank and various other affiliate programs give you stats on where the most money is to be made and which products are the most popular.
With Clickbank, you can use sales rank, gravity and referred. Of course other factors may influence your choice such as whether the product has a subscription (subscriptions rule) or the actual commission you get on the product (not wasting your time promoting a product).
Sales rank on Clickbank is a aggregate number. It is calculate based on the other sales numbers as Clickbank. It's as mysterious to Clickbank affiliates as PageRank is to SEO's. They don't know the exact algorithm, but they can guess. And for the most part, what you need to look for in the sales rank is the movement. Did a product just jump from #50 to #30 in a couple of days? Did a product come out of nowhere and hit the top 5 in it's category? Or did it's popularity go down? What caused this: hype or organic growth?
Gravity indicates how many affiliates are actively promoting the product. The number does not tell you exactly how many affiliates are promoting the product. It also is a calculated number giving present sales more weight than past sales. But it does give you and indication of the competition. And when you line it up against rank, you begin to notice discrepancies. If you sort Clickbank products by the rank and notice that the gravity dips for a product or two, those may be products you want to check out. That means the sales are in line with the rank, but there happens to be a few less affiliates promoting that product.
Referred gives you an exact number. This is the percentage of sales that come from affiliates. Most are high in Clickbank, in the 90% range. If you find a higher ranking product where the referred number is low, like 60% that means that the bulk of the sales resulting in that high rank is coming directly from a vendor. And this might indicate to you that you can take a little bit of that pie. Another tip. When this happens, it can also indicate pretty good branding on the vendor's part (i.e. the product has a distinctive name and the vendor is most likely ranking #1 for that name).
Sometimes tools help with this process. There are a few tools that will help:
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One is to go through your interests and what you want to learn and pick something. Then find some affiliate products that compliment that interest. Then start writing. If you are interested, than it should be easy to come up with content. This is probably the best way. Readers will notice your passion and your stake in what you have to say. You can't go wrong with this route.
Another way is to play affiliate programs like they are the stock market. And I will have to admit, I have done this one too. Commission Junction, Clickbank and various other affiliate programs give you stats on where the most money is to be made and which products are the most popular.
With Clickbank, you can use sales rank, gravity and referred. Of course other factors may influence your choice such as whether the product has a subscription (subscriptions rule) or the actual commission you get on the product (not wasting your time promoting a product).
Sales rank on Clickbank is a aggregate number. It is calculate based on the other sales numbers as Clickbank. It's as mysterious to Clickbank affiliates as PageRank is to SEO's. They don't know the exact algorithm, but they can guess. And for the most part, what you need to look for in the sales rank is the movement. Did a product just jump from #50 to #30 in a couple of days? Did a product come out of nowhere and hit the top 5 in it's category? Or did it's popularity go down? What caused this: hype or organic growth?
Gravity indicates how many affiliates are actively promoting the product. The number does not tell you exactly how many affiliates are promoting the product. It also is a calculated number giving present sales more weight than past sales. But it does give you and indication of the competition. And when you line it up against rank, you begin to notice discrepancies. If you sort Clickbank products by the rank and notice that the gravity dips for a product or two, those may be products you want to check out. That means the sales are in line with the rank, but there happens to be a few less affiliates promoting that product.
Referred gives you an exact number. This is the percentage of sales that come from affiliates. Most are high in Clickbank, in the 90% range. If you find a higher ranking product where the referred number is low, like 60% that means that the bulk of the sales resulting in that high rank is coming directly from a vendor. And this might indicate to you that you can take a little bit of that pie. Another tip. When this happens, it can also indicate pretty good branding on the vendor's part (i.e. the product has a distinctive name and the vendor is most likely ranking #1 for that name).
Sometimes tools help with this process. There are a few tools that will help:
@henchmanmike No, I haven't seen that one. Just bookmarked it. Thanks!
@henchmanmike Only one brand so far, Weslock. With 700 skus to go.
@henchmanmike I had the cname wrong for the www. version in the DNS records. Fixed now.
New magento site about ready to go and yes it is using the default theme: http://www.locksanddeadbolt...
I like the wizard type interface of the new SEO software I have worked with lately. Why software? For the monotonous parts of the job.
Emerging technologies could boost supplies of essential plant-based drugs to combat and ultimately help eradicate malaria, says a report.
You need to be realistic about what can happen to your property and what options you may have to protect your assets. SHORT READ
Rogue security products are one of the common ways used by cyber criminals who try to gain an extra buck for a living. They are trial applications that warn users of inexistent infections on their computers. In order to “remove” all the detected malware, the user is encouraged to buy the product.
Do you ever feel like you have a hundred things to get done and not enough time to do half of them? How do we break out of this cycle helplessness caused by an overwhelming number of priorities waiting to get done? How can we better manage and execute the activities that matter to us, such that we feel empowered and in control?
The font on my Friendfeed widget is still yelling at me. I swear I changed nothing.
The Dell White Flashing Cursor of Death 6:44 AM
My wife's Inspiron 1525 has always been a bit possessed. It looks nice on the outside and does the job, but it is a bit clunky. We couldn't beat the price though.
Tonight, it just wouldn't turn. It would start up. The white timer bar would go across the bottom of the screen. But then only a white flashing cursor on the black screen would show. Okay.
Using the beat with a hammer method, I tried rebooting it a few more times. About 7 or 8 times. Then I tried the Media Direct button. What the hell. If it worked, then at least something did. And it did. I could get to pictures and videos also. So the hard drive was still in there somewhere.
So I searched for "Dell flashing cursor". And came up with this, which didn't apply. Though before I went back and read it more thoroughly, I found out how to create a bootable DOS USB Stick and how to flash the BIOS from it. And here is where to find Dell drivers.
Hey, it needed an updated BIOS anyway. And now it has one. I even took picture, which I am not posting to further prove my idiocy. It also still had the flashing cursor.
I happen to run into this 160 GB hard drive/BIOS issue here which I just stepped back from. Did not even want to read it.
So I ran into this post over a Yahoo Answers that gave me a "Duh" moment. And when you do insert the disk to reinstall the Dell's operating system, realize that there also is a repair function. I found this after backing out of reinstalling Windows. I thought it would be best to ask my wife about files she may need. I could get them off now.
And I saw the repair link, which worked like a charm and took less than five minutes, with no lost files files or other issues. In the words of Napoleon Dynamite, "Idiot!"
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Tuesday, November 18, 2008 yesterday
The font on the Friendfeed widget on my blog is suddenly enormous. Not sure why. Don't care right now. Going to bed. Tired. Nite all.
New blog post: The Dell White Flashing Cursor of Death http://tinyurl.com/55rch9
@igorthetroll We were all using the same router. It was weird.
Are people serious when they think manual spam comments will get through? All the lights are on in my blog. They should know I'm there.
Death by orange peel, death from obsession for eternal youth and many more bizarre deaths in history!
If you are looking for a gift to send your blogging buddies, you should consider the Blog Blazers, which brings you blogging secrets from 40 top bloggers including Seth Godin, Yaro Starak, and Aaron Wall.
I can see many many iphone users pissed off! But I think Flash 10 will be available for iPhone sooner then you think.
Lets be honest, how many Google applications support Linux? Almost none! Even though their vision is “open source” (my a$$). What about Google Chat Video? Brand new Google feature, which is really great but not for Mac or Linux users! AGAIN!
Now I honestly feel that this is ridiculous, not the becoming a man part but massacuring dolphins to do so? That’s like killing bunnies to prove your manhood.
Barack Obama is the man to whom America has handed the reins of a faltering economy, including a crumbling real estate market.
Actually sounds pretty interesting. Users of RjDj summarize their experiences with this new type of music as addictive and also compare the listening experience to the effects achieved from drugs.
Most of the security issues in 1994 were triggered by the increased popularity of removable media, especially the more and more affordable CD-ROMs. Such storage devices acted as a vector of infection, as computer users burnt not only important data, but also infected files.
Daily Digests in order of level of information relevance to me: 1.SocialMedian, 2.Twine and 3.Friendfeed (i.e quiet to noisy).
Yesterday we changed the IP of a site. I could see it in 1 hour. No one else could here. Same internet connection. How does that work?
Monday, November 17, 2008 2 days ago
Tarpipe is another publishing automation tool which works like Yahoo pipes: http://tarpipe.com/
PixelPipe submits to a lot of picture, video and social sites: http://pixelpipe.com/
The Top 42 Content Marketing Blogs list was designed to organize and feature the best blogs on the internet that discuss some aspect of content marketing. This page is a must bookmark for anybody interested in creating content to attract and retain customers.
I have been a very quiet busy little beaver today. Not at all normal. Focus. Launching a new store this week.
@chanesteiner I thought so. I used to type faster in school, but bad habits have built up.
In this post, I'll walk through examples of some of the more valuable and directly applicable methods to leverage finances for link growth while dodging Google's webspam edicts.
Is taking a touch typing class a worthwhile time investment? Current WPM: 30-40. It would just be for a speed increase.
Ever heard of "erotic acid"? How about "traumatic acid"? As serious as their profession is, chemists do have a rather bizarre sense of humor. They have given some real molecules (mixtures or compounds) names that are quite unique, amusing, unusual and ridiculous.
This post reviews two books "The Secrets to Self Confidence" - which is found to be dense, ponderous and quite useless; The other "The Ultimate Guide To Health and Happiness" is recommended. It combines practical exercises with a work book style that allow any reader to carry out and make changes
Sunday, November 16, 2008 3 days ago
Clickbank's New YouTube Channel 1:03 AM
Clickbank has a new channel on YouTube. Currently there is only a screencast of the sign up process, but there should be more to come.
Saturday, November 15, 2008 4 days ago
Clickbank’s New YouTube Channel http://ff.im/-3kXP
Yes! I am getting a review copy of Blog Blazers: http://www.blogblazers.com/ Can't wait to get it in the mail.
Friday, November 14, 2008 5 days ago
Twitter works in mysterious ways. Like an web-based collective unconscious. Or a 140 character sigil.
Trying to take things slow today. No scanning allowed. A habit takes 21 days to break.