Clickbank just changed their format...

You ain't kidding. Bring back the drop down menus.

Are you talking about the changes to the marketplace? They announced that quite a while back, but I haven't noticed when it went into effect.

What I hate about it is that if you search for a specific term in the marketplace (say, money) it brings up a list of products, sorted by relevance to money (or whatever your search term is). If you change the dropdown bar to "sort by popularity" it sorts by popularity everything within that category, not everything within your search term.

Either its a bug they haven't worked out or aren't aware of, or I am a simpleton and haven't figured it out yet. The latter is more than likely...

Don't know about you guys, but I love the new format, is absolutely easier to use than the old one.
Of course, will take some time to get used to it.

Cheers,

I like the new format. I like that is sorts by relevance when you search instead of popularity of gravity. It might actually give other folks a chance to get their products promoted instead of just those that are already popular or those of people who already have huge affiliate bases.

Yikes.

I'm not a fan of this new design. Many con's about this one.

Spicing up the old design, adding better search, etc. would
have been a better choice IMO.

I read ya, Steven.

The font's so minute and in grey, no less!

The focus went to highlight on the commissions
part which I believe, is seriously going to hurt
people who are not going for 75% commissions.

Cause the first thing people see now are the
commission rates... NOT how much they are
getting in cash.

(In other words... 75% of $20 sale loses out
to 50% of $97 sale)

Oh yeah... bring back the 50 results per page!

Asher

I Have had a it of a kip and i wanted this anyway and could not find it, so i will see if i can knock up a simple app that ill download this data.

maybe maybe not, back soon.

Prettier but unreadable.

What a visual mess. Hope they're tracking all data, I can only imagine the 2 second visits...

I like the fact that there are more categories now

The advanced search function is good, but yeah.. having a maximum of 10 products a page is horrible.

Yeah I agree it's definitely prettier, the icons indicating recurring
commission and affiliate tools are also cool.

However, there was a case where the url for affiliate tools
was long and was cut off the screen, and there's no
other way to see it. I checked the sales page and it wasn't
there also.

Maybe things will still improve in the coming days..

well i have a basic download working, just need to plug in all cats and do a final test and the basics will work, its big easy to read and all o one page, it can be tricked up from there but one step at a time with thee things.

I like the advanced search function.

Used to be top of the list when typing in my keyword. Now bottom!!

I thought I got into the wrong place until I check visually that I am in Marketplace. Well I do like the new format better then the old. It is much easier to my eyes than scanning the whole lists.

OK attached is a zipped excel file, you you should be able to unzip it to a folder on your desktop.

a lot of information to download so i have created tabs per category just go to the tab you want at the bottom and select download data

Dependant on your speed this may take some time and there is a counter in the top left.

you will need to enable macros when you open the file and the end page is just a download data page , just leave it site and no need to touch this page

you can select below then line and delete, if you do or are messing around slide the scroll back to the top if you cant see data

if for any reason you wish to stop the download holding the esc key will halt the macro

its a base set up that can download all data but, very basic, from here it can do anything you need it to do so if you have update requests please log them and if i get time i will issue a new version.

cheers

As others have said... It looks "nicer", but that does not necessarily translate into better usability for affiliates.

It will take time to see if it truly ends up being a blessing or a hindrance.

Thanks for the heads up. I didn't know. At first glance, I prefer their old format.

This is just horrible! And what happened with all the high gravity products?? WTF

The new format is a hell of a lot nicer than it used to be. A lot clearer.

I just noticed this yesterday, I don't like it at all. It's difficult to find what you want and it's confusing.

Bring back the old format!

I think it is terrible and agree with Steven that it is so hard to read the important stuff like gravity etc.

Don't like the left nav where you have to keep scrolling down to find categories either. What was wrong with the way it was?

Tony

I cannot say that I like it more...

but it seems to be more Newbie friendly

A rollout of any new format on any platform always causes ruckus and emotional outpour, just like it is in this thread.

Apparently it hits home more to some than others.

It's still the same thing, same company, and will still make you money.

My guess would be just give it time and people will eventually shut up and/or get used to it.

Also, don't forget, typically when any new format is rolled out on a large scale like this, it (usually) always improves with user feedback.

I had mixed feelings about it but now that I think about it I like it better new and here is why:

For an affiliate looking to promote to a specific market it is easier to find products that are more relevant to what they are looking for. I used to spend hours trying to find niche specific products that are in English, that I have not offered to my lists yet, and that are highly relevant to what my lists want.

Another thing that I like about this new format is that when I first checked the new format I was able to spot what appears to be top-notch products with tiny gravity that I never knew existed.

I will be happy to offer those products to my lists. It seems that the product creators who wrote those products have a lot of credibility, credentials and expertise in their respective fields; the only reason they have tiny gravity is because they are not internet marketers, most of them have actual jobs in their respective field of expertise and apparantly they don't know how to artificially inflate gravity and do other tricks to stay on top of the market place, but the quality of the products seems very high.

I think ClickBank had that in mind when they re-designed the format. This will give the small guys a fair chance to promote their products and the competition will be more fair and based on quality and relevancy rather than on who has a better gravity script.

Wow... I was just there 2 days ago and now look!

I think this might be a better format, some beneficial features like Upsells, but it would be nice if we could search for sub-categories like we did before. I don't necessarily want to go wading through 149 pages to find anxiety products in the health category.

Sylvia

Yes, it seems more use friendly.

I havent seen any difference in my account for some reason, no interface change? what exactly did they change anwyays i didnt relaly read up on it.,

I personally like it.

I think its a pretty cool new layout it takes a bit getting used to at first but the marketplace seems to be getting a nice revamp which is well over due. I hope the continue working on the marketplace above anything else as it is hard to really find products for the keyword you type in.

I agree with the older format, but like everything change happens. I to wish they would add more than 10 affiliates, it's a pain for sure.:confused:

I hate the fact that now half of my products ( heard this from clients, too )
don't actually fit nicely into any one of the new categories.

Wish we could make our own categories!

Much better than the old one if you ask me

Shows you if a product has backend products and stuff below
the product etc... Has more categories, and overall, it's much better looking.

I don't like it either.

You can't make out the gravity/stats very clearly.

-- most of us marketers have egos and we check those stats probably everday.. ie. what position we are at.. drooling over gravity.. and so on.. and this competition actually creates buzz and fuels sales big time.

It will take some getting used to :'(

I miss the old layout.. what were they thinking?!

The default search is now by "relevance" which leaves me clueless because more than one term I searched returned a result at the top that had less than 1 gravity and was NOT in English....?

And what's with all the cartoons?

I agree about the adsense being more eye catching.

Well it looks more attractive, and I was able to find a category relevant to my niche. But it was hard to search Clickbank before, and it's still hard to search it now. They need to get more relevant. If I search for a product called "Keys to Raising Good Show Dogs" I don't want every product in the marketplace that has anything to do with "key"... I just want it on dogs.

Hi there

I quite like the new layout of the CB site...... its so much easier to see ALL categories they have, and its easier to see the sub-categories.......

I think it will grow on us..... just like the last time they changed it

Kishor

the old system looked "old" and crapppy i'm glad they have changed it but it will take some getting used to.