Dumb Question On Clickbank As A Product Owner

It doesn't break a rule

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That's wrong: there's no such rule at all.

It's perfectly "legit". It just won't achieve the outcome desired.

The problem is that however many copies you sell through one affiliate account of your own, you're not going to add more than one point to the gravity figure. Gravity doesn't measure the number of sales. It measures the number of affiliates who have made one or more sales.

There are products with single-figure gravities consistently outselling products with three-figure gravities. Some products (especially in the IM/MMO areas) have a gravity over 100 because 100 people who were already ClickBank affiliates have each bought one copy through their own link - it doesn't necessarily mean that any affiliates are actually promoting the product at all. Other products with a gravity less than 5 can steadily be selling many, many thousands of copies.

If you want to know more, here are a few threads which explain "what gravity measures and how it works".

How many Clickbank products per site/list
Gravity High or Lower - Which Sells Best & Why?
Clickbank gravity - is there a sweet-spot here?
Understanding Clickbank Gravity
Clickbank Gravity

On the contrary. As you'll see if you read the threads I've linked to above (and many others like them), the serious pro-affiliates are the ones who tend to prefer low gravity products. The distributors attracted by high gravity figures are the 95% of ClickBank distributors who collectively produce only about 5% of the affiliate-referred sales.

Inflating your product's gravity figure isn't a way to attract serious, pro-affiliates: it may be a way to attract other affiliates who wrongly imagine that high gravity is an indication that the product's selling well, but they're unlikely to sell much (and you might do that, possibly, even at the expense of putting off some of the "big dogs"!).