How to Know How Much Sales a Clickbank Vendor Has?

Thanks Mike. I used that to do a little math, and while it's not possible to determine exactly how many sales a vendor has, it can give you an idea of how many affiliates have made at least one sale. Actually it can give you a range.

From the link

Any vendor's gravity is a sum of scores of distinct affiliates who have sold this vendor's products in the last 12 weeks
An affiliate's score can be:
"1": if he/she sold at least one copy of the vendor's product yesterday
"0,96": if this affiliate's last sale was the day before yesterday
3 days ago: 0,96^2 = 0,9216
4 days ago: 0,96^3 = 0,884736
n days ago: 0,96^(n-1)

To get the minimum number of affiliates who made a sale, that is they all made a sale yesterday, just divide the gravity by 1. If you have a gravity of 5 there are 5 affiliates who's last sale was yesterday.

To get the maximum possible number of affiliates who made a sale, you'll assume the last sale was 12 weeks ago. Assuming 7 day weeks (not 90 days) then you get 84 days minus 1. 0.96^83 equal approximately 0.034. Divide your gravity of 5 by this and you get 148.

So somewhere between 5 and 148 affiliates made at least one sale in the last 12 weeks.

Mathematically, gravity is not really a helpful number. It's not really helpful in working out how well something is selling.

What occured to me is that a product with high gravity is probably something to avoid.

All high gravity really tells you is that there are an awful lot of people selling a product, not that they are making lots of sales. It's more of an indicator of the competition you'll face when you try and sell a product. Just think, a gravity of 300 means that there are potentially up to 8884 other people selling the product.

That's probably why Alexa has a lot more success when selling (good) low gravity products. There's simply less competition.

This.

Ron, your impression - above - of what ClickBank Gravity figures signify isn't at all accurate.

There isn't a correlation between gravity numbers and sales numbers, nor between gravity numbers and conversion-rates, nor necessarily even between gravity numbers and the number of affiliates promoting the product.

With many IM-related and MMO-related products, for example, every time an affiliate buys one copy through his own hoplink, for his own use ("it only happens all the time"!) that adds another point on the product's gravity. It doesn't mean that any affiliates are promoting it at all.

There are many products with single-figure gravities steadily outselling products with much higher gravities.

These posts/threads give an overview of "how gravity actually works" ...

Gravity High or Lower - Which Sells Best & Why?

Clickbank gravity - is there a sweet-spot here?

Understanding Clickbank Gravity

Clickbank Gravity

http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post8677507

I hope this all comes across in the helpful way it was intended, Ron.

Like many people earning our full-time livings here mostly as ClickBank affiliates, the extreme irony inherent in seeing the words "The higher the better" ( ) applied to ClickBank gravities, when our best-selling, best-converting products are (for good and valid reasons) typically single-figure-gravity ones, and our long experience of the many and varied drawbacks of trying to promote very high-gravity products, invariably predicate some sort of well-evidenced, explanatory reply! Absolutely no impoliteness intended, but "the higher the better", for gravity, was the impression of ClickBank affiliate promotion with which I originally started out, myself, and was the reason I earned nothing for so many long months! As I've explained at the end of the first of the 5 posts linked to, above, at the time all I really had to do, to start making a living, was to understand how deeply misguided that perception was and act accordingly! .


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