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Clickbank Question

by MrNiches
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If gravity is what is used to measure if the product is selling, it also has to mean that it is being promoted by other affiliates. With that in mind, what is considered a good gravity level, and does it weigh any in your decision when you choose a product to promote?
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  • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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    Originally Posted by MrNiches View Post

    If gravity is what is used to measure if the product is selling
    It isn't.

    There isn't a correlation between gravity numbers and sales numbers.

    Originally Posted by MrNiches View Post

    it also has to mean that it is being promoted by other affiliates.
    It doesn't.

    Products can have three-figure gravities without any affiliate selling them to anyone else at all. Many products with gravities around 4 - 5 - 6 are consistently outselling many products with three-figure gravities. This is common.

    I think this thread may help you: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post2495251
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  • Profile picture of the author bulldogzg
    Originally Posted by MrNiches View Post

    If gravity is what is used to measure if the product is selling, it also has to mean that it is being promoted by other affiliates. With that in mind, what is considered a good gravity level, and does it weigh any in your decision when you choose a product to promote?
    Well it depends really, I saw products with extremely high gravity (200+) that were.... bad to say the least. Then I saw products no one promoted, luck for me that were 10 x quality in both sales letter and landing pages.

    A good gravity level would be 50-ish (means that at least 50 different affiliates sold this product successfully) however it absolutely depends on your niche
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    • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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      Originally Posted by bulldogzg View Post

      A good gravity level would be 50-ish (means that at least 50 different affiliates sold this product successfully)
      Sorry, but it just means no such thing at all.

      It might mean that 50 people bought a copy - each through his or her own affiliate link, and nobody ever even tried to promote it at all. That's common.

      Or it might mean that the vendor used a launch service and on the first day, bought 50 copies himself through 50 different hoplinks set up specially for the purpose, so that it started off with a gravity of 50 to attract affiliates gullible enough to imagine that that means something. After which it becomes self-perpetuating, because those affiliates decide to try and promote it, and however hard it is to sell, eventually they'll sell one adding yet another point to the gravity. So the gravity can be "high and rising" over the long term and the number of sales still tiny, and the conversion-rate appallingly low. That's common, too.

      Respectfully, guys, it would make a lot of sense for you either to ignore gravity completely (maybe not such a bad idea?) or to think about what gravity actually measures and what it doesn't measure, rather than just repeating all these factually incorrect comments about it.

      It doesn't measure sales volumes or conversion-rates.

      http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post2495251
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  • Profile picture of the author thetrafficguy
    Gravity, while not directly correlated to sales, is a good indication if others are promoting it successfully.

    Also keep in mind, many product owners will run traffic from 5 different CB accounts in order to raise the gravity so others will promote it too.
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  • Profile picture of the author John Romaine
    Most of my products have a gravity of 3 or less, and Im making sales daily.

    Infact, some of my best converting products, have a gravity less than 1.

    Forget about gravity, and quit listening to armchair experts.
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  • Profile picture of the author jeffyman
    This is so true. Gravity manipulation is so LAME! Teach their own though
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    • Profile picture of the author myob
      Try 0 gravity sometime. Subscribers often love a change from the same old worn out promotions.
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      • Profile picture of the author John Romaine
        Originally Posted by myob View Post

        Try 0 gravity sometime.
        Yeah, lower gravity is cool.

        You get to float around the room
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  • Profile picture of the author edwinms
    i think if you read sales letter and you want to buy it. that is good product..
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  • Profile picture of the author Randall Magwood
    I havent checked the gravity of one of my best selling products, but i get sales from it about every other day. Seems like affiliates will promote a product even when you have a 0 gravity. Hey, gotta start somewhere.
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    • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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      Originally Posted by Randall Magwood View Post

      Seems like affiliates will promote a product even when you have a 0 gravity.

      Serious, professional       affiliates sometimes will, yes. The mass of affiliates (the 90+% who make very few sales indeed and are not earning a living from it) will be put off by tiny gravity figures - but they're no great loss, anyway, from the vendor's perspective.
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    • Profile picture of the author myob
      Originally Posted by Randall Magwood View Post

      Seems like affiliates will promote a product even when you have a 0 gravity.
      Seriously, sometimes I will search the backwaters of Clickbank specifically for 0 gravity products. Quite often, the reasons for low gravity are due to factors which have nothing to do with the quality of the underlying product. The true gems may be overlooked because of something as simple as crappy sales pages. In my experience, relatively very few vendors of even the best-selling products seem to understand marketing. That's why Clickbank has always been a goldmine for affiliates who do.
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      • Profile picture of the author colinaudie
        Gravity on Clickbank is a figure which is supposed to be an aid but it is so manipulated that using it alone to decide what to promote can lead to no sales take other factors into account also dont just use Gravity blindly.
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  • Profile picture of the author jugnu
    Don't follow gravity, if your wesbite is getting traffic then you can sale any product even product gravity is low and if your website is not getting traffic then you can not sale any product even the gravity is 100+
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