Online Product Review

ClickBank is the very best credit card processing and affiliate marketing system around.

They basically allow just about anyone to sell products and services over the Internet. You do not need a merchant account to accept credit cards online.

ClickBank offer a built-in affiliate marketing system whereby you can recruit new affiliates from their network of 100,000 affiliates.

They also allow you to add up to 10.000 digital products and services offered by other ClickBank merchants to your product line.

If you are a beginner ClickBank is a great place to start your internet career. Many newbie start with ClickBank because they provide all the necessary tools. I saw many Bloggers that use ClickBank to earn money. Blogging is great way to earn with ClickBank, because you
give a recommendation to your visitors.

Personal recommendations are important with all the affiliate sales - but especially with Clickbank as some of their products have a pretty average reputation.

Many of Clickbank's products are e-books and software products - which are broken down into the categories of Business to Business, Computing & Internet Fun & Entertainment, Health & Fitness, Money & Employment, Sports & Recreation, Home & Family, Marketing & Ads, Society & Culture.

As I note below - while the money can be good with Clickbank - you might pay for it with the 'cheap and nasty' feel that many of it's products have. I would strongly recommend that you carefully consider which products you link to and suggest that you (or someone you trust) has personal experience of them before recommending them to readers.

Clickbank Pros

• it is pretty easy to use Clickbank. Once registered you just need to insert your affiliate name into a URL to be activated for the product

• Commissions are very good. Some pay out up to 70% of the value of the product. I've made commissions of up to $ 50 on some sales and know of people who make quite good money from them.

Clickbank Cons

• many of Clickbank's products are quite quite cheap (although expensive) and nasty. You get a lot of get rich quick programs, dodgy e-books etc.. There are some quality products in the mix - but they do not have the best reputation among many people.

• the Clickbank affiliate interface is pretty basic. In comparison to the stats you get from programs like Adsense and Amazon, it's not very helpful.

• there are no inbuilt options for creating links automatically as there are with many other affiliate programs. I've heard of a variety of clickbank tools that can help with this but if you just use their provided interface all you can really create is text links.

Add it all up and you can see why ClickBank is so unique. If you're looking to sell digital product, and do not want to go through all the hassles of getting a merchant account, I highly recommend using ClickBank.