It’s well known, it’s popular and it’s claiming to have paid it’s affiliates a sum close to 1.5 billion dollars, a substantial amount by anyones reckoning. But how easy is it to make money using this simple market place for affiliates?

Well hopefully we’ll soon find out. I’ve personally never used ClickBank, I’ve heard great things about it from smaller affiliates and terrible things from bigger affiliates. There’s plenty of pitfalls with ClickBank, the most notorious being the great refund issue. Incase you don’t know, CB deals with electronic products (mainly eBooks, sometimes software etc) and the catch is that with 99% of products, customers can demand a refund (and I’ve been told they surely do!).

Despite this, googling for “ClickBank” on image search will give you a TON of pictures of peoples accounts (like the one above, minus the slanty effect) full of cash, profiting from CB.

To see what CB is really like and how easy it is for the average joe to profit I’ll be using it over the next week or two to try and profit from a niche that I’ll reveal if all goes well. I’m not going hardcore, I’m just going to whip up a little sales site and try run some pure SEO traffic to it and see if I can get any conversions. I’ll keep you all updated every now and then to let you know how it’s going, if all goes well I’ll reveal everything about the campaign here so hopefully you can learn something and go away and earn yourself some cash.

Dan Walker – Researching for the masses.