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Over the last year or so, I’ve experimented with a plugin that imports the Clickbank marketplace into another table in WordPress and adds related products to the posts. You can see the result of that work at the bottom of this post. The problem was that I finished to a point that would be functional for me but no for the average WordPress user. So, as of yet, it hasn’t made it to a release version yet.

If you have browsed throught the Clickbank marketplace you may have noticed that there are a few shady products in there, like the download sites. But if you take a look at them, you see an interesting pattern.

I have dealt with Clickbank as an affiliate a long time now. And for a few months, I have been making posts over at a new site, Clickbunk.com. The only posts I make there currently are announcements of new products at Clickbank. And day after day, I have been browsing the products as they come up, watching for patterns, watching for something that may be a new hot product.

From Clickbank:

ClickBank is excited to announce the ClickBank HopAds Builder, a powerful new way for affiliates to promote ClickBank products. The HopAds Builder allows affiliates who own Web sites or blogs to easily create fully customizable ad boxes. This tool allows affiliates to customize both the look and content of ads to match their site.

The HopAds Builder is entirely free to use, and HopAds pay out the same affiliate commissions as Hoplinks created through the Marketplace. HopAds use ad text created by ClickBank publishers to appeal directly to consumers, and all ads are screened by ClickBank for content and quality. To start creating HopAds to display on your site, click here.

I use Adwords to promote affiliate programs. It’s not all I use though. By using SEO first, I get an idea of what will work for advertising and then I attack. Because rank via SEO is harder to keep than rank that I paid for. But rank via SEO is cheaper and gives you an idea of what keywords are valuable to you.

But when you use advertising, you have time and you have credit limits. And your credit limit is your bankroll, stealing a term from poker which I used to be interested in but found the process too slow for making real money and keeping me interested.

CPA is cost per action. If that action is buying a product, then we have to get our potential customers to open their pocketbook. In today’s economic times, this is getting harder and harder. And the competition is fighting for the same customers you are.

When CPA is used, sometimes it is referring to pay per lead programs. No taking out the credit card. Not even getting a free trial that is billed monthly in 30 days, although some can be. Just get the lead and get paid.