Affiliates Alert review

Review by Barry Stein

by Maayan Marzan

The free Affiliates Alert software allows you to search the ClickBank Market Place for affiliate products and services which you can sell on your website, with your newsletter or market with Google AdWords or other pay-per-click engines.

There is a free version of the software and a Professional version. The Professional version gives you some additional features which I will describe below. The subscription for the Professional version is $9.95 a month.

Below is a screen shot of the control panel for the Affiliates Alert Professional Edition software. The free version has the same control panel.

Number 1 gives you the option to search for various Main Categories within the ClickBank Market Place.

Here are the main categories:

Business to Business

Computing and Internet

Fun & Entertainment

Health & Fitness

Home & Family

Marketing & Ads

Money & Employment

Society & Culture

Sports & Recreation

Wagering

Number 2 gives you the option to search within the Main Categories for Sub Categories. There are too many Sub Categories to list them all here. You will be able to see them when you download the free version of the Affiliates Alert software.

Number 3 gives you the option to list the number of affiliate products you want to be displayed. Your choices are ALL, 10, 20, 30, 40 or 50 affiliate products

Number 4 gives you the option to display affiliate products based upon how long they have been in the database. If you leave the setting at the default of ALL and Days then it will display all the products. You can also use this feature to display just the newer affiliate products.

Number 5 gives you the option to search for affiliate products based upon how much commission they pay.

Number 6 gives you the option to search for affiliate products based upon keywords, which is helpful when you are looking for niche market products.

Number 7 gives you the option to search for affiliate products based upon the merchant's ClickBank ID.

Below is a screen shot of the search I conducted within the Business to Business Main Category using the Sub Category Publishing that pay more than $10.00 commission.

Below is a close-up of the ten affiliate products listed above.

Number 1 shows the rank of the affiliate products using the Main Category: Business to Business and the Sub Category: Publishing.

Number 2 shows the name of the affiliate product.

Number 3 shows the percentage of the sale price of the affiliate product that you earn for a sale.

Number 4 shows the actual commission that the affiliate product pays.

Number 5 shows the Ranking Number change of the affiliate products since the last update. Positive Ranking Numbers show how much an affiliate product has improved since the last update. Negative Ranking Numbers means that a product is moving down in the rankings.

It is easier for a product with a Ranking Number of 44 to move to a Ranking Number of 43 than it is for a product to move from a Ranking Number of 4 to move to a Ranking Number of 3. This is all factored into the software.

Number 6 shows the Momentum Ranking change for the affiliate products since the last update. I don't use the Momentum Numbers as criteria when choosing affiliate products since they can change too quickly.

One example of why a Momentum Number might move higher would be a marketer promoting the affiliate product in his ezine. This might make the Momentum Number move higher because of new sales, but a few days later the Momentum Number would move down again once sales returned to their normal level.

Number 7 gives you the option to print this report shown.

Number 8 gives you the option to get more information and statistics on the affiliate products. I'll show you a screen shot of this below.

Number 9 gives you the option to visit the merchant's website.

Clicking on the info & stat for number eight, Web-Source.net, will bring up the following view below.

In this screen shot you can see the Statistics & Information for the Web-Source.net merchant website.

It has a link to the actual website, a Description of the product, the Product's Price, affiliate commission shown as a percentage, affiliate commission in dollars, ClickBank Nickname for the merchant, the ability to generate your Affiliate Link, the Categories the product is listed under in the ClickBank Market Place, Last Rank and More Information.

By clicking on the Ranking History link for this product for Business to Business you will get the following view below.

By viewing the Ranking History we can see that this product has maintained its present Rank over the last three months. This tells us that it has been a consistent performer.

If the Rank went lower over time it would tell us that sales have increased and it might just be a new Killer Product, meaning that sales for the product is increasing.

The Rank is important because you can find new Killer Products to promote. You can also avoid the affiliate products that have a Rank History that is decreasing, which can some times mean that there may be a problem with the product since sales are declining. Perhaps there are a lot of refunds for the product and because of that many affiliates have stopped marketing it.

For more information on the Affiliates Alert software you should visit the home page at http://AffiliateAlert.com, where you will also be able to find out more about how to use the Ranking History to find profitable affiliate products.