DATAFEED-DRIVEN SERVICES: Marketplace Analysis

CB ENGINE
$9.99 for 3-month Professional Edition subscription. Beginner to Advanced.
Program Includes: full access to all features of the CBEngine website.

Websites powered by database feeds are springing up all over the internet. CB Engine is a good niche implementation of one. Being successful in affiliate marketing doesn't always mean marketing the top-selling products. You've got to compete with every other affiliate who's promoting those products. Sometimes the trick is finding hidden goldmines, and in the ClickBank Marketplace, you have to know how to read between the lines.

CB Engine is an innovative analytical tool which lets subscribers research and track ClickBank Marketplace products — tasks that, granted, you can do for free at ClickBank, but not quickly and not easily. The ClickBank Marketplace listings only reflect the current product ranks. CB Engine warehouses and compares ranking history, updated weekly. This historical data offers insight into a product's movement over time, which can be crucial to affiliates when choosing products to promote.

Features include statistics on ClickBank's 17,000+ products, as well as comparative product reports: Brand New, Re-listed, Removed, Best Gains, Categories, Vendor List, and the CB Insider, which highlights underexposed products that are consistently trending upward. You can even track the weekly performance history of a particular product since its debut. CB Engine's search function lets you find products by experimenting with search variables such as price, age, rank, momentum, change percentage and gravity. You can also save products to a personal Inbox for later analysis. Products can be added, deleted, grouped or exportated.

It would be nice to see the data refreshed more often than once a week, particularly product pricing changes, which are sometimes several days behind the curve. Price change is a significant indicator in itself. That aside, CB Engine is worth the $9.99 3-month subscription price. We wholeheartedly recommend signing up for the free trial, which allows full access for 15 days. Learn more about CB Engine…