I recently went through the process of listing a product in Clickbank and was reminded of a couple things when I read Ros’ recent post.

She told about how she was searching for a product that she knew was being sold on Clickbank but couldn’t find a trace of it.

Well, here’s a couple tips from someone who recently went through the process for the first time.

1. The process is more manual than I expected. yeah… your first product listing has to be reviewed before you can sell using Clickbank as your merchant account - even if you didn’t want to list in the marketplace. That’s ok I guess , but you may not expect the delay, and… it’s not the case on PayDotCom.com
2. Listing in the marketplace so that visitors and affiliates can see or search for your product is not automatic. When you’re contacted with the aproval, the Clickbank rep should ask whether you want to be listed and then you can request to be listed in two categories.
3. While it costs $49 to approve your first product, you can list any further products free of charge (I think the landing pages have to be hosted on the same site unless you’re using a 3rd party tool that helps you circumvent that.)
4. Speaking of tools, there really is a market for addon tools for most major products and services. You would think that Clickbank would own and offer services that make it easy to do things like ensure secure downloads and minimise theft. I decided to go looking for a tool to manage secure downloads of digital products and came across an exceptional tool - Download Guard.