Where is the data coming from?
Every day ClickBank releases a file called ClickBank Marketplace XML feed. This is huge XML file that contains more than 160,000 records. The Marketplace XML is organized in a hierarchal way, just like folders and files on a hard drive. The top level contains nine main categories. No products can be added to the main categories directly. The main categories are populated by the ClickBank script on the bases of the historical popularity of products. The more popular a product is, the higher in a main category it is listed.
Then there are subcategories. Each ClickBank main category has approximately nine subcategories. When a new product is added to ClickBank Marketplace, it is placed into up to two subcategories and into the special subcategory called "New Products" - all new products are added to this subcategory.
As a result, each product gets listed at least four times in the XML feed. The popularity values are calculated separately for each category whereas gravity, earned per sale, and etc. values are the same across all categories.
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The CBTrends.com Database Now Has 879 Days of Data.
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| Today is: | 10-10-2008 |
| Tracking of ClickBank Products started on: | 15-05-2006 |
| Number of ClickBank main categories: | 9 |
| Number of ClickBank sub-categories: | 94 |
| Number of listed ClickBank products: | 12648 |
| Number of ClickBank product listings (note that products are listed in multiple categories and frequently, the rankings of a product are different in different categories): | 60624 |
| Total Number of Performed Searches to Date: | 816699 |
ClickBank Statistics FAQ:
- What are ClickBank main categories? - ClickBank products are organized by categories. Main categories are the top-level categories.
- What are ClickBank sub categories? - Each ClickBank main category has a number of sub categories. A product is added to one or more sub categories. The main category listing for a product is done on the bases of a product's overall popularity.
- What is Number of listed ClickBank products? - It is a total number of unique products listed in ClickBank Marketplace.
- What is Number of ClickBank product listings? - It is a total number of listings in the ClickBank marketplace. Number of unique products multiplied by the number of categories they are listed in is equal to the total number of listings.
- What is Total number of performed searches? - It is a total number of times ClickBank products statistics was requested and reviewed BY YOU.
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