Affiliate programs

[nick]

Anyone know what are the good affilaite programs? I know this question has been asked 1000 of times but the thing is that some affilaite programs are performing well in the start and then slowly the conversion decreases. :crying: I have a friend who is making $400 per day from an arcade that I gave him in gift for free :crying: While I was not even able to make a single dollar in one week from it. He is just pumping out the money from it. At first I thought he is making it up. When I saw the stats for his earning they were real and it was something for generating online leads. He was getting paid 1.5 dollars to 65 dollars per lead. Looking for ideas and sources where this kind of programs can be found. I have a gut feeling it is clickbank, but then don't know.

 

[domainstations]

Clickbank has been dominating affiliate marketing program nowadays as a lot of people are hungry for information. They get an answer from downloadable info products like ebooks in which clickbank is pooling a lot of authors with their products.

Yeah Nick,I think its Clickbank, with your mailing list I believe that you can get that much money on the net.

 

[nielsencl]

Sign up for their free newsletter at: www.cpatipline.com

They let you know about a lot of different programs and some can be really nice if you can qualify for them. I'm in one now trying to get leads for Postage Meters. They are fussy about the sites they allow in and it took about 3 weeks to finally get in the program, but leads pay about $85 each. No, I have not gotten any yet, but I'm going to keep trying...!!!

I also have another program that I am in that is something like a cross between Adsense and Chitika (they suck). I'd like to get some signups so PM me and I can tell you where to find the link. If you don't want to sign up under me that's easy to avoid if you want. This program puts little ebay auction ads on your site and you can tell them what kind of ads to run via keywords. This is best for sites that are realted to products and selling, but it could work on any site. I made $29 last month for just part of the month, and I am up to $40 already this month, but I do have the ads running on about 15 sites with about 2,000 impressions a day.

 

[nick]

I will signup on the given link. Plus also send me the link please I will like to join under you. Why to join just like that if my joining of network is going to give you some benefits then I will join under you.

 

[Deleted member 30]

I tried most of the affilaite marketing in past. CJ, shareasale, linkshare and buy.at if you ask me i would say CJ was not good at all. shareasale was a bit better but then you have to achieve Full status by recieving your first payment and only then you can participate in Pay per click programs. Linkshare does have some very good merchants.

 

[nick]

Yes I did recieved some brochures and packages from buy.at they told me that I will be given a good commision on the sales that I refer. Like A hotel booking, someone purchasing a New PC. Airline tickets and all the stuff. Alas I didn't got much time to market it and at that time even my energy level in affiliate marketing was getting lower and lower along with my earnings.

I have already tried CJ on some women products but then it also didn't shined so bright as it should. Efforts wasted in there.

I am also a member of Shareasale from 3 years and have got $22 in it. Yes just $22 from it.

Remains linkshare. That I haven't tried as they ask too much of tax and other stuff right at the signup page.

 

[pranavbhat]

$400 per day.............are you kidding me!!

Why dont u ask your friend the affiliate program that he is using??

I think some research is to be done on the affiliate programs so that we can earn better from them!!
I am a affiliate at cj but havent earned a single penny from them!!

 

[nielsencl]

Affiliate programs are easy, but only if you have time and the proper methods. There are many people making a lot of money with them, but I have as much or more of a failure as most of you.

I am doing better with one program now that I have a web site provided by the company. I think the main thing is a site that doesn't try to offer too many different things and have tons of affiliate links all over the place.

$400 is not bad (rolls eyes!!!) and I can beleive it if the arcade site is getting lots of traffic and he has the right program. Azoogle Ads might be the program he is in. I tried them and I hate them, but my sites were not right for those kinds of offers.


The other thing is that you need to be in a program that doesn't suck. If you send traffic and the site or offer is not very good it won't work either.

 

[Chocokriz]

I have a quick question based on the comments on this thread.

Affiliate program would refer to a more direct approach with the advertising where you are paid based on purchases made by leads from your site, right? Would that be different from something like Google AdWords?

I wonder what product they are selling on that arcade site to generate that much revenue for the buyer. That is a lot of money!

 

[nielsencl]

Yes, with Adwords you are paid when someone clicks on an ad. Affiliate programs don't pay you until a purchase or some other action is taken by the person, but they generally pay more per action.

 

[Randall]

Roogle, Affiliate programs are the programs that pay incentive for selling or generating a lead for the company and its products or services.

While Adsense is PPC (Pay per click) so you get paid for visitors who click on the advertising banners provided by google adsense.

 

[Chocokriz]

Whoops, Nameslot! I was the one that asked about the differences between affiliate programs and Google AdWords!

But thank you for clearing it up - now I understand the concept of both advertising programs.

My advice would be to consider the concept of the site and decide whether or not it would warrant the viewers buying products readily available.

 

[Randall]

Oh man. My bad. Yes I think I am still in my sleep. A sleeping admin posting on the forums :wink:

My advice would be to consider the concept of the site and decide whether or not it would warrant the viewers buying products readily available.

Yes some sites do perform well with affiliate programs rather then any PPC program. While some sites only perform well under PPC conditions and the affiliate program earnings are not much on it. It depends on the type of people that are visiting your site. For example if I put bathing soaps ads on the forums here then I know it is not going to convert. :grin:

 

[Chocokriz]

Don't worry about it, Nameslot.  I bet you're getting mixed up because of all of the new users' questions. ;-)

I was taking a look at some affiliates programs for one of my upcoming projects.  I think I found a really useful one! It's the Cooking Affiliates Program!

I will likely adopt this affiliates program when I get a steady amount of traffic on my upcoming project.

Back to the topic at hand, it might be good to consider the target audience when looking for a good affiliates program... my approach was to search for an affiliate which would allow to sell for cooking supplies... but I'm not sure about the larger affiliate program markets.  They might have some specialty items.

 

[Randall]

As per your recent post I assume you are going to start a cooking blog.

There are many ways to monetize it. The one you have already found. If that doesn't works you can try CJ with merchants who are selling cooking utensils and non-stick cookwares, etc. You can even make a script that allows people to register on your site and surf the outer area. The premium area which would contain special recipes can be a Paid one and you can charge $10 - $20 for 1 year membership from each one. Now who wouldn't want to spend $10 for nice and original recipes :wink:

Then just focus on making more and more subscribers for your site. In some months you can even hire chefs to write recipes for you and they will be most happy to give you some recipes for some dollars. :grin:

If we ponder more on this topic I think 50 more ways can be found to extract the money from your site. The thing is make a site and make it nice one. Stick around a little and read some online things. If you need any help while your project is going on, We would be really happy to guide you. [LOL, as if we are Gurus :grin:]

It is just that if something good can be done for you then it would be a pleasure for me. Because I have still not forgotten the Hosting provider who gave me a free hosting to get started. After 2 years his hosting business was going down and I had to jump in and bring him back in the market from the resources that I had.

 

[pranavbhat]

yup....thats what it is all about....we are a community and we have to help each other when someone is going down...
thats what i have always belived....

 

[getaddicted]

hey everyone ,

Im not much into affiliate programs.. But i have just used CJ. an it has worked out somewhat for me...

We are all mostly webmasters. So have you tried HOSTING AFFILIATES... I have always used them. And for single hosting they are paying $100.... I have refered few of my friends for hosting and made a good hefty commission...

As we know so many ppl want websites this days.. And just look out for webhosting affiliates, They really pay well...

Thank you

 

[Chocokriz]

Thanks for the support, everyone!

I am starting a cooking blog and article website. It will list a new recipe daily and give statistics and information about the daily dish. I have several ideas for incorporating advertising into the website thanks to the informative posts here at Nameslot.

I liked the membership idea you mentioned, Nameslot... something to think about in the coming months.

Like I said in earlier posts, I am probably going to start out with some simple pay-per-click advertising to get me started, and then bring out the affiliates programs when the site gets going.

I think that is a general rule that most website developers should follow: start with pay-per-click and move onto affiliates programs if the target audience would likely purchase them. :smile:

 

[DoingItMyway]

My experience is that clickbank has not earned me one cent. Go with CJ

 

[gippy]

Clickbank has been dominating affiliate marketing program nowadays as a lot of people are hungry for information. They get an answer from downloadable info products like ebooks in which clickbank is pooling a lot of authors with their products.