| thoughts on affiliate programs |
[May. 15th, 2007|12:13 pm] |
1. Largely, affiliate managers are meaningless to me as an affiliate. Their purpose is recruiting and maintaining affiliates for the merhcant. However, nothing they say or do matters if the conversions suck. Support is nice, though rarely needed.
2. If you can rank for competetive terms, you dont need to know anything. Just get a nice "click here" link and you will get rich.
3. The "secret" or 1% niches, in my experience, are ones where there is no affiliate programs. Private deals are struck.
4. For beginners, even the most competitive areas may have "fringe" traffic where you can pick around the edges. Before selling shower curtain rings, think about whether you can bulld enough traffic in the niches or whether you could get the 2 leads a day in say, finance which pay $130 total.... |
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