What is Your Favorite Affiliate Program? | Bloggers Lair | Yakezie Forums

Post edited 2:55 pm – February 23, 2012 by KyleAAA

moneysmarts said:

Agreed on Flexoffers, they can be sporadic on paying and the reporting doesn't always seem to jive with my own.. CJ has been much more reliable – and even when the payouts are lower with CJ, i tend to go with them because more sales seem to be reported.

Agreed. I didn't want to mention that directly, but there have been *ahem* complaints in the past regarding Flexoffers' reporting. I've heard from multiple bloggers that they suspect Flexoffers to be skimming sales off the top. I have no hard evidence of this actually happening, but I have noticed improbable discrepancies in the past. For example, I have promoted an offer through CJ and then switched over to Flexoffers because they offered a slightly higher commission. Exact same landing page, exact same post, exact same link url (since I cloak aff links), exact same anything. AS SOON AS I made the switch, conversions dropped in half. Clicks stayed pretty consistent, but conversions plummeted. Suspicious? I'm not the only one who has noticed things like that. Then again, it could just be a result of their bad reporting. And I still use them for some campaigns, so it's not like it's big enough to get me to drop them or anything. But for all the reasons above, I somewhat strongly prefer to use somebody else.

The Financial Blogger said:

I think the opposite: try promoting products/services you already use. Pushing products you barely know doesn't work very well (unless you are a hell of a marketer!). Think of it as you would refer a product to a friend, you would only do it if you used it and think it's great.

 

just my 2 cents.

I agree. That's going to get you the most conversions, especially if you write a little post or newsletter update about how you love their services and recommend your readers try it out. It makes the ads seem less spammy if you personally endorse them.

Good info guys..

I logged into CJ for the first time the other day..

And I requested a partnership with some of my favorite sites around the web (Mint, Ing)..

Most of the ones that I requested, are now in a pending state, and have been for 4-5 days.

How long does it usually take these sites to "review" your page?

Here's a question, how are you tracking the clicks per link?  I cloak everything through an htaccess redirect.  The urls look clean, but tracking clicks on my end to compare with the affiliate networks numbers are non existence.  Just curious what others are doing.