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Originally Posted by signupdamnit
I used to promote almost exclusively fetish programs like yours. I did very well. In the last three years it's hard to justify the time. Conversions are worse. CTR is worse. It's harder for affiliates to get organic traffic. That all adds up to around 1/3 the income of before from the raw hits to my site to the surfer signing up on your site. Not to mention the attitude in the industry is increasingly anti-affiliate (just read this topic for proof) so why should someone gamble with their future on pushing adult paysites?
We've all heard the claims before many times. But usually when we go to promote the site the end conversions are nowhere near what the owner claims. We do not get reimbursed for our time. But the owner profits because we all know the tracking is very shitty and no one has bothered to improve it because "Hey, fuck those affiliates!"
If you really do that well then maybe consider an alternative system where you will pay per click or guarantee revenue to affiliates who send a certain volume? Something reasonable and not the usual crap. Maybe that might work? The truth is if there are other things to promote and getting good tier 1 organic traffic is harder why should someone take the risk of sending it to "Yet another paysite which claims 1:300 conversions"?
Affiliates aren't leaving the industry for no reason. They are going because the money isn't there for them.
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Gamble their future? You call 1:10000 a future? With that ratio's i would def. gamble with my future because 1:10000 isn't a future!
See... "Yet another paysite which claims 1:300 conversions"? That's exactly what i mean with affiliates being clueless! Please send a mail to support@epoch and let my convertion-rates be confirmed by them... Really, i'm a bit tired of being implicit called a liar...
I do care about affiliates; never close accounts even if they send 1 visitor a day. Have cookies set at 30 days. I'm going to work with sliiing.com and going to do payments myself in the near future so i can drop minimum weekly payout to $12.50... etc... I even want to look at improving tracking. My bizz model is based on affiliates...
I would love to buy per clicks... On my bucketlist... "guarantee revenue to affiliates who send a certain volume?" Interested in that but not interested in shitty traffic everyone can buy for pennies... and then i'm going to pay for that shitty traffic? So they make profit by selling me shitty traffic that not converts and then scale that shit?