GoFuckYourself.com - Adult Webmaster Forum - View Single Post - When joining an affiliate program, what matters the most?

u-Bob · 07-11-2011, 08:54 AM

- Reputation: do you pay?

- Do you convert? Are your tours optimized for the niche you are targeting or are just you hoping to take advantage of a popular niche without understanding the niche?

Also: if you don't pay on secondary billers: mention that in your faq so we can avoid you.

Be honest. People remember if you are, people will never forget when you aren't.

- promo tools available?
Are they useful or are you just cranking out high numbers of half baked tools in an attempt to get as many affiliates as possible?

In other words: A Sponsors with only 10 FHGs that were designed to convert and have matching descriptions will get more traffic from me than a sponsor with 10000 FHGs with crappy autogenerated descriptions.

Banners... Make sure people actually want to click those. and make it easy for your affiliates to download them. For example: put them all on 1 huge page or make them all available in a zip file. Nothing worse than having to click 4 times per banner or per banner size to be able to download them.

Links: Make it easy for us to export the links for all your sites. Having to click and copy for each site gets old real fast. Put "Sitename,url\nNetsite,url\nNextsite,url\netc" in a textarea so we can quickly copy and paste all links.

Hosted FLVs: we love them.

Members area access: if an affiliate asks for it and has a good reason, why not?

- Payouts: paxum, paypal etc...

Minimum payouts of $50 are fine. Minimum payouts of $200 are just a way to hang on to your affiliate's money a little longer

Want to prevent fraud? Fine, do your research before you send the (first) payment, but don't use the fraud argument to set $200 minimum payouts.
Some of us don't like to put all of our eggs in one basket and promote hundreds of programs (both adult and mainstream) and there's nothing worse than having $184 sit in your accounts because a certain sponsor suddenly stopped converting.

- tours:
If you change a tour, please make sure the old tour is still available as well. More tours = more options for your affiliates. More tours = a better chance your affiliates can match their traffic to your site. It's not as if keeping the old tour up will cost you anything, you already had it designed.

- the NATS payments page: don't hide it.

- Convert!

- Convert!

- Convert! It's better to get $10 per sale on a site that does 1:75 than $175pps on a site that does 1:15000.

- sound on tours or autoplaying trailers: don't do it.

07-11-2011, 08:54 AM
u-Bob there's no $$$ in porn Industry Role: Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: icq: 195./568.-230 (btw: not getting offline msgs) Posts: 33,063	- Reputation: do you pay? - Do you convert? Are your tours optimized for the niche you are targeting or are just you hoping to take advantage of a popular niche without understanding the niche? Also: if you don't pay on secondary billers: mention that in your faq so we can avoid you. Be honest. People remember if you are, people will never forget when you aren't. - promo tools available? Are they useful or are you just cranking out high numbers of half baked tools in an attempt to get as many affiliates as possible? In other words: A Sponsors with only 10 FHGs that were designed to convert and have matching descriptions will get more traffic from me than a sponsor with 10000 FHGs with crappy autogenerated descriptions. Banners... Make sure people actually want to click those. and make it easy for your affiliates to download them. For example: put them all on 1 huge page or make them all available in a zip file. Nothing worse than having to click 4 times per banner or per banner size to be able to download them. Links: Make it easy for us to export the links for all your sites. Having to click and copy for each site gets old real fast. Put "Sitename,url\nNetsite,url\nNextsite,url\netc" in a textarea so we can quickly copy and paste all links. Hosted FLVs: we love them. Members area access: if an affiliate asks for it and has a good reason, why not? - Payouts: paxum, paypal etc... Minimum payouts of $50 are fine. Minimum payouts of $200 are just a way to hang on to your affiliate's money a little longer Want to prevent fraud? Fine, do your research before you send the (first) payment, but don't use the fraud argument to set $200 minimum payouts. Some of us don't like to put all of our eggs in one basket and promote hundreds of programs (both adult and mainstream) and there's nothing worse than having $184 sit in your accounts because a certain sponsor suddenly stopped converting. - tours: If you change a tour, please make sure the old tour is still available as well. More tours = more options for your affiliates. More tours = a better chance your affiliates can match their traffic to your site. It's not as if keeping the old tour up will cost you anything, you already had it designed. - the NATS payments page: don't hide it. - Convert! - Convert! - Convert! It's better to get $10 per sale on a site that does 1:75 than $175pps on a site that does 1:15000. - sound on tours or autoplaying trailers: don't do it. Last edited by u-Bob; 07-11-2011 at 08:55 AM..