My reply in this post showing my recent CCBill ratios
was raw clicks. I even included
Affiliates Without Sales in those stats. If I remove non-converting affiliate sites, my ratios drop remarkably.
I don't use FHGs, and have very few videos on my money-making sites. As Argos88 stated earlier, if a new site I'm trying out goes above 1:1,000 - I don't promote it anymore. I KNOW there are other sites that can easily halve that ratio.
I try to cater to an older audience - an audience that doesn't want to waste their time clicking through random shit to find something they find arousing. Maybe this strategy is killing me traffic-wise, but its what I
know how to do.
Although a lot of programs (particularly amateur programs) that use CCBill are a mess (if not completely broken), a good one is worth its weight in gold. I've been paid on time by CCBill every week since '98 or '99. Long enough that I forget exactly when I signed up - and I don't feel like checking right now.
My oldest CCBill affiliate ref ID is 15053. I've been using them for awhile.
Note: This post reflects my personal experience with CCBill. I do not claim to have a clue about jscott's issues with them. CCBill works just fine for me.
EDIT: Ok, so I checked. Signed up Oct. 1, 1999 here:
http://refer.ccbill.com/cgi-bin/clic...-0000&PA=15053 Been paid on time, every week, since.