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Originally Posted by Toni
What are the tools you mostly use from affiliate programs? What would you need more of and what kind of tools would you like to have?
Is anybody still using free hosted galleries?
What about Hosted FLV's? Video banners? RSS feeds?
What tools help you make more money?
What tools have you ever thought would be great to have?
Please share your thoughts.
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I find that FHG's are the best converting to sales but at the same time they are the least user friendly.
I recently redesigned one of my websites to be completely mobile friendly, responsive and has a video player that works with all devices - I switched it from FHG's to this new style so everyone would be able to view the trailers etc. Since doing that I've gone from 5-6 membership sales a month to 0 sales.
I think the reason the sales are 0 compared to what they were before are because the user isn't sent to the website and linked or "cookied" or whatever to my affiliate account (Like with FHG's). Instead they have to actually click on a banner to go to the site, but I feel that they just type in the website and go directly and there is no linking it to my account to give affiliate referral credit. Loading an FHG automatically links your affiliate account to the user, clicking on the banner does too, but going directly to the website does not.
The problem with FHG's is they are usually non-responsive and not mobile / tablet friendly but they should be. So much traffic is mobile and tablet now. If programs have a standard FHG template that they just put new content into, it should be extremely easy to make it fully responsive with some CSS.
(Affiliate Friendly Hosted Banners Idea)
I would love it if hosted banners would use iframe, with affiliate code in url (Like FHG's Do) to a page with just the banner. This instead of just hosting the banner.
This would work for people who have video players with hosted banners under / over them. When the user lands on that video page it would link to their affiliate code because the iframe would load the url with the affiliate code, and that url would just display the banner. I'm not sure if I'm describing this very well, but it would be very useful especially to people who use video players with banners.
Also the hosted url / banner could be made responsive on the programs side so there is never an issue for the affiliate or the users viewing the content.