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Originally posted by GSpotShawn
Personally I think the reason a lot of people promote PPS is because they don't want to, or don't know how, to filter traffic and find qualified hits for a product. They send to PPS to make the join for $XX and forget about it, the sponsor takes the join and pays out but often does a lot of shady things in the process to break even/make profit.
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I agree with GSpotShawn here - if you want killer conversions, you have to filter all your traffic, don't just blindly send it all to one sponsor or site - filter it through a qualification process which promotes the sites and sponsors you're going to send your surfer to. Send other surfers to other filter pages which promote other sponsors or sites. What's the point in sending 100,000 uniques to 1 sponsor if you know you're going to get 10,000 interested surfers, and of those, only 500 sales. Also, when you're building tour pages, take into account where the traffic is coming from - don't promote penis enlargement pills if your search traffic coming from Google is for something not closely related.
If you filter your traffic, then you only send the 10,000 interested surfers to your sponsor to get your 500 sales, leaving the other 90,000 clicks to use on something that's going to make you money.
The trick is to qualify your surfer before you send them to your sponsor - the fewer people you send to your sponsor and the more closely you qualify them, the greater your conversion rate will be. The trick is, you only really want to send the 500 through that are going to buy, meaning you have 99,500 surfers to send to your other programs.
Another tip I'll give people coming into the business is don't expect money for nothing - you won't make money by doing a half assed job, sure you might make $50 here and there for the odd signup, but if you're looking for a primary income you've gotta do the leg work - the research, the design and the foresight to take your site forward. Webmasters doing a half assed job are ten a penny, and they're falling by the wayside fast. This industry is no different than mainstream in that aspect.
If anyone needs tips and tricks to help them put a plan together that will work, hit me up on ICQ, I can help you out with ideas.