THIS is what YOU look for First when you land on an Affiliate Program Page?

How can you look for conversion ratios when you first land on a page?

i am new, but i wouldn't promote something for $10 signups

I check to see if they throw crazy parties and give out free BJs.

Many programs put their "average conversion ratio" on their page. To me, this means nothing due to reasons of credibility, but I figured some people might look for it.

I personally look for sites first. If I think they sell, I immediately sign up and try them. Strength of the site (in marketing and content) is everything to me.

What about you TGF (btw, long time no see ;) still designing?)

I don't care about how their paysites look, I don't even care how they convert. I just care about how cool the flash looks and how good the bullshit techno beat is on the WM page. That's all that matters, right?

Damn straight.. And it should ONLY work in IE6!!

Pretty much yeah. Just for ourselves though.

Right on!

The very first thing I look for is a button called "hosted galleries". if I dont see it I look around for it. If I still dont find it then it's 50% lost.

If I see pictures of pimps and cars and jewelry I get turned off and leave. It makes it look like they're not serious.

First of all, I look for the payout. Then I look at the quality of the sites. If either is shit, I don't bother.

I'm sure there are kids these days... all of them fucking stupid, that just go for the sponsor with the prettiest graphics.

The first thing I look for is if they payout by wire or paypal.
The second thing is the quality of the sites.

First thing i look is how the content is gonna convert my traffic. After that comes payment methods and other things.

coversions

What kind of ads they have.

10 horizontal banners, 2 vert and 3 buttons per site - I wouldn't promote them.

FPA's, HPA's, odd banners, ..... - Great, then I would go ahead and see what kind of sites they have.

payout / faq's / sites

The ones I like best have cool flash files. I'm not so keen if they crash my browser, but if they are nice and slow, I can stare vacantly into space for a few minutes. Good chance for a break.

Then they should tell me how they are the top paying program and what unique sites they have (my favorites are the "60% partnerships" with lots of plugins, because I can play hunt the small print to find where it says 50% after deductions and then figure out what that means for the average 2-month membership).

Lots of promo content. Banners are best because surfers stopped clicking on them a couple of years ago and that saves me having to track my traffic. When you do your hosted galleries, make sure the URLs can't be scanned by link checkers and that scripts like Comus won't be able to capture any thumbs. There are a couple of producers who are very popular sources for blowout content, but if you are worried their stuff might pull too many hits, there is some really good stuff out there: no gamma corrections, nothing, so your URL will stand out real well.

It's always encouraging to know that the program has been "beta tested" by some heavy hitters for a few months before the riff-raff got let in. I don't want the risk of promoting something the surfers haven't seen yet.

And attention to detail is important. For example, make it so that the only way I can change my account information is to email someone who never reads their emails.

im looking for beta-tested innovation. I mean, why should i sign up and promote just another average teen site ???

If 70% of you voted for the quality of the site it can't mean the content, otherwise there would not be so much crap out there.

If I was looking for an affiliate I would be looiking at site from the perspective of the surfer. All the traffic in the world will not help if the site can't convert it.