What % of new affils ever send a hit?
 

Program owners:

What percentage of people that signup to your affiliate program ever actually send traffic and/or sales?

1 in 2?
1 in 5?
1 in 10?

I'm always amazed by how few people actually send traffic after signing up. What's the point of creating an account.

What percentage of program owners ever respond to affiliate applications?

I'm always amazed by how few programs ever bother to acknowledge a new affiliate application. What's the point of having an application form?

15% maybe?

More seriously, it's been my experience that it's usually impossible to find out whether an affiliate program will meet my needs until I sign up. What does the stats package look like? Is there a decent amount of affiliate content? Are the affiliate rules sensible, or bizarre? A lot of times you have to sign up to find out.

If I send traffic to 15% of the programs I sign up for, I'm doing well. Far too many affiliate programs are useless or just don't meet my needs.

10-15 % :Oh crap

what Forkbeard said, for me personally, I am happy if I find 10% of the programs I sign-up for within my needs.

Most programs sit around the low teens for a active webmaster base. 10% seems to be about what any awake program can reach. Getting up to 20% or higher means the program is contacting new and old Webmasters and working with them more one on one.

Or, they totally kick ass.

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