Programs That Paid Me Cash

[Andy]

Here are 2 affiliate schemes that I have been paid for on numerous occasions:

cj.com and tradedoubler.com

Lately only cj.com is paying. I have made good money from Tradedoubler in the last few years but lately I don't make anything from them.  

CJ.com have very good stats where you can evaluate the payment history of merchants and get masking of your affiliate link.

The best ever commision I earn't was over $100 on a batch of printer ink from 1 click! And this was on a single off-topic page on my site.

So go with CJ.com and choose your merchants carefully.

I tend to avoid banners and steer people to a click via their interest in my page content. Everone says that text links are best. How many banners do you click in comparison to text links?

Lately I am trying affiliate programmes that pay repeated commisions based on subscriptions. This way you get paid beyond the 1st sale. So you can build residual income.  

[Queen Bee]

I click more banners than text links because I like looking at images. If the banner intrigues me, I'll click it. I'm an image person, I hate to say it, but sometimes I don't even like visiting sites unless there's color and images involved.

But at the same time, sometimes banners are annoying and clutter websites. Unless you're the one putting the banner there, I really hate them. Geocities and Tripod and all of their banner systems are awful... You can't control any of it.

But it really depends on the site, I'd have to see the way the text links work to really decide.

[Andy]

Hmm, that's interesting...

So visual sites like art, grahics and maybe music should have nice image links and infomational sites maybe better with text links?

Personally I think images help to generate a pleasant look and can indicate a profesional website but text links are essential.

Imagine if this sort of text link was on your site. Would people click an image link or this ?   ...

Free to download, an amazing backdrop image for your desktop. Brighten up your desktop now. Digital Artwork for free download Get a new one each week.

Then include your site ad in one corner of the image. Hopefully, other people would see the ad too and go to your site.

[Queen Bee]

I will definitely consider trying that...

But my next project is to create a site dedicated to just my web design services and my awards program.

Maybe when I'm done with that I will create a user gallery and some other ways to bring in traffic...

[Andy]

Last month I tried out an interesting affiliate program for auction information after reading an article about the owner of the site who made over 100K in the 1st year. I think he gets ~30K hits per month.

I sent him 121 targeted visitors with no sales over 3 weeks until my site went down. I expected at least one sale so emailed him. The response was good being direct and personal and he admitted the affil program was new and his personal conversion was 2% of site visitors. I think this is useful info to keep things in perspective.

BTW some of my affiliations have had amazing conversions but only a few sales due to low numbers of traffic so I have difficulty understanding when I get large traffic on other links, the sales don't flow   Maybe I need lots of low traffic niche pages?

According to my research, the best idea is to get your own product. My only product so far is websites that are valuable advertising space.

[SensoVision]

Here are 2 affiliate schemes that I have been paid for on numerous occasions:

cj.com and tradedoubler.com

Lately only cj.com is paying. I have made good money from Tradedoubler in the last few years but lately I don't make anything from them.  

CJ.com have very good stats where you can evaluate the payment history of merchants and get masking of your affiliate link.

The best ever commision I earn't was over $100 on a batch of printer ink from 1 click! And this was on a single off-topic page on my site.

So go with CJ.com and choose your merchants carefully.

I tend to avoid banners and steer people to a click via their interest in my page content. Everone says that text links are best. How many banners do you click in comparison to text links?

Lately I am trying affiliate programmes that pay repeated commisions based on subscriptions. This way you get paid beyond the 1st sale. So you can build residual income.  

Hi Andy, and thanks for this good post! I'm planning to post something like this some time ago but as usually forget to do this, so thx again for starting this topic!
Personally I didn't get any check yet from companies I work with so I tell you about which companies have best conversion rate and which generate most cash for me.(which isn't sended to me yet).
BTW Andy why don't you correct your links to companies you've posted so they have refferal id inside, maybe it will make you some of cash as well. We not mind folks to post ref.id as long as it's related to topic.

Ok here is companies I work with,
1. I want to start from one which is most close to issue cheque -  SubmitPlus. I've earn 43 dollars for last two month. I've get sale for each 100 cliks as show their stat. when my balance grow over 50 I'll get issued check
2. next goes SearchFeed.com which serve feed for our Pharos Directory I've install it about 1-1.5 month ago and it's doing pretty good... so if you have some small directory you'll maybe try it to backfill some search results or provide additional content for your categories, this could bring you some cash maybe...
3. another one is FineClicks it's not have so much campaigns to choose from as e.g. www.cj.com or shareasale.com but I've get much better conversion rate here...
as for shareasale I like campaigns they offer and I run many their banners and get good CTR on them but I've get not much sales from this...
4. and last one but not least is Bravenet affiliate program... if you're using any of it's services you're probably saw that they have it... I actually didn't advertise it for long time but after I install PHPAdsNew I've put one 468*60 and one 88*31 banner into rotation, after 2-3 months I've log in and discover that it bring me 19 dollars, so I've added more banners from Bravenet to my rotation, and they are keep working, that's probably because they bring free services which is always are popular among people.

this is all companies as for now which I want to tell you about, I work with many others but they have low conversion rate for me...
Also I want to mention that almost all companies which I mention before appear on my site not so long ago... previously I work with CJ, Linkshare but I have no such luck as Andy... lately I've resigned from Linkshare and leave only CJ banners... I've send them about thousand or maybe even more cliks and only earn 55 cents for all this time... maybe I've choose wrong advertisers... who knows... but I keep working with them as they provide handy interface for managing you campaigns and also have good selection of advertisers to choose from. So I just can't refuse from them even if they don't generate me any revenue sounds strange but it's true... but they make me easy to resign fromt them as one day when I want to check my stat and see if anyone buy something I've find out that my account is inactive... I assume that they wasn't pleased that I send much traffic but get no cash or something like this... anyway their banners not appear on my site now.
Hope this thread will keep on running and will help people to decide which companies to work with, also I would still advice to try CJ through it not work for me maybe you'll have more luck.

BTW Andy, is tradedoubler UK oriented or my brain fail me once again? as I think that I've check it out long ago but it hasn't campaigns interesting for me.

[Andy]

Tradedoubler is for UK and Europe.

CJ links pay very well sometimes then nothing like you experienced.

Thanks for posting some programs I never hear of like fineclicks.

I will check these out and maybe sign up and report on success.

[SensoVision]

Fineclicks is good one, it has some good advertisers on board and also support pay-per-impression(for pop-ups), pay-per-click, pay-per-lead, pay-per-sale, and hybrid. Also in CJ I was abouy year but make no cash, here I start to earn some from the first week I've place their banner in rotation. I believe they have better tracking system, but I could be wrong of course.

[Andy]

I just had my 1st sale from the auctions website after 339 clicks for £2.50 I advertise this link for free, targeting Google searches. It would be impossible to make a gain from pay-per click advertising from this. What I'm interested in with this sort of affiliate program is that it is subscription-based so could lead to repeated sales/subcriptions.

I discovered this site via:
http://dynamic.secretstotheirsuccess.com/t.cgi/
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[SensoVision]

this site you refer to would look to me as usual MLM, but if you say it help to you I would take a closer look when I have time...

BTW I'm currently testing Google AdSense and should admin that I never saw dividents so fast... I'm with them for less than week, you can see 120*600 banners on Pharos Directory... and I've already made 3.03 USD for this time... so if you have a site which doesn't use dynamic pages you can try to apply as well and see if it will work for you.
Here is the link to this program https://www.google.com/adsense even if you have small web site with uqnique content you can try to apply as currently they seems to accept almost any legitimate site which has good content.

[Queen Bee]

Thanks for the suggestion, Denis. Maybe when I have a high trafficking website I'll try it out...

[SensoVision]

Thanks for the suggestion, Denis. Maybe when I have a high trafficking website I'll try it out...

the key isn't in high traffic but in good content, I think you can try to apply and most likely they accept you, at least I think so.

[Andy]

I have an update on the auctions site page. I now have 3 sales averaging £2.50 per 161 clicks. This is quite interesting given that this income is from a single webpage and is all in the 1st half of this month. So I have a potential £15 per month off 1 web page. The actual page was uploaded 2 months ago.

This page took me less than 1 hour to construct which is again interesting since I get paid something like this from an hours work at my normal job but the difference being is that my pay stops at the job when I go home. So, this page should continue to work for me while I build another page. You get the picture??

One of the key things I did was to focus on keywords in the text on the page to ensure that people found my page. My secret to identifying these key words was by using the free trial of Wordtracker: http://our.affiliatetracking.net/wordtracker/af.cgi?7777

I look forward to posting more on this subject...

[SensoVision]

Glad to hear you're making some cash... BTW did you ever get any cash from Wordtracker affilaite program? since I've getting ton of clicks to them but no registration... I believe that most people are using their trial and those who use paid services is most likely already registered a while ago...

[Andy]

Actually, I just registered for Wordtracker. I use them alot via the free link so I decided to make a promo page about their services. I haven't considered why people use their paid-service. I haven't needed to go beyond the free service.

However, they do claim that some affiliates make a substantial income from their program. So, sinse you question this matter ...  I imagine that some corporate customers are happy to pay to justify their expenditure decisions based on claims by the like of Wordtracker. So I guess I should go for corporate decision makers.

Wordtracker is definately a usefull webmaster resource:
http://our.affiliatetracking.net/wordtracker/af.cgi?7777

Webmasters get 15% of sales! 5% on refferal sales.