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Originally Posted by gen3ric  Great feedback! I've been researching affiliate marketing and trying to figure out ways to start integrating it into my project without being to invasive. Which affiliate programs do you use? I've been playing around with Azoogle and CJ... |
Well, here's the thing... I only use
ONE AFFILIATE source and they aren't listed under CJ or anyone else for that matter. They have their own genuine affiliate program and they provide all the stat data via login from their site. You see, the niche I am in has only one product to market. People that are looking for this product have a great desire to buy it rather than browse. I wouldn't recommend having an affiliate site with many different products. Keep it very selective, so the traffic you do get for it, while minimal it may be, will give you a higher CTR rate and sales. People get turned off when visiting an affiliate site, so you have to make it look like you're not an affiliate site, but rather just showing people the product line and having them vote on which one is the coolest.
For example, let's say you have 2 pligg sites set up with the same theme involving the sale of Sexy Girl Posters. One site you use CJ and signup with 100 different poster vendors. This site you create has well over 10,000 of the hottest girl in Bikini posters around, from Old School Farah Fawcett to New School Britney Spears. You got it covered. This site brings in 6000 visitors a day but you sell only 5 posters a day. Why? Because your site really isn't that much different from any other poster site and they will likely leave within 10 seconds after seeing your home page.
Now, your other Pligg site you devote just to 50 Farrah Fawcett posters. This site brings in only 600 visitors a day -- yet you sell 25 posters a day. Why? Because you're in a niche market looking for specific people who
ONLY WANT A FARAH FAWCETT POSTER. This market is looking specifically for your product, so the odds of them being serious buyers are greater than being a passer-by. Not to mention, the other pligg site will be much harder to gain rank in Google due to the competitiveness of your broad range for keywords. But the niche site will rank high and very fast because fewer competitors are selling what you have to sell.
This is what I'd recommend. Find a good product that people are specifically looking for and then make a pligg site around that product -- but make it fun so people vote, comment and buy it rather than think your site is just another affiliate site.
