Anyone have advice on being a travel affiliate? What are the best programs? Can a little money be made? I was thinking of one of those sites that allow people to book travel.
As far as advice goes, what I've found is that it's best to find a niche, then try and wedge your way in. Travel is really difficult, and it's taken me years to get to where I'm at. If you think you can just jump into a "travel deals" niche and suddenly beat out Travelzoo, Shermans Travel, Travelocity, etc., you're going to have a tough time. Unfortunately. As far as whether or not a little money can be made, I'd say yes. Travel is huge, and my tiny piece of the pie nets me around $10k per month. Just find your niche.
rpink....Thanks for your advice. How many years have been working away to acheive that sort of money?
In your experience is one affilate program better than others? I'm interested in the kind of support and webtools they provide. Thx.
I've been working since about the year 2000, give or take. But I've only been working hard at it the last few years. And I do no PPC, it's all SEO. As far as specific programs go, yeah, some are better than others. It's hard for me to say which, mostly because it really depends on the site and page. As lame as this probably sounds (quick and easy answers are so much better!), you really need to figure out what you want to do, then experiment and test the hell out of the site to figure out what works best. No one knows what will work best in any given situation - the only way to know for sure is to test.
rpink - what affiliate program gives you also content. I would like something like templatemonster where they give you feed and basicly there is script which you use and you make complete SEO friendly page with thousands of templates just in few hours. Is there some travel affiliate program like this?
I don't know of one that works like that, though I'm sure they exist. IAN and Expedia have content, as I recall, but not the rest that you want. I've always dismissed those kinds of schemes, so someone else probably knows more of those than I do.
i don't like ian.com........i've been an affiliate for about two months.....no sales yet.......the biggest flaws that i found are that they do no have last minute booking; you have to book about three days in advance.....and they have to confirm your booking in 24 hours!!!!.....so if the rate you tried to get is gone in less than 24 hours your fried........
i've seen that priceline has good commissions......they updated their rates....check them out.......wow!!!! 10k per month?????......I would like to have that niche.........