OK affiliate gurus, I need help! I am an affiliate newbie and until recently have brainwashed myself to believe I'll never make any real cash with AFF campaigns and to stick to PPC, self sold ads, and CPM. Well I have some ad space that isn't doing well on a site I have in the PPC department so I'm giving AFF a try. It's a 468x60 banner spot and a default 728x90 leaderboard spot at the top (defaults for adsense image impressions.) Basically I have a site called Only Riddles. It gets decent traffic for a PR0 (over 2k UV/day). I have accounts with Azoogle and Maxbounty. Looking at that site what affiliate types would you think would get me paid! I am currently running a DaDa ringtones campaign which is getting clicks but no leads as of yet (maxbounty). Also I have greedy affiliates disease in it's early stages. I absolutely cannot control my mouse when it comes to only checking out campaigns with high per-lead values. Is it worth running low per-lead or eve per-sale campaigns with less than 3k uniques per day? Help is GREATLY appreciated. If any affiliate guru wants to take me under their wing I sure wouldn't mind being your loyal fan boy
It sounds like you're trying to monetize a site that has a primary demographic of "young and probably without credit card." Getting affiliate payouts in that space is tough work... even a decent CPC campaign can be tough since the keywords are typically low paying. Can you make bank on 3k uniques? Absolutely. My best performer at the moment is under 1500 uniques/day but it makes low $xxx/day with CJ. The traffic is ready to buy and has the credit card in hand... not so with people looking at free joke sites, right? You're on the right track with ringtones. Should you bother with high per-lead? Only if it is extremely targetted and if you can find one that does not require a CC. Don't get down on AFF vs. CPM/PPC; you just have to differentiate between browsing traffic and purchasing traffic. The browsers will usually do better with pure CPM/PPC vs. CPA.
George since you are already apart of MAxbounty you should try some of their freebie offers. as they should perform well on your site people looking for jokes etc.. go for ones that are email only or email and zip or email name and zip. usually would enjoy a freebie they don't payout as much .60 to 1.65 per action but 10 low paying is better than no high paying ones...