Hi all, I have a football website that's been around for quite a few years and gets about 4,000 visits per day. For the past few years I've been using AdSense, making roughly $100/month, which doesn't even cover the web hosting costs. So, I've done some reading about affiliate marketing and decided to try it. Could anyone suggest a good affiliate program for a website like mine? Thanks in advance
Wait, football or soccer? Heh, don't mind me asking - I don't know where you are from! Think about signing up for programs that provide online betting. Just an idea.
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That's pretty good traffic, I'd suggest signing up with CommissionJunction and having a look through their inventory of programs. Personally I'd steer clear from betting programs, since in the US that is a big gray area. I'd look at selling team logo'd merchandise, which I know there are programs on CJ for this. Lastly, only $100 per month in Adsense with 4k uniques per month is just terrible. I'd focus on better placement, because chances are with bad placement you aren't going to do any better with affiliating either. Like for starters instead of just having a header Adsense ad I'd get an adsense block added to the second post of every thread. This is a common practice and there are mods available to do this.
Yeah, I know that $100/month with that kinda traffic is not good. I used to get much more from prepaid ticket ads, but all of those clients have disappeared lately. Hence I am now looking for other ways of generating revenue.
coasttocoasttickets, tickco and a bunch of others... they just stopped advertising with me. Apparently, my competitors had their prices very low compared to mine because they now have all these ticket brokers and I know that they are getting less traffic
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Ebay's affiliate program would probably work pretty well for you. Sports fans love to buy everything from memorabilia, jerseys, caps, tickets and just about any other licensed items.
look at your traffic logs. What terms to people use to find you? What things can you sell that match those terms?
I have a dedicated server... $185/month. I have hundreds of people constantly refreshing the message board on game days and anything less than a decent dedicated server will just crash.
You're wrong about them liking "licensed items". They like cheap items and prefer Chinese knock off jerseys over officially licensed NFL merchandise I am in an affiliate program for a website that sells jerseys, caps, etc... hundreds of clicks and zero sales.
Okay, I see your point about "licensed" but on Ebay you normally pay less for even the licensed stuff than you would at say Steiner or the NFL Shop for example. I haven't had a lot of luck with direct sellers of sports stuff either but on the bay it has been much better.
Great suggestion, perhaps you should look into joining the eBay affiliate program through the auction site or on Pepperjam. They offer some great widgets you could throw up on different parts of your site to attract some clicks. Also, have you considered doing some sort of incentive sign up? I always suspected this would pay off in a forum with a good number of members.
I had no idea what to expect from adsense payouts but that seems like a lot of work for little return - im quite gutted bout that