Have you tried blue host's affiliate programs? Is it worth it?

12 years ago

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12 years ago

I use Bluehost and have had no trouble, they are very helpful and I would reccomend them from my experience. If you create your own products you can include an affiliate link in the resources or recommended or include it on your blog which might bring a few sales.
Big money on hosting is usaully made on the back end of a sale, usually a free website is offered. These kind of deals are usually the get rich quick push button kind of stuff.

Good luck

Clive

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MadLion

11 years ago

Originally Posted by shintaiguy

I use Bluehost and have had no trouble, they are very helpful and I would reccomend them from my experience. If you create your own products you can include an affiliate link in the resources or recommended or include it on your blog which might bring a few sales.
Big money on hosting is usaully made on the back end of a sale, usually a free website is offered. These kind of deals are usually the get rich quick push button kind of stuff.

Good luck

Clive

You are correct they make money on the back end but that can create problems for web designers or SEOs since they probably will be offering the new customer web designe, seo services, and the like. This can kill your business.

Is this the case with Bluehost? It sure as hell is with ipage who killed a few deals for me. Shame on me for even using them in the first place.

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Lloyd Buchinski

12 years ago

Bluehost has very positive comments at webhostingtalk.com. One of the more prominent members here, Dennis Gaskill, uses it, and advertises it. He has for some time and I'm sure if the affiliate program had problems, he wouldn't.

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bosspulsa

12 years ago

Originally Posted by Lloyd Buchinski

Bluehost has very positive comments at webhostingtalk.com. One of the more prominent members here, Dennis Gaskill, uses it, and advertises it. He has for some time and I'm sure if the affiliate program had problems, he wouldn't.

Thank You. I never using bluehost. I think in future i will try it because your information

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blackrabbit

12 years ago

Take a look at Pat Flynn's' income report at smartpassiveincome.com. He does pretty well from Bluehost.

Personally I have found Bluehost to be great to work with; really helpful team of guys over there.

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Joe Mobley

11 years ago

Exactly my first thought. Here is his Oct., 2012 income report.

My Monthly Income Report – October 2012

Note that his Oct. 2012 Bluehost.com affiliate commission was $23,100.

Twenty-three thousand dollars for one month!

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Originally Posted by blackrabbit

Take a look at Pat Flynn's' income report at smartpassiveincome.com. He does pretty well from Bluehost.

Personally I have found Bluehost to be great to work with; really helpful team of guys over there.

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QuanWar

11 years ago

Originally Posted by Joe Mobley

Exactly my first thought. Here is his Oct., 2012 income report.

My Monthly Income Report - October 2012

Note that his Oct. 2012 Bluehost.com affiliate commission was $23,100.

Twenty-three thousand dollars for one month!

Joe Mobley

$23k is pretty amazing - that's half his monthly income. I think we could all live on that. I think this is recurring as well i.e. you get commission for hosting and domain package renewals. So once someone signs up they become a mini-cash cow for you every time they renew their package. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think that's how it works.

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CurtisSWN

12 years ago

If you make only one sale, they will keep the $65 commision. They pay out only after the first $100, if you make no other sales you'll never get the commission.

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Mr. Ken Russell 12 years ago

If you have the traffic it's definitely worth it. Great Payouts and awesome customer support.
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petemcal

11 years ago

Originally Posted by CurtisSWN

If you make only one sale, they will keep the $65 commision. They pay out only after the first $100, if you make no other sales you'll never get the commission.

This is the problem I've been having whilst looking for web hosting affiliate programs.

Are there any that offer recurring monthly % comissions compared to the one off payment offered by bluehost?

I'd much rather have a recurring smaller commission than a single lump sum. Any recommendations are much appreciated.

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Alex Williams 11 years ago

Originally Posted by petemcal

Are there any that offer recurring monthly % comissions compared to the one off payment offered by bluehost?

Yes there are, unfortunately I cannot remember their names What I do remember is that the payout is around $5 monthly - not that much.
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OutsourceFactor

11 years ago

Here's what I can tell you:

1) The bigger guys can afford to pay more. Bluehost is a bigger guy. $65 one time payment is about as good as it gets.

2) An example of a host that pays monthly for affiliate commission is WebFaction. At OutsourceFactor we've them on podcasts before. Very good host, but 10% recurring fee to affiliates. So that means getting about $1/month or $12/year. It would take 6 years to get the same value out of your customer. That's too long.

3) Someone mentioned a $5/month affiliate payment. I would like to see that. I doubt it highly. Why? Because that's over 50% payout on most of the hosting plans that exist. It would kill the host's profitability.

If it seems too good to be true, it is.

Bluehost, BTW, pays reliably. Their tracking works. They are a decent host. I've personally been on BH for many years.

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dylan4f

11 years ago

I have heard only positive things about BlueHost affiliate program, and I'm just starting to promote them also..Until now I was promoting hostgator, but their payouts sucks..

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Dale_Anthony

11 years ago

Jensha, I've been with BlueHost since 2003, I recommend them

You can also go through your link and purchase hosting and they won't yank the commission out of your hand like some other companies (startlogic, webhostingpad)

I signed up for a new account three weeks ago and minus the commission got a year of webhosting for only $15 dollars.

Like I said I'd recommend them

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vicdublin

11 years ago

I happen to come across a thread were people were comparing the affiliate programs for hostgator and godaddy. Somebody came up with Bluehost as the best one to promote while advicing to stay away from hostgator. I can't find that thread now, I would have linked to it here. But from people's opinion, Bluehost seems to be more trusted even though am not an affiliate for any so I can't give a qualified opinion.

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Dale_Anthony

11 years ago

Originally Posted by vicdublin

I happen to come across a thread were people were comparing the affiliate programs for hostgator and godaddy. Somebody came up with Bluehost as the best one to promote while advicing to stay away from hostgator. I can't find that thread now, I would have linked to it here. But from people's opinion, Bluehost seems to be more trusted even though am not an affiliate for any so I can't give a qualified opinion.

It might be this thread here...I subscribed to it...I'm trying to get some pointers from Pat Flynn...Don't know him...but the links to his newsletter are a good read for anyone serious about becoming affiliated with web hosting.

http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...e-program.html

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Lucian Lada

11 years ago

HostGator offers up to $125 per new customer, which is almost double the commission you for each new BlueHost customer (or HostMonster, which is its sister company).

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vicdublin

11 years ago

Lucian Lada, It is true that Hostgator pays a huge Affiliate commission but if you look up the thread that Dale_Anthony dug up there, you will understand that a lot of affiliates were not too happy on how their commissions where handled. Do you have a better experience? I would love to know as I may sign up with them in the future.

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Lucian Lada

11 years ago

Originally Posted by vicdublin

Lucian Lada, It is true that Hostgator pays a huge Affiliate commission but if you look up the thread that Dale_Anthony dug up there, you will understand that a lot of affiliates were not too happy on how their commissions where handled. Do you have a better experience? I would love to know as I may sign up with them in the future.

My post focuses on pay per new referral, as I have no experience with them - I've only heard their services are good, and I assumed their affiliate program is good as well.

But you have made a good decision about avoiding affiliate programs that have a problem paying affiliates, despite higher commissions being offered.

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PaulyC

11 years ago

I've been making some easy money with the bluehost referral program for a couple years. I would recommend it!

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onegoodman

11 years ago

I am using them, didn't have much success with them so far, had better luck with other hosting companies

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Vimal Gobin

11 years ago

Seems like I'm the only one who had trouble with Blue Host's support (not as an affiliate, but as a hosting customer). Everyone else loves it though, so it's gotta be "just me"

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Kevin McNally

11 years ago

If you are generating a lot of sales you will be able to ask for more than $65 per sale with Blue Host, not sure what the level is capped at but as mentioned one guy does over 20k per month with them.

In comparison you can get $100 with Hostgator through CJ.com or $125 per sale for higher volume through Hostgator's own program ( I think it starts at only $50 per sale ).

Good point about the small monthly recurring commission being more attractive but at $5 per month you might have to wait 2 years to get to the same as a one off payment. On the plus side that customer might stay with them for many years.

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bizoppmaster

11 years ago

Be careful with these affiliate programs, they tend not to pay.

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Randall Magwood

11 years ago

Consider Hostgator or Yahoo Webhosting for recurring money each month.

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petemcal

11 years ago

I've looked closely at the terms and conditions for bluehost vs hostgator. Here's a direct comparison from what I can see:

Commission per single referral
BH $65
HG$50

Minimum payout threshold
BH$100
HG $100

Maximum payment per signup
BH$65
HG$125

Minimum period referral has to stay active
BH 90 days
HG n/a

From what I can see hostgator looks like the better deal if you're posting good numbers. But I see people recommending bluehost over them quite a lot. I don't understand why. Can anyone give specific cases/examples to demonstrate why one is better than the other please?

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Kevin McNally

11 years ago

Minimum period referral has to stay active
BH 90 days
HG n/a

Would that mean you are waiting 3 months on payment with BH before they confirm a customer is active ?

I don't promote them at the moment but that would seriously put me off as it could be nearer 4 months before payment ?

Anyone promoting BH confirm payment schedule ?

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Mystery777

11 years ago

Originally Posted by Kevin McNally

Would that mean you are waiting 3 months on payment with BH before they confirm a customer is active ?

I don't promote them at the moment but that would seriously put me off as it could be nearer 4 months before payment ?

Anyone promoting BH confirm payment schedule ?

That's the default threshold period, but you can always negotiate a faster one if you are bringing good volume.

HostGator might generate you more money due to their popularity and their increasing commission structure. However, you almost always endup with half or more of your sales "shaved" (ie. not getting paid for them, even when you know for sure they are legit sales of people who have their websites still hosted live with HostGator).

Yes, there are web hosting companies that pay you recurring commissions, for example as mentioned above: WebFaction and DreamHost. When I joined DreamHost you get to choose if you want one time payments or recurring. For recurring they used to pay you $7 per referral per month. Now I believe they changed it to $6 or so.

Also there are many other very good web hosting affiliate programs. If you do good with marketing and are able to generate a good number of sales per month, you'd do well with almost all the big hosting companies. You can negotiate deals with the big companies, that reach upto $200-$250 per sale and even more.

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Brady Partridge

11 years ago

Is it okay to advertise more than one web hosting affiliate on your site? For example, can you advertise both Blue Host and Hostgator?

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cooler1

11 years ago

With the minimum payment threshold being $100 with BH and HG, is it like Clickbank where your earnings get melted away if you don't reach the payout threshold within a certain period or do neither do this?

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Mystery777

11 years ago

Originally Posted by cooler1

With the minimum payment threshold being $100 with BH and HG, is it like Clickbank where your earnings get melted away if you don't reach the payout threshold within a certain period or do neither do this?

No, it's not. Clickbank is the only network that does that.

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carlos123

10 years ago

For what it's worth and for anyone coming to this thread as of right now...May 31, 2014 I was told by a BlueHost tech person that both BlueHost and Hostgator are owned by the same company.

That Hostgator's servers are at the same data center as BlueHost servers.

So their offerings and otherwise are probably set by higher ups who are in fact in the same parent company.

Carlos

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CyberAlien

10 years ago

Originally Posted by carlos123

For what it's worth and for anyone coming to this thread as of right now...May 31, 2014 I was told by a BlueHost tech person that both BlueHost and Hostgator are owned by the same company.

That Hostgator's servers are at the same data center as BlueHost servers.

So their offerings and otherwise are probably set by higher ups who are in fact in the same parent company.

Carlos

That's common knowledge nowadays and not something to bump such an old thread over. However, not all of HostGator servers are at the Provo datacenter, there's a good out that are now at their own datacenter in Houston.

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ekup

10 years ago

Bluehost afffiliate program is very trustable than hostgator. I have made thousands with bluehost.

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tristatemedia

10 years ago

i agree i am noticing alot of people staying away for the gator and moving to bluehost. i see alot of the big gurus using them

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interpoll90 10 years ago

I think the only downside with BH is that since HG is more popular, you will easily make sales promoting HG compared to BH.
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osensnolf

10 years ago

I use to do very well with iPage. They pay $150 per sale.

My only complaint is that their sales page not as attractive as BlueHost.

So, the question is... which will pan our more. The ugly page with x2.3 earnings or the pretty page with much lower commission?

I may do both and see which one gets the best results.

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Clyde Dennis

10 years ago

I started out with BH way back in the day (over 10 years ago). They weren't very good at all back then so I switched to Hostgator about a year or so in. HG has real good for a long time but have started to slide a little as of late, so I'm contemplating a change. I'm thinking maybe it's time to give BH another look.

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discrat

9 years ago

Originally Posted by Clyde Dennis

I started out with BH way back in the day (over 10 years ago). They weren't very good at all back then so I switched to Hostgator about a year or so in. HG has real good for a long time but have started to slide a little as of late, so I'm contemplating a change. I'm thinking maybe it's time to give BH another look.

Are you saying the affiliate program at Hostgator is sliding ? Or the actual company itself and the debacle with EIG ??

In the past I have personally considered doing some Affiliate work with Hostgator, but I find it hard to want to represent a Company that has so dramatically fallen in service

- Robert Andrew

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awledd

9 years ago

I don't know why but my first sale earned me $100. After that the usual $65. My first payment arrived my Paypal after some 3 months.

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