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Putting a Site on an Affiliate Network

by Wickaman
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I've been trying to figure out how to get traffic to a site that offers a service for a monthly fee. I was thinking it might be a good idea to setup on an affiliate site such as Commission Junction and have affiliates do a lot of the work. This would hopefully help get a lot of initial users quickly since the site will thrive on user participation.

I don't know anything about this. How hard is it to get it set up, be accepted, and all that jazz? Just tossing ideas around at this point.
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  • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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    Originally Posted by Wickaman View Post

    I've been trying to figure out how to get traffic to a site that offers a service for a monthly fee. I was thinking it might be a good idea to setup on an affiliate site such as Commission Junction and have affiliates do a lot of the work.
    I see the logic, as far as it goes.

    However, there's a major "catch" with it, too. Clearly, you'd need to promote your affiliate-opportunity to prospective affiliates, to make that worth doing, rather than getting potential customer traffic to your website. The problem is that there'd be no point in trying to do that (and indeed it could be actively counter-productive) before having the sales page fully tweaked, tested and proven.

    You see what I mean, perhaps? Attracting affiliates is the easy part: it's retaining them that's the real job, and there's no point in doing one without the other. For this reason, it's essential to start that process from the position of already knowing that their traffic, when you get it, is going to be converted by your sales page. Otherwise what's the purpose of the whole exercise? :confused:

    You probably won't be able to get back any affiliates who try your product/service and discover that it doesn't convert their traffic, so you have to get this the right way round: proven conversions first (and you'll need a lot of traffic, to test everything) - then affiliates.

    "Getting affiliates to supply the traffic" is futile, without thoroughly and methodically testing every aspect of it yourself, first.

    Originally Posted by Wickaman View Post

    This would hopefully help get a lot of initial users quickly
    Nope - I'm afraid this really isn't the way to look at it.

    Originally Posted by Wickaman View Post

    I don't know anything about this. How hard is it to get it set up, be accepted, and all that jazz? Just tossing ideas around at this point.
    It varies a lot from place to place. (There are a lot of services, some attracting good affiliates, at ClickBank, too, in addition to the places you mentioned.)

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    • Profile picture of the author Wickaman
      Originally Posted by Alexa Smith View Post

      I see the logic, as far as it goes.

      However, there's a major "catch" with it, too. Clearly, you'd need to promote your affiliate-opportunity to prospective affiliates, to make that worth doing, rather than getting potential customer traffic to your website. The problem is that there'd be no point in trying to do that (and indeed it could be actively counter-productive) before having the sales page fully tweaked, tested and proven.

      You see what I mean, perhaps? Attracting affiliates is the easy part: it's retaining them that's the real job, and there's no point in doing one without the other. For this reason, it's essential to start that process from the position of already knowing that their traffic, when you get it, is going to be converted by your sales page. Otherwise what's the purpose of the whole exercise? :confused:

      You probably won't be able to get back any affiliates who try your product/service and discover that it doesn't convert their traffic, so you have to get this the right way round: proven conversions first (and you'll need a lot of traffic, to test everything) - then affiliates.

      "Getting affiliates to supply the traffic" is futile, without thoroughly and methodically testing every aspect of it yourself, first.



      Nope - I'm afraid this really isn't the way to look at it.



      It varies a lot from place to place. (There are a lot of services, some attracting good affiliates, at ClickBank, too, in addition to the places you mentioned.)

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      Thanks for the advice. I agree it would need to be tested to an extent. I've compared the site to the likes of a dating site (it's not a dating site) but it works like one in a sense that you need participation. If you start a dating site with no users then it is much harder to get someone to sign up. This website is very similar.

      Right now I'm just working through ideas and using affiliates popped in my mind as an option.
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  • Profile picture of the author ErinWalsh
    CJ might work for you. There are probably advertising and merchant setup feeds. Clickbank is another one you can use.
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    • Profile picture of the author CynthiaC
      CJ also has pay-per-call that you might be able to promote to affiliates as a little more incentive.

      Pay-per-call is like a CPA and might get more interest with affiliates.

      If you want to share the type of business we might be able to make more suggestions for you
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  • Profile picture of the author mikrodotnet
    Great read, thank you for the lols
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    • Profile picture of the author unclederek
      And you can always look into clicksure if your in need of high refund rates...

      ***Always room for one more lol***
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