ReviewMe Launches an affiliate program

Just a quick post to inform you that ReviewMe! has launched an affiliate program.

"Get $25.00 for every new advertiser you refer to ReviewMe who purchases a review that makes it to completion!"

Its a little disappointing that you don't get paid for referring publishers, like you do with Text Link Ads, but hey, that’s life. You can get a get a custom affiliate badge to use on your site if you want. So get referring!

Advertisers
- Get your Web site's products or services reviewed by related Web sites, and benefit from valuable exposure, feedback, and viral buzz.
- ReviewMe recently had a 50% off deal, chances are they will have one again!
- The ReviewMe! database only contains sites that are at least page rank 4 and that get a certain amount of traffic (you pick the site!).

Sign up to ReviewMe!

Affiliate Marketing - Behind the Links

Affiliate marketing has become a major source of revenue for lots of major sites. Buy WHY is this and why isn't EVERYONE being successful?

A simple answer would be that people often choose the wrong affiliate program. Unfortunately there is no single 'magical' affiliate program that spans every niche and can be used by everyone, although I think Text Link Ads comes pretty close. That's because it is for advertisers and publishers, which is just about everyone.

So, Text Link Ads is a good start, but what are it's pros + cons?

Cons

- High Entry Requirements for publishers (this is a con for publishers + affiliates...in the short term). For a publisher to be accepted their site must have a high enough Google Page Rank, enough traffic and must rank high enough in Alexa. This means at a lot of people who click your link and sign up still won’t make you a dime.

- For you to receive payment a publisher must install an advertising script for a minimum of seven days. Some publishers will fail in this department and again will earn you nothing.


Pros

- Commissions are high, you make $25 for every advertiser/publisher you successfully refer.

- Advertisers are much easier to refer. This is because TLA offers $100 in free links as a 'starter package' for advertisers, which gets them very, exited. Due to the high entry requirements for publishers the standard of websites available for advertisers is kept high, which is appealing. Also the wait for you to earn from advertisers you refer is just 24 hours after they purchase a link.

- Text Link Ads provide you with some well designed text links and banners that you can use for promotion like the one below:


So, thats a little about Text Link Ads. Remember if you are publisher and are rejected you can always make money using the affiliate program. If you were to make just 1 referral a day it would add up to $750 a month and that says it all really.

Adult Friend Finder

I am starting up a new blog at Adult Friend Finder Info. I am hoping it will become a major souce of revenue. Mike from Mikesmoneymakingmission has had earned over $300 using their affiliate program. So far my new blog is extremely undeveloped and I will be working on it allot this week. There is no need to panic, I will still be updating this blog daily as well! I have outlined on my new site how you can make money with Adult Friend Finder (and meet people online if you want to?). However my new site is more 'promotional' than this site. I will re-outline the earnings program here in a more down to earth way.

Every month Adult Friend Finder Pays out over $2,000,000 to their affiliates making their program the highest paying in the online personals industry. So there is a massive market. They make payments twice a month, on the 1st and 16th of the month providing you have earned the $50 minimum for payout. They have over 25 websites that you can promote to earn money. Mike found Adult Friend Finder (over 18s only) to be the most lucrative but you can chose to promote all 25 if you like. However, you cannot 'merge' your earnings together into one big happy check i.e. If you make $70 on ADULT Friend Finder and just $30 on Friend Finder you will only be sent $70 and have to wait till you reach over $50 with Friend Finder. It is up to you.

Commision Structure:

1. Pay Per click, the quickest and simplest of the 3. You earn up to $1 for each person who clicks on your link/banner. Payment rates change depending of the amount of traffic you send.

2. By Percentage of the earnings value, (50% - 70% depending on the volume and whether that person is making his/her first order or a recurring order.

3. A simple $30 payment what ever cost of the order.

Mike chose option 2 and has made no less than $306.26 with it.

There is the option of referring others. You earn 10% of the earnings of your referrals. This is really 'luck of the draw' and depends largly on the quality of your referral. Allow me to re-iterate, I have 7 Mylot referrals and 4 of them have never even posted and the 3 active ones have only made 53 posts between them. I am going to perserveer untill I get a highly active referral, and then KEEP going. Unfortunatly this applies for all affiliate programs!

Immediately after signing up I received a friendly welcome email and some banners. I have decided not to put any Adult Friend Finder banners on this site because it would over-clutter it and there isn't really a good place for them, also they are not really appropriate. There are some on my new blog over at Adult Friend Finder Info.

Become an Adult Friend Finder Affiliate

Affiliate Program Guide

I have created a new blog at Affiliateprogrammeguide.blogspot.com which believe it or not is a guide to affiliate programs. It is still in the very early stages and only contains reviews of the few affiliate programs that I actually support, but don't worry; soon there will be many many more reviews of other programs that I don't support. It will be a genuine guide centre with the intention of alerting people to scams and reassuring people about the genuine money makers. I will post about it again in a weeks time and you can all admire the wonderful progress I will have made.