Comments on: 4 Affiliate Programs I Should Not Have Promoted

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Text-Link-Ads Affiliate Program Sucks | Everybody Go To — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 13:52:25 +0000

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By: Blogging Tips

Blogging Tips — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 23:27:23 +0000

yeah ive noticed a few sponsored posts/reviews on here. I was just curious how many reviews you’ve gotten directly for 150$

By: Ali

Ali — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 16:20:51 +0000

Wow! I’m glad I removed them after only after having signed up 15. It sucks to see all that money in your dashboard, money that you will probably never get.

Either something they have a broken affiliate system, or people just sign up for the heck of it have a look inside the marketplace and change their mind. For which, I don’t blame them.

By: swollenpickles

swollenpickles — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 14:28:39 +0000

PayPerPost has the most disappointing affiliate program. I can’t believe that of the 30+ referrals I currently have, not one has passed the “pending” status. Something has to be wrong with that surely?

By: mercutiom

mercutiom — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 04:22:03 +0000

Most of my adds are through the commission junction system. With their services I’m able to select companies whose ads match that of my site. My one complaint is that many of the ads are moving .gif images, which do draw the eye, but are really annoying.

I’m curious, what affiliate programs or ad servers would you suggest?

By: soufulow

soufulow — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 02:45:58 +0000

You’re right. Wasting time on useless affiliate program is deadly sins – knowing what not to do is equally important with what to do.

I once stucked on a Forex education program that pay HUGE commissions per sale. The commissions seems sweet but was never turn into real money as the merchant hardly convert any traffics into customers.

By: James Wilcox

James Wilcox — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 19:51:20 +0000

ReviewMe wouldn’t accept my blogs because of traffic levels, although I don’t know how they judge that seeing as I have a PR 3 on one blog and an alexa ranking of under 2 million on another…I don’t know what their criteria is. I was however, able to join their affiliate program and have had zero success with that.

I also signed up for sponsored reviews…nada on that one too.

With Agloco I got my friend to sign up, but he doesn’t use the toolbar at all…so there goes that plan.

Text link ads has been less than stellar. I don’t know if it’s because of my traffic, my content, or the lack of advertisers willing to have links on my blogs…who knows!

That being said, Adsense is also a poor performer.

My general feeling is that during the summer for whatever reason, people just don’t click ads…either they are outside too much or they just aren’t web surfing. We’ll see how it goes in the winter.

By: Ali

Ali — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 17:59:05 +0000

Via sponsored reviews I’ve had a few. Not any via PPP Direct, as I’ve just updated that price. It used to be $40 before as an introductory price. The price is for direct review offers. I usually write over 400+ words for these opps along with images, screenshots even signing up for services if I need to, for the review to be as in depth as possible.

If I see an opp. in sponsored reviews or the payperpost marketplace with a minimum of $30 – $50 for 100 – 200 words and it is something that I like, plus I know that my readers will like, I will blog about it.

By: Blogging Tips

Blogging Tips — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 17:11:49 +0000

how many reviews have you sold at 150$?