Affiliate marketing - is it for you?
Hey all, we are evaluating the prospect of a full fledged affiliate network on IndiBlogger. An extension of IndiWallet if you will. If you have had some experience of an advantage or disadvantage of using affiliates on your blog, do let us know as it will help us understand if and how you want to use it.
Neither I've enough hits/day which might suffice the criterion of affiliate marketing, nor do I love seeing banners clattering my "neat and clean" top space (or even side space for that matter). For my situation I would say affiliate marketing sucks!
I am getting two units of these plus two batteries. That's $170. Thanks to affiliate earnings, i can get it redeemed as gift certificates and now I am getting it almost for free. Its not free. The site did earn it. But its a gift card so...its "phree".
Dear Anoop,
I normally avoid affiliate marketing programs unless they offer sure shot benefit and are not too tedious to follow, coordinate and communicate. Some of my blog/otherwise experience were-
1) It gets tricky a lot of time
2) Too many contradictory promotions diluting the objectivity
3) Data extraction and optimisation are tedious and mostly manual leading to dissatisfaction
4) If the product/service/process observes a flaw which may be due to normal operational risks, the bloggers/ concerned person gets the beating and bad name
5) Issues in synchronisation as in how the click lands, talks to servers, fulfils the order and lots more
The process needs to be objectively scrutinised, analysed in real time basis. Do let me know if I can be of any help.
Aah.I think it also depends on what kind of content a website has as well. Typically, I've seen review websites using affiliates. I use it at the last page of my reviews (Amazon US, UK, India, Flipkart India and Newegg US) and in specification database. Order being fulfilled/issues with seller, etc. is between Amazon, the dealer, maybe the manufacturer and the buyer.
how i can add my webiste to affliate network this is my website http://www.encyclopaediaoftinyfacts.com
As per forum rules pls dont post ur blog links here. its classified under shameless self promotion
I have been using Amazon, Snapdeal and Flipkart affiliates. I feel the framework of Amazon is more robust and mature than its counter parts. I would rate Snapdeal second and Flipkart is just average and lot of incorrect affiliate reports. I also noticed Amazon got better conversion ratio than other two.
I have tried affiliate marketing...did not work for me...people are smart...if they want to buy something on amazon they just go to the site, search what they want and buy...it seldom happens that people come across a product accidently and go on to buy it...
To the people who say they dont get any earnings from affiliate marketing, do anyone of you guys even cross 6-8k pageviews per day? Mostly non-bloggers and mostly from search engines? If anything lesser, then don't think affiliate marketing is going to help you out. If your content is not based on something to help people in making purchase decisions of any kind, forget about it. Intentionally saying a bad product is good without a vindicated writeup, forget about earning from affiliates and be more worried about losing credibility. Readers read from more than one website before buying anything and take user reviews into account. Both are very important and it takes time. This is the usual mistake SEO bloggers do, when they lure in newbie bloggers to tempt them to spend on something they wouldnt need until they reach a certain point.
Even 6-8k pageviews per day wont get you everyday affiliates sales, but that's when you observe affiliate sales. something 5$. Sometimes 65$. Sometimes $12. Once a month. once in two months.
Affiliate marketing ho to add with Adsense newswap.online this is my blo
Sign in to reply to this thread
