Affiliate Question
 

Do you think it's best to sign up for a ton of affiliates? Or do you think it's best to pick a couple and push them ?

Love,
Jackie

I prefer to spread my traffic over a multiple sponsors. I push about a dozen sponsors fairly heavy and another two dozen to a bit lesser degree, and dozens more on a hit and miss basis. If most of them are CCBill programs then meeting minimum payouts is not an issue.

Pretty much what Toby said. Having multiple sponsors gives you more options and keeps you diversified. The problem is that there are often minimum payments so if cash flow is vital this can be a concern. Also having many sponsors means a lot more to keep up with.


Sort of common sense but say you made $1000.

Case 1:

You have Two sponsors.

Each owes you $500 and you have met their $100 minimum payout already and they will pay you within two weeks.


Case 2:

You have Fifty sponsors.

Each owes you $20 apiece and you have yet to receive a dime and don't have any idea when you will as you haven't made any of the 50 sponsor's minimum payment threshold!

Obviously these are unlikely but they give you an idea of what could happen and the issues to consider.

I have about 10 right now, some are mega sponsors with a dozen or more sites, some are single sites. I'm concentrating on 3 niches and I chose each sponsor in part because they cover a niche or they have good free content, or both.

Teen is easy. My sponsors there have good tools and lots of free content. Asian is a little less so, but still not bad. Goth is a little harder. There isnt a lot of sponsor content available, and two of the sites (suicide girls and god's girls) have little to none AND really restrict the words and pictures you can use on any page advertising their site.


I wanted to have suicide girls because of the name recognition, but I can't quite figure out how to advertise them. The same with GodsGirls. I also wanted to do some mild artistic softcore because I get sick of looking at hardcore all day. Right now I'm just using their banners on a blog, and I'm using the most softcore images of other sponsors (with those images specifically advertising their sponsor) to feed the blog. I wish they had better tools so I could limit the site to just those two sponsors.

Two blogs are written around single sponsors, but in both cases I've had to incorporate RSS feeds from other sponsors because the main one either didnt have any or the ones they have dont work with feedcache.

In one case, I chose a sponsor simply because their hosted video is a perfect match for blogs, being the correct size and easy to intergrate and lots of them.

For you, Jacklyn, it would probably be a little easier since you have your own content. I think in your case I'd limit the sponsors more and specifically go for the niche stuff you do (which is "babe" if I'm not mistaken.)

I know this probably didnt answer your question, but maybe it showed you a reason why you might use more sponsors rather than less in some cases.

You guys answered my questions quite well, thank you very much. And what a HUGE compliment that you put me in the 'babe' category. hehehehe. I'm more in the bondage area, and I have another site for foot fetish that I will be moving on soon here. But, fetish is definately my area.

I get tired of looking at hardcore all day long as well. But, I could look at latex and bondage forever. ;)

Love,
Jackie

Now why didn't I meet any girls like you when I was 25 years younger. :)

Thanks Toby!
And I don't know if you've noticed.............. but, there have been a couple days there where I've actually ended up on the front page of Bevy of babes!! :) Nice traffic from you there! Also, great traffic from dressingforsex.com !!

Anyone looking for a great traffic trade, I can highly recommend Toby's sites. :) Thanks! I will soon be adding my site bootgoddess.com to your Babes In Boots. Just working on it.

Love,
Jax

Great info! I was wandering same things regardind the number of sponsors:) Thanks.

I've always heard you should promote niches you like, too.

Toby nailed it -

On the test sites we've run we used about 7 different affiliates and only 3 niches we really found entertaining.

Awesome stuff, guys! Thank you again! Very helpful!

Love,
Jax