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What affiliate tools do you folks find most useful in todays market?
The reason I ask... I do spend a lot of time at the zoo, I am quite used to the demands of affiliates over there. Fact is, Greenguys Board has always been of a different crowd. Here we have a lot of Linklist, Tgp, and bloggers. Freesite and gallery submitters etc. So downloadable content and custom banners, templates, creatives etc. is a given... meanwhile the zoo likes tube clips, fhg's, peel ads, social widgets, morphing rss feeds etc. What is converting for the affiliates these days? Thank you for your replies :) |bananna| |
Member access, RSS feeds, decent banners
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1) A site tour that converts
2) A member area that retains 3) Regularly updated FHGs, and by regular I mean at least monthly and in a quantity roughly equivalent to the average number of site updates during that same interval. Short of that, access to the member area to get content to build my own galleries. That's it, I can do the rest myself. |
Please be sure to offer a NON-MORPHING version of your RSS feeds with well-written NON-SPUN text or there are of lot of webmasters here who will never, ever use them.
In case you'll ask "but why?".... here are some reasons. http://www.greenguysboard.com/board/...21&postcount=2 http://www.greenguysboard.com/board/...0&postcount=10 http://www.greenguysboard.com/board/...8&postcount=22 http://www.greenguysboard.com/board/...11&postcount=2 http://www.greenguysboard.com/board/...30&postcount=4 http://www.greenguysboard.com/board/...9&postcount=21 http://www.greenguysboard.com/board/...27&postcount=8 HTH :) |
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Now... about RSS feeds. What style is best? Gallery style with a video or a series of pics? Or editorial style with a thumb and links to the gallery and tour? Or even other ideas? My examples of affiliate tools are industry-wide, we are trying to keep it simple. Offer the most useful tools. |
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I add this code to all images so that they fit within my blog's page. So bigger is fine but not a bunch of little thumbs. Code:
style="display:block;margin-top:4px;margin-right:auto !important;margin-bottom:4px;margin-left:auto;max-width:538px;border:solid 2px black;" A paragraph or two of text is good. On some of my blogs I use it as a starting point to write something of my own. Others I have Blogs Automater morph the text. |
Thank you Cleo, and others.
I am beginning to wrap up our current tools. When I took over this project there were many things wrong and still several things to tweak. Seems like a never-ending process. With progress being made i am ready to start adding new content. I am really focusing on what affiliates are using these days because a lot of tools came out because of some fading or passing internet fad. While many tools can still be useful and used in different ways by creative affiliates, some are just more important or more useful. Mobile has ecome a big deal, and html5 as well. These are all things taken into account when thinking of new ways to distribute our content. Both for affiliates and members areas. |
access to videos from members area and my own tools.
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RSS feeds:
Ideally "chatty text" that does not only advertise the site but also interests the surfer. Thumbnails that go to a bigger version of that one picture, but with a site ad beneath it (like an old school picpost) or to a page with an embedded video that INCLUDES THE SCENE IN THE PHOTO, also above an ad for the site. Definitely NO blind links (e.g. thumbnails that go directly to the tour). Free Hosted Galleries: Include free hosted thumbnails to use as links (like AEBN). Offer ACCURATE pre-written gallery descriptions for text TGPs. Ideally both long (sentence or two) and short (five words or less), but most important is accuracy and detail, i.e. NOT "Teen naked and wanting a fuck." But "Jane (18) strips naked on the bed." Include the option of downloading the gallery list with our choice of delimiter (I prefer pipe, because that is what my scripts expect, but others go for tabs, commas, or quotes, so we need the choice). |
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http://www.sponsors-site.com/galleries/gallery1009?id=ecchi|Sarah tied naked to a tree in the woods or (depending on whether it is a text link or thumbnail link TGP): http://www.sponsors-site.com/galleries/gallery1009?id=ecchi|http://www.sponsors-site.com/thumbnails/thumb1009.jpg That way I can just upload the list to my server and let the script do the rest! |
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I am taking EVERYTHING said here into consideration! Please let me know what is, or can be hot for affiliates in TODAYS industry. |thumb |
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But you replied way too honestly!!!!
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Sounds like a good think to do (about request system) - I'd check it out but: > I have rich history (10 years long) of personal dislike about ccbill based affiliate programs, and not just because stats takes some MINUTES to load... was using many sponsors in past and wasn't pleased - also my friend did for a couple of last years and when I've seen ratios (mostly se traffic) we've decided to drop all of them. It's sad because I see so much nice sites working just on ccbill, what a waste... Simply doing so much better with nats that has cascade billing and at least one alternative to ccbill. > I go for partnerships so my rule is to rather stay away from sponsors that don't give user trial option. > Don't touch nothing that's not updated daily - don't know about your sites. Don't want to be rude - just two things above says no anyway. |
I'm just the opposite. I prefer CCBill over NATS. At least with CCBill I don't have amounts below the minimum payout sitting in a sponsor’s bank account.
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Don't want to start another "to ccbill or not" discussion, I'm happy that it works for you. I personally tried polish and english cc's on it and they didn't go through - surprisingly italian "postapay" card went (which is from italian post bank) and I was able to enjoy all of the burningangel girls for some times, some porn just draws me in :D
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StinkyPink - I looked on their site & then searched a name in their recomendations & found this program:
http://loveamateurscash.com/ It really doesn't look like anything special - kinda bland. Hell, there's not even a dump option for the hosted galleries: http://loveamateurscash.com/tools/galleries/ From an affiliate POV, CCBTools looks MUCH better. |
I also see they have a recomendation from "Swirls Bucks" and when you google that, they only thing I can find is a parked domain - http://www.swirlsbucks.com/ - which can't be good for a recommendation lol
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