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Originally Posted by Toby
Please don't take this the wrong way, but I think you're jumping the gun a bit pushing an affiliate program at this point. I see this all the time. Put up a web site, and just a short time later launch an affiliate program.
I specialize in promoting single girl amateur sites, and many of the things I look for in affiliate program sites, you don't have because your site simply hasn't been around long enough.
Since your 50% recurring revshare, like most solo amateur sites, I want to know that the site is going to retain members. That means alot of member area content, something that can't be built up in just a few months.
I want to know that my traffic is going to a tour that has been well tested, tweaked and fined tuned, so that it converts well. This is something that takes some time and some trial and error.
My advice is to spend your time and energy fine tuning your tour, building member area, content, and take time to join some other affiliate programs to get an idea of what you should be offering. For example, I don't want to have to contact the webmaster to get access to promo content. Access should be sent as soon as I've signed up, with perhaps a short delay for verification. The more organized the content the better. Make it easy to find hosted galleries (with affiliate codes already inserted), downloadable zips, banners of assorted sizes, etc. The less time I have to spend getting the promo materials, the more time I can spend promoting your site.
An affiliate program can be very lucrative, but there's alot more to it than just putting up a signup page and providing a handful of promo galleries.
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No offense taken at all, man! That's why I'm here -- you certainly know these sorts of things better than I do, and I appreciate your honesty.
See, the email sent out by CCBill contains a link to the page that lists all my hosted galleries, I was going to make .zip files of all the promotional content available upon request... Now I'm thinking that I'll just put all of it on the same page, but instead of going the "security through obscurity" route and hoping the random surfers don't stumble across it, I'll secure it with a .htaccess file and send a username/password in the CCBill email... That way my affiliates can function a bit more autonomously. Does that sound a little more feasable?
And I know I'm too new to really be of interest to any serious affiliate -- I've done a lot of reading, as though I were aiming to be an affiliate myself. I just figure it's better to have the program out there and available, just in case... I've had a little bit of downtime this week, so I figured I'd start setting up and doing a little homework on it. I'm not expecting miracles, and I know I'm really just building up.