Advice on building our affiliate program

[DRC]

I'm done with the FHG.

A few notes that may be usefull to others:

Following the instruction from UW to the letters did not work on my server. The problem seem to come from the edition of the .htaccess file.

When I added the lines in the .htaccess file it kind of mess up the files type and the browsers (IE, Firefox & Chrome) where all trying to download the index.htm page insteand of displaying it.

I'm sure it is something related to the server setup but instead of starting on the great Help-Desk hunt at my provider I decided to copy the content of the index(s) files into new index.php files and bingo it worked like a charm. It takes about 5 more second per galleries but since we are such a young program we don't have that many galleries yet.

But the code provided by UW is working great in the galleries files.

My next little improvement projet will be to create the form that can generate all those links for the affiliates.

Thanks again UW. You really made my day.

[Useless]

Originally Posted by DRC

When I added the lines in the .htaccess file it kind of mess up the files type and the browsers (IE, Firefox & Chrome) where all trying to download the index.htm page insteand of displaying it.

I've heard of that happening in similar situations, but I can't recall the reason.

Originally Posted by DRC

Thanks again UW. You really made my day.

You're welcome, and I'm happy to hear that it's working. I put that little bit of code together from things I've learned on this board and from building hosted free sites with GG, so it makes sense to share the results whenever possible. I'm eventually going to create a PHP/mySQL backend to make adding hosted galleries an easier process, but I haven't really had reason to work on that just yet. The whole idea was to have a generic linking framework that wouldn't be effected when/if I finally build a user-friendly interface to automate the process or create additional features.

By the way, I'm not a coder. I'm just a guy with limited focus and lots of duct tape.

[Telly]

My advice is to focus on getting your own promotions going and let the affiliate stuff follow. Work the search engines, submit your own galleries, and setup blogs targeted towards your own niche market and work the link trades; try to get as many cleans sales as possible because that's where a good deal of your revenue stream will come from. Post promo content and photos on the correct forums for your niche and start to network with people you meet on the boards.

When affiliates start to see a site or program that's beginning to take off they tend to jump on board much easier than you trying to coax them. Be sure to keep your promo content up to date and watch for traffic leaks. Look into sweet things like morphing feeds which allow affiliates to create blog posts with minimal effort and test their traffic's receptiveness of your content; the easier it is to promote the better.

easy to promote > actually promote > actually convert > actively promote

Best of luck to you and I hope to see DomRealCash hit 99+ rebills in the future !

[DRC]

Thanks for your comments Kelly

Our in-house promo is getting off the ground nicely and the sales are starting to pile up.

December is probably not the best month to lauch a new program but we are please with the result so far.

As for the promo tools, we have new galleries (pic and video) every week and we are working on some RSS feeds for bloggers.

Any other ideas are welcome.

Thanks again for the comments.

[Telly]

Originally Posted by DRC

Thanks for your comments Kelly

Our in-house promo is getting off the ground nicely and the sales are starting to pile up.

December is probably not the best month to lauch a new program but we are please with the result so far.

As for the promo tools, we have new galleries (pic and video) every week and we are working on some RSS feeds for bloggers.

Any other ideas are welcome.

Thanks again for the comments.

No prob. Btw its Telly. |king|