Aprout
30-12-2005 22:30:43
What exactly are affiliates and affiliate programs?
How do they work?
What are the good ones?
Gigante
31-12-2005 09:24:07
If you dont even know what they are, why you asking for a good one?
And if you don't even know what they are, you shouldn't be allowed to know.
Aprout
31-12-2005 10:47:37
I think I have a pretty good idea of what they are, but all of the descriptions on websites that say they are affiliate programs are pretty ambiguous and make you sign up for stuff. Its not like a want to start a fucking site, I just like to know how things work. I wanted to know what the good ones were so I could maybe find a good description. You know your right, I guess it does seem like information that people shouldnt be allowed to know and thanks for all of your help.
VrExe
31-12-2005 10:51:40
Well the thing is. If you really like to know how things work, maybe you would be more deligent to go find a dictionary and look it up? And there are no good or bad affiliation. It all depends on what you like, what you can do, and how you can do it.
Aprout
31-12-2005 11:27:57
There is a lot more to diligence then just going to a dictionary and looking things up. Anyway it is not like if I'm willing to sit around on this forum and listen to people tell me why they won't answer my quesiton that I would not do research on my own... Especially going to a dictionary. This is what wikipedia says http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affiliate_marketing. Still doesn't explain that much and either do many of the websites, so I was hoping that someone here could. All I wanted to know how the sites that I am doing offers on actually run, not the meaning of diligence or what information I deserve to know.
VrExe
31-12-2005 12:29:38
www.dictionary.com
n. (--t, -t)
A person, organization, or establishment associated with another as a subordinate, subsidiary, or member network affiliates.
affiliation-
An organization that is related to another organization through some type of control or ownership. For example, a U.S.-based company may have a foreign affiliate that handles overseas sales.
Ditionary can help you live through university.
Basically if u understand that, you'd know how it works.
ilanbg
31-12-2005 12:45:33
Fucking fools.
An affiliate program is designed to attract customers. A company, such as Netflix, pays money to affiliate companies, such as clickbooth. When you sign up through clickbooth, Netflix pays them about $20 and hopes to make a new customer.
In other words, if you keep the subscription running, then everyone wins.
Netflix --> Clickbooth --> You/customer --> Netflix
Circle of life and all that shit.
Admin
31-12-2005 13:15:50
You should understand that there are hundreds of permutations here.
In ilan's example, you can replace netflix with an adware download or survey or signup that pays only, say, $1.50 or even less. Clickbooth, in his example, can be any of the literally dozens of affiliate networks out there. A lot of them cater to a specific kind of advertiser (MetaReward tends to have mid-high payouts and instant closed loop reporting; both staples of a successful incentivized site. CommissionJunction caters more towards non-incentives and that is reflected in their software). There's also other middlemen - for example, SearchCactus runs their own affiliate network just like ClickBooth or any other, except that they pull all of their offers from OTHER affiliate networks. So in ilan's example the chain would look something like Netflix -> MetaReward -> SearchCactus -> Publisher (i.e. website owner) -> User -> Netflix. As the chain gets larger, each middleman takes his cut and that reduces the final value of the commission for the given signup. As such, the goal of any incentive site owner is to locate the affiliate networks that have negotiated the highest rates with the advertisers (i.e. netflix) AND who have the lowest cut, which means higher profits for you.