As for the long overdue answer to your question, Ty, you might consider setting up a program on Commission Junction, though you will need at least $6000 to get started. If your site isn’t already performing at a level where this makes sense, could design your own tracking system and offer the program independently.

Tony

As for the long overdue answer to your question, you will have t owait until the cj cookie expires to accurately judge your EPC, but most of the commissions – for most programs – do usually come within the first few days. There are some exceptions, like eBay, which take longer because commissns are tied to sales and sales are delayed until the end of a bidding process. My advice is to turn the program off, and wait until the referal period expires on all your traffic to calculate EPC. Remember, the EPC commission Junction reports is an average across a variety of websites, newsletters, and search programs, and your EPC will be a lot higher or lower far more often than it will match that average.

Tony

I’m sorry to have taken so long to answer your question. I’ve been working on a project (I thought would be done over a month ago) and it’s sort of pushed everything else out of my mind. It’s a website, designed myself, on the cheap, that I hope will prove there is still a lot of money to be made online, without spending a lot, and without having an enourmous amount of expertise to start with (though you will have to learn some things as you go). The best part about it is, for those of you who don’t want to develop your own site, there will be plenty of opportunity for you to earn money on MY site. I’ll be letting everyone know about it soon, on this blog, and in the newsletter, by the way.

As for the long overdue answer to your question, yes, the industry has changed. Yes, almost none of the big programs allow direct search now, and precious few of the small to mid ones. And yes, I do recommend aquiring some basic web design skills, and set up a content based site to market various affiliate programs.

Tony

As for the long overdue answer to your question, I only recommend purchasing existing sites with traffic as a means of driving traffic to casino programs cheaply (cheaply is important because the conversion rates are not high). If you think you have the web design skills to create an effective page comparing/pitching multiple casino programs, I say go for it.

As for the keyword links, I am not sure whether CJ still uses those, but I do know that a small number of programs do still allow direct search, but that number is shrinking.

Tony

As for the long overdue answer to your question, I have a question first. Are these sites generating US traffic? If so, that is the problem, right there. By law, they cannot -and will not – pay a commission on US members.

Tony

I’m sorry to have taken so long to answer your question. I’ve been working on a project (I thought would be done over a month ago) and it’s sort of pushed everything else out of my mind. It’s a website, designed myself, on the cheap, that I hope will prove there is still a lot of money to be made online, without spending a lot, and without having an enourmous amount of expertise to start with (though you will have to learn some things as you go). The best part about it is, for those of you who don’t want to develop your own site, there will be plenty of opportunity for you to earn money on MY site. I’ll be letting everyone know about it soon, on this blog, and in the newsletter, by the way.

As for the long overdue answer to your question, I’m afraid I need more info. Why do you want to capture tese emails? Where are you linking too? What is the focus of your site (revenue wise)?

T

Tony

In this situation, which has become increasingly common, you need to have a website of your own to run the affiliate program ad on. You would then use search marketing to drive traffic to your own site, where they would have the opportunity to click on the affiliate ad.

This is a more difficult model to make work, but you can be successful. Dating services, online degree information programs, and other programs where people often select more than one program work well.

Tony

Nothing more for me to add.

Tony

To answer your question, once you got the website up and running you need to submit your site to search engines. Most web hosting service should provide this service for free. If not, google it. Don’t pay money for this. It usually takes 2 weeks for the search engine to rank your site but it certainly can take more than that. Before you submit your site you should at least have the tag fill out in your HTML. Don’t submit to the search engine again and again very often, you should submit your site only if there are new content added to your site.

If what I wrote still sounds like foreign language to you or you have more questions, please feel free to email me at yx@pinnacledesigncenter.com

Best,
Yvonne Xu