Quote:
Originally Posted by KillerK
Just most programs waste time with un-realistic payouts. Like $1 per lead but person has to upload a photo and confirm their email. That type of lead is worth a lot more then $1.
Or Dating programs that say we pay per lead, but you have to convert at better then 20 to 1 to get $2 a lead. Well that's $40 a sale, so you have to be a dumb affiliate to go for that type of deal.
|
$1 for photo uploaded for us,ca,au,uk that's too few, who offers this? Only a small % of users who register dating sites will upload a photo ever, they keep no-photo and just start contacting other gender people asking: "add me in WhatsApp, skype or fb and I'll send you my photos there". Try to register as a woman in a dating site and you'll see mostly no-photo guys begging for off-site contacts like this.
However, at least confirming email (doi, double opt-in) it is reasonable, why should a program pay $1+ for guys who fill a form and never come back to even login once? In our case, we count the cpa/ppl after user logged-in and stay 5 minutes at least, even if sends no messages or photos, but at least browsed 5 mins (even 2 mins today and 2 tomorrow, for ex.). Some call this "triple opt-in" but it's not as unreasonable as asking photo uploads or filling mega-forms about whole life etc.
About the pay user ratio as base of free signups payout, this may look odd and against the concept of free signups payout. Really, either as written or unwritten rules, if you're generating $100's of payable cpa/ppl signups and zero sales (let's say you're paid $300+ per sale), you'll get contacted by the program about the issue.
Depending on the program, they'll either 1) call you fraud - even you was no fraud - and don't pay you, 2) pay you the outstanding, but tell you that next signups will be paid less, you to choose if keep sending at lower rate or not; or 3) ask you no more to send signups at all, and either pay you the outstanding in full or reduced rate.
Trivia: more than 50% of the new affiliates who signup for our cpa/ppl offer, are trying to cheat. A minute ago, I catched one, was low tech: used server.com type of proxies rather than ISP's, and "thisisreallymymail.com" disposable emails. But some are pro, come from ISP ip's and most looking real, so if you're into cpa/ppl , which seems the most preferred way lately, you need solid way to discover fake signups, or cheaters rape you up to financial collapse.
Again, those rare affiliates who are good, big, honest will make it worth all the trouble of running an affiliate program in 2014. And at times some will read GFY, either having an account or (more frequently) landing there on some thread by google search.