Hello there wdsguy, how are you?
I´m looking into the CCBill admin right now, and I did find a few affiliates with horrible ratios, as of course ALL PROGRAMS have.
What I can say about this situation is that if I look at my stats and consider as our actual ratios the affiliates that send us 80% of our sales volume, our program has a ratio of 1:603. HONESTLY. I just calculated that, a minute ago, right after I read your post.
Why do I consider this as the actual ratio and not the ratio that ccbill shows, with the average of all affiliates?
Because we have around 1,5% of our affiliates with completely out of the pattern ratios: One has 0:13000. One has made only one sale with 11000 hits. One made 1 sale on 8950 hits. One has made 4 sales with a 1:4400 ratio, one has 1 sale on a 1:4439 ratio and one sent 4084 clicks with no sales at all.
My guess (I´m pretty sure actually) is that you are one of those guys. (Whats your affiliate ID BTW?)
What can have happened?
1) You got listed at some place like The Hun and received a shitload of "not-so-good for teen sites" clicks. It´s not hard to figure out The Hun type of traffic is not your favorite type of traffic for a site like 18Honeys.
2) Your traffic sources are really bad. (We can give you a list of around 100 teen TGPs that will help you a lot to promote teen sites efficiently).
3) Plain and simple: It may be bad luck.
As Ross said, Its a Dickmans Design site. And here we don´t care only about beauty. We care about Return on Investment for our clients and conversions for their affiliates. With a paysite we run, it wouldnt be different.
18Honeys IS a KICKASS teen paysite. I would never run anything in my life that is far from outstanding. Our team is hardworking and talented, and nothing that comes out of Dickmans will be low quality. Ever. I promiss that to anyone reading this.
So, what can we do about your situation?
Contact us with your Affiliate ID. To all people that have ratios out of the pattern, we have sent emails or iCQ messages to offer help. Not everyone replies though. We want everyone to do well after all. And I want to help YOU too to get better ratios.
Thanks for your time reading, and next time, please don´t hesitate on contacting us. We have contact info (email + icq + msn) of three people (me, Milena and Thiago), and we do reply to everyone that contacts us. No needs for Drama.
Take care and kind Regards,
Bruno Dickman