Affiliates wish - or reality?

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We all see merchants advertising their offers through several affiliate networks, and the payout varies depending on where you go. I would like to see a search engine that would sift through the various affiliates networks' offers to find the highest payout (or other criteria). Sort of like the way the travel search engines like Orbitz or Kayak find you the best fares. As of now, I have to search the networks manually to find the best rates for each merchant.

Does this search engine exist?
 


I dont think there is one. The reason is because the merchants are registered at different networks so it will be hard to do it.
 
I was planing on doing it. I have over 115 cpa affiliate networks in my site and while going through them, I agree with you that some pay more than others, some have different offers than others, etc.

The thing is, I know it can be done, but it is just about getting time to do it, so I probably will not do it, lets just see how I feel and if I can get a few weeks of spare time. I most probably will not do it though, sorry.
 
Yeah but the tricky thing is that even if they are the same offer and one might pay more maybe it's the lower paying one the converts better due to the network it's on.
 
If the network uses direct track their is an API that might allow you to pull by network all offers and payouts and display them the way you want. However i am not positive if you can or not.

Also Xrproto makes the best point, even though one network pays higher doesnt mean its going to yield more for you. In AM you need to be more concerned with yield, i have heard some shady things that networks do from not firing pixels to actually scrubbing conversions out at night when no one is looking. And its not the small guys either i have heard stories of bigger well known networks doing it as well.
 
So true, I have used a few affiliate networks for a price comparison site that I have and I were trying to get the higher paying merchants from each network. By the time I worked it out, there were only about 3 merchant programs in all the networks together that paid different rates from the rest of the networks. So I was putting alot of work in for nothing really. These were for cps programs though and not cpa. These were also not from the cpa networks. They were from things like ShareASale, linkshare, etc.
 
mkrongel said:
If the network uses direct track their is an API that might allow you to pull by network all offers and payouts and display them the way you want. However i am not positive if you can or not.

Also Xrproto makes the best point, even though one network pays higher doesnt mean its going to yield more for you. In AM you need to be more concerned with yield, i have heard some shady things that networks do from not firing pixels to actually scrubbing conversions out at night when no one is looking. And its not the small guys either i have heard stories of bigger well known networks doing it as well.
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You have now got my heart racing 10 to the dozen. That can be a problem with working with affiliate programs compared to selling your own programs is that you can never totally really on the program if they are tracking fine or not. I always get emails from affiliate window and tradedoubler saying things like "so and so's tracking is not functioning properly and we are working with them to get it back up and functioning properly as soon as possible".

The networks doing what you said though is not fare at all as we are the ones that keep you in business really. Without use producing leads and sales to networks and affiliate programs everyones earnings from thes affiliate programs and sales will be minimal.
 
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