Do hosting affiliates make that much per click?

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I have never really promoted hosting much since its too competitive, but it made me thinking. For instance I logged into shareasale and see the top hosting company's EPC (100) is 800$ (even 2000$+ for the last 7 days!). Average order is 200$ and average commisnion of 25% is 50$. So with 8$/click its like you get 1 sale in only about 6 clicks... Its hrdly believable, how can you make 1 hosting sale every 6 clicks?

All the other companies listed bellow has more realistic EPC's of 100$ or less.

Whats your experience as hosting affiliate?
 


If affiliates makes that much host makes even more, so yes you are right.

PS: Why the hell somebody negative rep me for the thread lol
 
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if you have a site with webmaster/internet marketing/make money online traffic, pushing hosting is a natural fit. They're not a great host at all, but $97 per referral from DreamHost was quite nice. I think HostGator might pay more but I haven't tried them.
 
Those epc maybe for 1000 clicks, or may show some other stat which also EPC but not counted like your usual. I have seen such cases, ask shareasale about it, not us.
 
seolinker said:
Those epc maybe for 1000 clicks, or may show some other stat which also EPC but not counted like your usual. I have seen such cases, ask shareasale about it, not us.
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I specificly wrote: EPC(100)
Shareasale's EPC is based on 100 clicks, not 1000 :)

And what should I ask shareasale lol. I am interested what hosting affiliates has to say not shareasale.
 
I have sent thousands of clicks to hosting affiliate links from my webdevelopment related sites ( back when I was actively developing those sites, now traffic has lowered a lot ).

Sales are not that frequent, you're selling to developers, designers etc, people that is very near the web marketing industry, they're way above the average user and very often understand which are ads and which are not.

I even built a web hosting affiliate site, but never marketed it. Seo competition is extremely high and dominated by a rather small number of players ( with huge networks of websites ).
Then I started other projects and this site is actually collecting dust atm.

That said you can always be creative with web hosting, think out of the box: commissions are very good, if you have a product that needs a hosting account and you market it to the right people, you can probably make a ton from hosting commissions.

I suppose this is where a big part of hosting commissions come from.
 
I made a lot of money as a hosting affiliate (and later with my own hosting company) by starting free hosting companies which would push upgrades to paid hosting.

You're definitely not going to get 1 in 6 signups, but free hosting traffic is dirt cheap (usually free) and paid hosting conversions are decent so it is pretty easy to make a free hosting website that is profiting each month.

If anybody here wants to get started doing something like that PM me (or AIM me) and I can help you out. Free hosting is the first niche I ever got into and I know a lot about the business.
 
cardine said:
If anybody here wants to get started doing something like that PM me (or AIM me) and I can help you out. Free hosting is the first niche I ever got into and I know a lot about the business.
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Hi, sent you some questions via PM, if you can answer any of them I would appreciate that.
 
Made mad dough back in the day, when competition was slim. Now I wouldn't touch it with your dick!
 
HostGator pays a lot if you get a decent amount of signups. I had a little thing going and I may be wrong but I think I ended up with over $100 / signup. You're allowed to use coupon codes to promote it too so you can get paid that much on a free trial. They have to rebill, but that's even if they have the cheap virtual plan.

Hosting is like anything recurring I guess. With their long term customers they stand to make a whole lot of money so they'll give those payouts.
 
A lot of those hosters already have million of customers, making it easy for them to offer such high commissions, even if they don't earn back there investment right away. Makes it very hard for new hosters to compete though.
 
With SAS, you have to consider the volume. If you sort by powerrank, some of the high-flying hosters drop off. Could be the first person who jumped on brand bidding that set off the EPC and nobody else but that guy is referring sales.

Not like it really matters, but if they stay on the powerrank, you could do a quick traffic check and guess who their best affiliates are. Often the top ones for a host are someone who sells a complex script to less experienced webmasters which requires hosting.
 
There is definitely money to be made in the web hosting affiliate market. I've been both an affiliate myself and an affiliate manager for the largest hosting brands. The competition is fierce, but they payouts are very high and there is a LOT of money to be made if you do it right.

Also to those who say to be the host... Most hosting companies are paying out $100+/sale (equivalent to 1-2 years of service) and you don't have to handle any support, server management, billing, marketing, 3am phone calls cause their email isn't working, etc. The affiliates have it pretty good in the hosting market, with the hosts taking a loss on the sale for the first couple of years and banking on renewals.
 
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