Question re Dating Offer: 5 orders, but show zero commissions?

[JerseyGirl]

What's up with this?

According to my network (LinkShare) I've produced five orders, but made zero commissions.

Granted, this is a new site, a new promotion, and these have all occurred this week.

Is there something I'm not aware of or not doing?

 

[jelf]

hmm linkshare and dating

 

[Priority_Mail90]

Try going to the more advanced reports, if it's the quick view thing it's generally a buggy piece of shit (I've found).

 

[MyOwnDemon]

Sometimes, certain offers will only pay you per sale (not lead). Maybe, you have generated 5 leads, which is what you are seeing - but they weren't sales which is why you didn't earn any commision.

I don't use linkshare, but that would be my guess.

 

[JerseyGirl]

Sometimes, certain offers will only pay you per sale (not lead). Maybe, you have generated 5 leads, which is what you are seeing - but they weren't sales which is why you didn't earn any commision.

I don't use linkshare, but that would be my guess.

Thanks. You turned out to be very close to the truth. (And, BTW, your avatar could give me nightmares).

I think what happened is that the orders signed up for a free trial period of 7 days.

But, here's the n00bie rub.

After that free trial period of 7 days, if they sign up, there is nothing in the contract to say that (in this case) Chemistry.com has to give me the referral. In fact, there is no indication how long the cookies last or how many days the return.

Bah!

Shoulda done my homework.

But, let this be a lesson for other affiliate newbs, too. Read the F'IN TERMS.

 

[ldsmedia]

Yeah and there are other ways for affiliates to get screwed as well. Always make sure your aff id is in your link and think twice about offers where they encourage visitors to call rather than click.

 

[xmcp123]

To help you gauge free to paid signups, typically based on traffic quality you will get 1:15(good ratio) to 1:40+(bad ratio). Varies a lot by program and traffic source.

 

[smaxor]

Depending on your traffic source I've found 80% of the time it makes more sense to use a pay per lead system. But again depends on the traffic source as you can do really well if you traffic is super targeted to the exact offer. That's doing small optimizations though. I typically stick with the pay per lead as that allows me to focus on getting more traffic. And not optimizing all the time to try and make an extra buck.

As I've moved forward in this affiliate marketing world I've started to care less about an extra couple bucks and much much more about consistency. Predictability and consistency really frees me up for spending time on growing more and more traffic streams. There's nothing worse then constantly having to move your traffic around and constantly have to be focusing on an offer. If you spend time where you should, gaining more traffic, that will typically make you a lot more in the long run. Don't get me wrong I'm not saying not to optimize just spend much less time on that and much more and getting traffic. Pay Per Sale aka PPS brings a whole new metric into your conversion equation and I'd move away from that especially in the beginning of your career.

Just my tibits from experience, hope it helps.

 

[ffblueocean]

if possible, don't use 3rd parties like CJ. yes, most websites only going through linkshare/cj however some sites offer there own affiliate program direct and they pay more.