advice ideas? new guy to affilaites, 1 mil + visitors/month accross 4,000+ domains

**chungju4** · 31-05-05

hey guys im thinking of starting some affiliate stuff. but i would be doing it a different way from you. i dont make sites or pay for traffic through ppc.

i have my own source of traffic from thousands of type in domains. (1 million uniques + a month) last few years i been redirecting it to sponsored links -
(eg. other people that do this, -ultsearch.com, about.co.uk, bbcweather.co.uk).

quite profitable, and i only need to care about clicks. i.e. 65% of people click on a link at cheapflghts.com - i get £0.30 a click. very easy. sponsored links is much better than affiliate for this category since u only get like £2 per flight booking as opposed to £0.30 per click.

for some domains though it might be more profitable doing affiliates. example loans pay around £1-2 a click. but i saw on cj some loan companies paying £60 per application. If i own alot of very targeted domains and traffic to that category, im thinking it would have high conversion rate. - so maybe affiliate stuff would earn more.

Anyone want to help me get set me up or have any ideas/suggestions ?. i have seen some affiliates redirecting domains to deep linked, affiliate pages. could i do this also ?

i'd rather do a custom deal than go through the normal sign up process to the big networks.
i got one loan company , wanting to do a cpa deal on some loan traffic.

**Lee_Owen** · 31-05-05

Just an idea, but if you're not reliant on search engine traffic and only URL type ins. Why not set up your own landing directory pages, this way you no longer get the .03p and .30p click throughs or £1 and £2 sales, but via your own directly, get full commission due on sales and possible google and overture clicks.

I'm sure you could pick up a free directory script from somewhere.

**zaq** · 31-05-05

Hi chungju4,

As you have "thousands of type in domains" i would join greasypalm.co.uk affiliate program for long term income.
Greasypalm are a cash back shopping site and offer 45% revenue share earn you residual commissions on all members repeat sales and every member you refer is tagged for life as yours on there database.So all you have to do is link the domain names to there pages with your affiliate link.

GreasyPalm Partner Program: http://www.greasypalm.co.uk/partner/

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**chungju4** · 31-05-05

yeh i do that i think unless i misunderstood what you mean. all my traffic is already directed to individual landing pages with the relevant keywords, - at 0.10- £2 a click depending on keyword. - example banking.co.uk using an espotting sponsored feed, for the keywords banking. i do this for thousands of domains.

im curious if , its possible to just forward to domains, as an affiliate, rather than just making a page with banners etc. i assume if u buy traffic from ppc, then it is just a redirect with tracking id to the merchant site ?

so i could just do it that way ?

how would i find out who the 'big affiliate people' are to make some direct contracts and negotiate ? i looked at the affiliate merchants on the networks. i have brand traffic for every merchant listed just about.

i saw a guy doing this on dgm. willamhill.co.uk points at a william hill affiliate ? how easy is it to set that kind of thing up ? im not concerned with any legal things, and have been used to that for years.

the only thing i need to consider, is if my current method of monetising traffic is less than what i could get as an affiliate. signing up for all those affiliate programs for each domain might be tedious though.

**Lee_Owen** · 31-05-05

What I was getting at, was if you redirect to a page owned by a third party i.e. sedo.co.uk then you'll get a fraction of what's deserved but if you did it yourself, you'd get full whack.

With regards to the willhill, just set up web forwarding. Sign up to the merchant on a network or their inhouse program, take the affiliate link and redirect the index page.

**chungju4** · 31-05-05

yeh, actually ive had direct feeds, with the search companies -
findwhat, espotting, and google.

the thing is, u have to negotiate your rev share with them.
sedo uses a google feed. they have so much traffic they can negotiate a much better deal. sometimes its better going thrugh middle man, because you get a better rev share than, going it alone. u can also negotiate with companies like sedo if your a large customer. 70-80% rev share of sedo is better than a 30% 40% direct deal with google.

also, overture with the best bids . wont accept trademarks typos usually unless your really big player, where as some other ones will.

some my names point at direct feeds, the dodgy ones point elswhere

check out downlaod.com, dawnload.com - that is a direct overture feed. its owned by an associate of mine. - those names alone gets around 200k uniques a month and are generic non tm, so its ok to put them on overture.

**chungju4** · 31-05-05

Originally Posted by Lee_Owen

With regards to the willhill, just set up web forwarding. Sign up to the merchant on a network or their inhouse program, take the affiliate link and redirect the index page.

thx i will try that for a few different things.

**Aquanuke** · 31-05-05

"signing up for all those affiliate programs for each domain might be tedious though."

Place a redirect on one of your domains ie mega-cheap-loans.co.uk/loan_merchant.html then have dirt-cheap-loans.co.uk point to the first page.. and etc for other domains.

That way you only need sign up the first domain as thats the only domain sending any traffic.

**pistol101** · 01-06-05

we have a number of people redirecting traffic and it's an excellent revenue stream if you get the right merchants. I will PM you details as some are worth it while others you should carry on with CPC.