I could have posted this thread in the hosting sub-forum but thought I would get more replies here and we can start shooting the shit of the web hosting providers.
I am an affiliate marketer (from India) and own a couple of web hosting ranking and review websites (100% Organic traffic). I promote Commission Junction web hosting offers as well as some in-house web hosting offers offered by the companies themselves. I make like $500 to $800 from these sites via (mostly) CJ offers. But by the payout time or one month (when the companies correct sales) the amount gets decreased to $100 to $200. Which means I am only getting paid $100 to $200 a month instead of $500 to $800 I actually made before the corrections of sales.
I promote Fatcow (gave last place in the rankings) on my websites from which I have lost about 5 to 6 sales in the last two months. That means they corrected the last 5 to 6 sales and paid me nothing (I should have been paid $500 to $600). I sent them an email asking them to provide me an exact reason for these corrections to which they didn't even reply.
I also promote DreamHost and WebHostingHub from their in-house affiliate programs on my websites. The thing about both these companies is eventhough I received more than 300 unique clicks on each of these programs not a single sale is resulted from those clicks (300+300 clicks). I got two signups on DreamHost but didn't make even a dime. When I asked them about these two signups they simply said those two were non-paying account signups that's why I didn't get any commissions.
I am beginning to feel that I am getting cheated my these hosting companies. I hear there is a lot of fraud in the web hosting afffiliate program signups because of the high payout (like $100 and more) that's why most advertisers correct the sales within a month once a sale is generated. I don't even have an idea about which fraud they are talking, if the customer enters a fraud billing information, then the sale doesn't even complete in the first place to later correct it or maybe they enter stolen credit card information (why would a random customer from by website do that is beyond me). Frankly, I have never done any cheating from my side.
Do you think most of the web hosting affiliate programs are fraud and they are just being advertises on networks to get sales and then correct them and not pay you? What are your experiences with any web hosting company affiliate program? Please share your views, Thanks.
I am an affiliate marketer (from India) and own a couple of web hosting ranking and review websites (100% Organic traffic). I promote Commission Junction web hosting offers as well as some in-house web hosting offers offered by the companies themselves. I make like $500 to $800 from these sites via (mostly) CJ offers. But by the payout time or one month (when the companies correct sales) the amount gets decreased to $100 to $200. Which means I am only getting paid $100 to $200 a month instead of $500 to $800 I actually made before the corrections of sales.
I promote Fatcow (gave last place in the rankings) on my websites from which I have lost about 5 to 6 sales in the last two months. That means they corrected the last 5 to 6 sales and paid me nothing (I should have been paid $500 to $600). I sent them an email asking them to provide me an exact reason for these corrections to which they didn't even reply.
I also promote DreamHost and WebHostingHub from their in-house affiliate programs on my websites. The thing about both these companies is eventhough I received more than 300 unique clicks on each of these programs not a single sale is resulted from those clicks (300+300 clicks). I got two signups on DreamHost but didn't make even a dime. When I asked them about these two signups they simply said those two were non-paying account signups that's why I didn't get any commissions.
I am beginning to feel that I am getting cheated my these hosting companies. I hear there is a lot of fraud in the web hosting afffiliate program signups because of the high payout (like $100 and more) that's why most advertisers correct the sales within a month once a sale is generated. I don't even have an idea about which fraud they are talking, if the customer enters a fraud billing information, then the sale doesn't even complete in the first place to later correct it or maybe they enter stolen credit card information (why would a random customer from by website do that is beyond me). Frankly, I have never done any cheating from my side.
Do you think most of the web hosting affiliate programs are fraud and they are just being advertises on networks to get sales and then correct them and not pay you? What are your experiences with any web hosting company affiliate program? Please share your views, Thanks.
