Best Hosting Affiliate Program?
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I would like to know what kind of numbers you guys are running through hostgator. I'm currently only running about 50 sales a month which only about 10 of those stick and get paid from. From my understanding it has to do with duplicate accounts, dropped accounts after the free period is over and fraud that accounts for no pays. I know I have been reluctant to crank up the traffic on these guys.
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Exactly my thoughts. The amount of money they claim to be giving is way too ridiculous. Doesn't sound like a possible business model at all.
Even if the customer falls for their $0.01 first month plan and does go on to rebill, it'd be months before hostgator could actually make the kind of buck they claim to be giving away.
Haha, Host Gator w/ Commission Junction remind me of the good times. Used to list penny auctions years ago on eBay for hosting. I'd then email the winner the link to HostGator w/ the coupon so they can redeem the first month at a penny. Funnily, this model was actually doing me quite well and I got paid every penny by CJ - minus the auto-scrubbed leads. Too bad eBay banned my account after awhile though. Was a decent start into affiliate marketing back then.
Another good idea would be to setup a brandable domain name promoting $0.01 worth of hosting
1. Setup a decent design to make it look presentable
2. Have a small sales copy written to promote your $0.01 worth of hosting
3. Try and upsell excellent web design offers.
4. Have an email secret to "Instantly Sign them Up"
Start sending volumes to this page.
Now to analyse your sign-ins
1. Webmasters who have absolutely no knowledge about affiliate marketing.
2. Are looking for some cheap web hosting.
3. Maybe interested in some good web design/development offers.
Once they sign-in - have an automated email telling them about the hostgator/bluehost offers with their coupon code.
Wait for your commissions - once you receive. Go for a reseller account yourself and sell them hosting at really cheap prices. Either hook up with some cheap web design company or outsource your work and sell web design services to them.
Build up a portfolio and you're good to go.
1. Setup a decent design to make it look presentable
2. Have a small sales copy written to promote your $0.01 worth of hosting
3. Try and upsell excellent web design offers.
4. Have an email secret to "Instantly Sign them Up"
Start sending volumes to this page.
Now to analyse your sign-ins
1. Webmasters who have absolutely no knowledge about affiliate marketing.
2. Are looking for some cheap web hosting.
3. Maybe interested in some good web design/development offers.
Once they sign-in - have an automated email telling them about the hostgator/bluehost offers with their coupon code.
Wait for your commissions - once you receive. Go for a reseller account yourself and sell them hosting at really cheap prices. Either hook up with some cheap web design company or outsource your work and sell web design services to them.
Build up a portfolio and you're good to go.
Anyone pushing hosting, pm me -- I might be able to hook u up (especially if you're willing to promote a newer host).
Between cardine, mGrunin, PulseContent and other contributions, this thread smells like it's going to be epic before it's over.
Years ago I followed a strategy of setting up free hosting on a dedicated server, then selling upgraded hosting via an affiliate program. It made -- not a whole lot, but steady money and fairly low-maintenance. Was promoting Bluehost at the time; can't even remember where I had the server -- think it was Planet. That kind of thing is dead easy to set up, and could probably have been scaled up a lot larger than I did it.
Frank
Years ago I followed a strategy of setting up free hosting on a dedicated server, then selling upgraded hosting via an affiliate program. It made -- not a whole lot, but steady money and fairly low-maintenance. Was promoting Bluehost at the time; can't even remember where I had the server -- think it was Planet. That kind of thing is dead easy to set up, and could probably have been scaled up a lot larger than I did it.
Frank
So what's the deal with hostgator not paying? They're saying because you didn't have just one thing on your page that you violated the contract?
I've never had any issues with hostgator paying (never done huge volume, generally about 20-50 leads a month. Sometimes I'd push 100), they do scrub some of your leads but when I've split tested the offer against other hosting companies it seems to be about the same.
I've thought about the whole setting up my own thing before and when I started to seriously think about it I decided against it. Seems like way to much work, plus there are some legal issues you need to deal with and in the end it didn't seem like the extra 10-$20 per lead I'd end up getting was worth it.
I've thought about the whole setting up my own thing before and when I started to seriously think about it I decided against it. Seems like way to much work, plus there are some legal issues you need to deal with and in the end it didn't seem like the extra 10-$20 per lead I'd end up getting was worth it.
Just for my own education, what reason do they give for scrubbing your leads or not paying? I mean what do you guys see as the typical reasons why? How many of you fight them on it? How many of you are successful? Maybe this should be moved to a different thread if its way O/T but just would be interested to know.
With hosting companies I've mostly gotten reasons such as early cancellation and fraudulent credit card. This was years ago though, I quit promoting them.
I still make a few bucks from hostgator every now and then but those are manual leads coming from clients for new site projects.
IX Web Hosting pays up to $150 per sign-up. Think Host does $100. JustHost pays me $120. You can easily get $xxx payouts if you send volume. Liquidweb works great - especially if you promote servers because you get 10% recurring payments as long as the customer stays. Dedicated servers work best with Liquidweb and The Planet. Highlest single commission so far was $665 ... just need more of those.
Holy shit that was my first entry into AM too (back in 2000). Except I was doing penny auctions for Prepaid Legal, not hosting and my account was eventually banned too. Ebay hated getting 5% of a penny. I didn't even realize it was AM, I just thought I came up with an awesome loophole to make moniez.