£5 free to all new affiliates

[greatestdomains]

Hi guys

We are offering £5.00 to all new affiliates who join My Aff Site UK

The money will go straight in to your affiliate account

My Aff Site UK - Run your own affiliate shop

If you have any questions, please feel free to PM me

How it works

1) You open a FREE affiliate account and add your domain names.

2) Your shops are created instantly. Simply change your nameservers

3) Stock your shops with products from over 350 retailers

4) Add your own logo and change the style of your shops

5) Receive commission every time a product is sold, Monthly Payments straight to your bank account or via paypal

 

[retired_member4]

I just signed up and will give it a try with a few domains.

Is this new? And has anyone had any success?

Cheers,

Jim

 

[Systreg]

@ Fagend, I joined the Chris's myaffsite program right at the start when he posted on the forum asking for beta testers for it in early December.

I'm very happy with how some of my bike sites are performing on there, and despite the domains being very new, 3 of them are number 1 in a Yahoo search for "carbon bikes", "bike lights" and "mountain bike frame + mountain bike frames". Some of my other sites on there have made nothing yet, but that will be down to the fact that they are not ranked very well in searches at the moment, so that's not myaffsites fault.

So far, I have made £51.65 (£56.65 including sign up bonus) commission up to January 15th from my bmxbikes site, and since the 15th, I have 3 more commission payments of £0.28, £2.92 and £12.60 to come from my carbon bikes, select bikes and bike lights sites.

I know Chris is constantly working to improve the program, it used to be a bit slow loading the product description pages after clicking on the images at times, but he has now changed that to a button below the images which takes you directly to the retailers product page for a full product description where they can buy the item, so it's a lot quicker. He also added a quick link menus module recently, so you can set it up to have links straight to particular makes/brands for each product, overall, I love it 8)

 

[retired_member4]

So far it's looking good. A lot better looking than a parked page And a lot less effort than developing my own affiliate website.

I also have a few bike domains, so I'll give them a shot too.

I'm still trying to find my way around setting it up properly but once I have it figured out I'm sure I'll be adding more domains. PPC is dead, and aff or dev is the only way forward for 2009/2010 IMHO.

I don't know where to start with selling .uk domains to end users, so I'll be trying affiliate sales over the next couple years.

Do you think myaffsite would also be successful with .com domains? I own hundreds of .coms but only a couple of dozen .uk I only recently realised the full value and potential of .uk
Hope I've not missed the boat with .uk

Cheers,

Jim

 

[Systreg]

@ FagEnd, not sure about .coms but I don't see why they wouldn't do just as well if they are ranked well.

I totally agree that affiliate is the way to go, for me anyway it is, I don't have any fancy type in domains to earn revenue from parking, and my site making skills are rubbish, so this is ideal for people like me. Just checked myaffsite stats and my mountain bike frame site has just made another sale today, £6.86 commission (unconfirmed as yet) added to the total

I should hopefully start getting more hits on my bike stores soon and possibly more sales, as I added my store links to my cycle training site yesterday, that gets quite a few hits and I have a couple of cycle training logs on biking sites that have over 75,000 views each, any commission made is going towards buying my new mountain bike, which will also be bought through my site to earn more commission

[edit]

If you are putting your bike sites on there, use the Halfords and Wiggle retailers, Halfords pay 5% commission for everything, Wiggle pay the same for all stuff on their site, except bikes and bike frames, which you only earn 1% or 2% on, hopefully, Chris will be adding Evans Cycles to the retailer section some time soon, they offer 5% for everything including bikes and frames.

[edit]

Just a correction to one of my figures above, it wasn't a £6.86 commission sale today, it was £3.94, I was looking at the January total, the other sale commission 2 days ago was £2.92 = £6.86

 

[retired_member4]

I've uploaded several sites and working on setting them up, but the backend system is really slow at times, and the domains load painfully slow at times. Is this just an issue with server load and will it be fixed anytime soon?

Apart from that it seems to be a great service. Hope it remains free to use. I'm assuming the way it works is Chris gets a share of the affiliate revenue generated so can offer the service for free.

Cheers

Jim

 

[greatestdomains]

The reason is normally if there are no retailers added, it is crawling through 2 million records. Make sure to add retailers to each shop

PM Sent

 

[disruptive]

Hi

Nice work! I like it, been looking for something along these lines for ages. I am just getting to grips with the system and wondered if there was any way to compress the number of items for sale? There is a lot of white space on the pages I am seeing on bmxbikes etc!! Is there a way to shrink the product size?

Cheers!

 

[Takwa]

How come I didn't know this earlier? just signed up was also thinking of building a Bans site, but was too lazy, now this is perfect! thanks

 

[disruptive]

I have trialled the following sites:

skiing | skiing deals
classic cars | classic cars deals
gadgets | gadgets deals
jeans | jeans deals

Let me know if you think I could improve....

Suggestions

1. Reduce font size or white space!!! Or have user settings!
2. Clickable images.


Cheers

 

[jd18]

Thought I would sign up as well.

currently run a number of Bans sites, but that requires effort and also have parked pages. So will give this a go with some sites.

 

[DaveBeasley]

Hi

Nice work! I like it, been looking for something along these lines for ages. I am just getting to grips with the system and wondered if there was any way to compress the number of items for sale? There is a lot of white space on the pages I am seeing on bmxbikes etc!! Is there a way to shrink the product size?

Cheers!

Same here...I've joined and initiated one site, but all that white space makes it look really ugly. Would be great if there was a way to specify a grid type layout of how many squares you wanted per page, i.e 9x9 or 12x12 perhaps with sizing options.

I think i'm going to have to leave it for now till it looks a bit prettier.
Good luck with it, i will certainly keep checking back to see how settings are progressing.

Dave

 

[Takwa]

Doesn't look too bad, you can change the colour.

 

[retired_member4]

I've set up about 2 dozen sites just to try it out.

I set up bicycle | bicycle deals and bicycle | bicycle deals

Halfords and Wiggle seem to have all the products needed for a decent bike aff site.

I used the description box for adding URL search terms using html, as the quick links was limited to 20 links.

 

[Systreg]

Nice one FagEnd, just noticed on your site, when you click frames in the menu on your second site link, there are no results, you might want to add that keyword to your products keyword page.

I've had some more sales on my bike sites since my post on page one, my total commission for December and January is now nearly £100, and since January 15th, the total is already up to about £37, still a few weeks until we get paid out on February 15th, so it should be totting up to a nice amount by then

Latest sales commission from my bike sites since January 15th:

Date	               Views   Clicks  Orders  Pending    Revenue

January 22nd 2009 	20	4	1	£13.06	£13.06
January 22nd 2009 	13	0	1	£4.30	£4.30
January 20th 2009 	8	3	1	£3.94	£3.94
January 18th 2009 	26	6	1	£12.60	£12.60
January 18th 2009 	6	1	1	£2.92	£2.92
January 16th 2009 	36	13	1	£0.28	£0.28

Not sure why there is a 0 clicks for the one on the 22nd where there was an order.

 

[retired_member4]

Thanks for pointing that out Systreg,

This was caused by me specifying a keyword for the site. I removed it now so the links and search should be more relevant.

Cheers,

Jim

 

[Systreg]

Not sure why there is a 0 clicks for the one on the 22nd where there was an order.

I sent Greatestdomains a PM about that, and he tells me it's to do with the retailer cookies, the actual click was made on January 15th, but they didn't place an order until yesterday, apparently most retailer cookies last for 30 days, so if they visit the store again and order something, you still get paid and the click on the day of purchase doesn't show.

 

[drop]

cool

pretty cool greatest...

how about trying multi path css within the template, there is way too much wasted real estate, all that white space could be earning bundles more... chuck a few iframes here and there for now, then you could be competing with bans for a quicker way to make a few bucks without doing anything... something all marketeers like doing

do you have any other layouts planned for the future?

maybe add in some other feeds to enhance the chance of a natural find by the search engines bots etc etc :arrow:

also maybe offer £10 to acorn / holders of X domains, as the £5 is the norm on the site... get more sign ups that way...

and if say someone holds XX to XXXX+ names offer even more to get them using it....

oh and how about a blanket email / sms to lots of existing affiliates who all have DN's doing jack cause they are lazy

 

[springer]

Changing the colour on the sites and having a featured product helps make the site look more attractive I think. See Chelsea Football Shirts.

The Chelsea Shirts site is doing well in Google (page 1) but no sales to date

EDIT: just noticed that the text in the description is centered now - seem to be the same on all the other sites too - it looked better when it was not centered.

 

[Systreg]

@ FagEnd and anyone else with bike site stores, Greatestdomains has just added Evans Cycles to the list of retailers today, so make sure you add it to your retailers list. I've been waiting for this one to be added, Evans pay 5% on everything, including bikes and frames, compared to Wiggle, who only pay 1% - 2% on bikes and frames, and 5% for all other products.

It makes a hell of a different commission wise, for example, Greatestdomains sent me a PM earlier, he told me that the £13.06 commission yesterday was from someone buying an item costing £871.05 from Wiggle through my mountain bike frame site, and it paid me 2% commission, had they bought it through Evans Cycles, I would have earnt £43.50 commission, really glad they are now onboard, as they have some of the best mountain bikes around in their product range.