How much $$ do YOU make?

[Guard Dog]

This has definitely turned into a different thread I should split it off... but I won't.


AGD is looking to help in this respect. I know that not everyone comes here for information. That is not entirely a bad thing. I prefer the professionalism we have here and enjoy the membership we do have.

Since other forums have a good number of affiliates with experience, I have been working on something for them to allow alerts to be integrated to their forums/blogs/sites.

This will soon be available by request and the application is this:

Custom RSS Feed Manager

The RSS Feed Manager allows our Terms Alerts to be rolled into a very custom RSS Feed. This allows the wrapping of HTML, vBulletin's BBCode, and more around the terms alerts. What this will do is allow each forum/blog/site to have their own look and feel to the terms alerts.

It will allow us to get the news out to a much wider base and keep everyone informed. For something like the BWin situation, this will put that information in front of the search engines in many formats.

Anyway... that should help consolidate at least some of the information.

[Christoff]

So glad that thread was revived - great reading everyone's stories

As for protecting oneself from being shafted, work with reputable programs. I have worked on the operator side for nearly 7 years and seen it all.

The reputable ones don't seem to get the number of affiliates/players than the slightly less reputable ones did - amazing.

[Smoky89]

Indeed it was grate reading all those stories, i just hope that one day i can come back with a story like one of those. For now i am tier 1 , but hope to get to 2 by the end of this year.

[felku]

I like topics like this it sheers me up, I hope to see this thread updated in a future.

[casinobonusguy]

It is nice to watch the growth of this thread ,hopefully we will all move up together :0

[casdir]

Some sites don't have very many links, but rank incredibly well. In that type of case, I guess the site either has very powerful backlinks, or possibly a 301 redirect from another site with a lot of backlinks. A 301 redirect can't be detected when your checking a site's backlinks in Yahoo! site explorer.

[AussieDave]

Some sites don't have very many links, but rank incredibly well.

Hi Casdir,

It's all about the quality of each back link not quantity of them; can make a huge difference if done properly.

EG - A couple of my sites have multiple .gov.au links, whilst they are not directly associated to my slots niche, they do target the gaming industry. These type of backlinks are high valuable. Obtain these type of 1wbl and you don't need too many to climb the serps - especially when pointing back to aged domains who have built Google authority

[dominique]

So glad that thread was revived - great reading everyone's stories

As for protecting oneself from being shafted, work with reputable programs. I have worked on the operator side for nearly 7 years and seen it all.

The reputable ones don't seem to get the number of affiliates/players than the slightly less reputable ones did - amazing.

That's because it becomes harder and harder for affiliates to distinguish reputable from disreputable. I have had my share of surprises when places that are old, established, proven and have worked with me for years, even a decade, suddenly turn out to be totally corrupt.

A lot of the older ones get caught with their fingers in the cookie jar these days, and the new ones - it's just so hard to tell what they are like and whether they will make it.

To me, it just seems more and more difficult to seperate the chaff from the grain.

[xecutable]

I believe that it's in no ones interested to be easy to star making money with affiliating. Why? It's sort of protection, to everyone that's in the industry already, that someone who has no passion or interest in what we are doing enters, puts out a low value website and starts making tons of money on day 3.

This would only make this field more desirable and flooded with schmucks. Therefore it makes me actually happy to see that it requires years before you start getting what you desire. For me it took about year and a half to find and meet the right people and start improving and earning.

Was more of a blogger than an affiliate in the first year, but that helped for building quality content, so it was not waste of time. You never waste your time when you are producing quality content. You might not be ready to monetize it, but that's a different story.

I recently met a lot of people in Barcelona, making great amounts of money, most of them were busy people . So if you find yourself have too much free time, something is wrong. The cost for running site (unless you are a super affiliate) should be quite low, domain and hosting. The rest should be pretty much free.

Also set up small goals. Getting from $500 a month to 100k$ can be a long journey, so start with 500 to 1000 and from 1000 to 2000 etc. Would be much easier to focus, and you will not feel despair <-- something I forget from time to time.

Bottom line, "if you build it, they will come"

[AussieDave]

You never waste your time when you are producing quality content. You might not be ready to monetize it, but that's a different story.

Place the cart before the horse doesn't work. After all these years (regardless of alog updates) I'm still a firm believer quality content builds trust with Google. Once your site has this you can then cultivate other areas.

Also set up small goals. Getting from $500 a month to 100k$ can be a long journey, so start with 500 to 1000 and from 1000 to 2000 etc. Would be much easier to focus, and you will not feel despair <-- something I forget from time to time.

Some excellent advice!