Anyone interested in promoting their product on our site?
Hey I've been working on a coding/design blog with my siblings for the past year and we've nearly reached 30,000 unique pageviews. We know it's not much but we've grown well lately with a 50% monthly increase in views.
Now we're starting to test different ways to monetize and curious would anyone pay $1-2 for every user who registers on their site from an affiliate link displayed on our site? I'm thinking if you have something you want to test or attract some early users then you can spend like $20 and get 10-15 users. I think our readers and writers would not mind if we're advertising new, interesting projects from founders.
Feel free to send me a message on twitter if interested.
What’s the website?
To offer you another way to monetize, my company is a micropayment processor. Within the next week, we will be releasing a donation/tip widget. You can drop it in on any/all pages with like 3 lines of code. You can use it essentially as "hey, if you liked this blog post, tip $0.10, $0.15, $0.25". Actual amounts can be configured and users can change it also.
With 30k unique viewers, if 1/3 donate/tip $0.10 per post, that is $1000 a post.
No upfront or recurring costs, so if nobody uses it, you wasted like 5 minutes installing it.
We will have a referral program eventually, but that is a ways out.
A third of our viewers will most likely not tip since they're just browsing. I don't think we would be able to get people to donate anytime soon
Is this a dev blog? If so, I offer 25% recurring on each referred sale, that’s a lot more than $2 so might be of interest :)
https://pqina.nl/doka/affiliates/
yes it's a dev blog, but it's a lot of content for beginners so i don't think our users would be that interested. Seems like an awesome project though
Thanks! Well, let me know if you change your mind 👍
Will do!
If it is for design https://saaspages.xyz/ might be cool to share (it is a free tool)
Also https://versoly.com/affiliate it is a no code tool that developers actually love
This could make sense especially since we've started writing more about SEO basics for developers. My only concern is that we need to track the page that sent over the conversion. We've signed up for affiliate programs powered by Rewardful before, and there have not been any tracking options
So you want more detailed analytics? (might be able to set that up using google analytics events) You won't be able to see what pages convert the best though.
@bradycassidy ? something you folks offer?
P.S. We're about to launch a Yoast alternative that is built into Versoly that has 30+ checks for SEO.
@jamesAS what specifically are you looking for in terms of analytics? We have lots under the hood that we don't expose in the affiliate dashboard (yet) or they could be easter eggs :)
Basically the ability to add a postback url that will be called when a conversion happens. There's some older affiliate platforms like Tune and Cake that allow affiliates to add a postback url or a tracking pixel in the dashboard. Affiliates can then pass additional values in their unique affiliate link which will be included in the postback url when called. For example, this allows email marketers to segment their audiences and A/B test to see which one converts better.
At the same time, all we really need is the ability to add subIDs to our affiliate link so we can better track which of our pages are are responsible for earning the affiliate commission. The postback url is just something I've used on older affiliate platforms.