Internet Dating Affiliates

SeekingArrangement & SeekingMillionaire Launch Affiliate Program

PR WEB -- Feb 21 -- SeekingArrangement.com (130k members since 2006) and SeekingMillionaire.com (60k members since 2007), cater to millionaires and beautiful girls and has launched an affiliate program. "While other online dating websites pay a commission only when a customer pays, our affiliate programs pays when a visitor registers, and each time the customer pays to upgrade," said Brandon Wade, CEO of InfoStream Group Inc, which operates the sites. FULL ARTICLE @ PR WEB

Mark Brooks: WealthyMen, MillionaireMatch, FriendFinder's MillionareMate.com and SugarDaddyForMe.com also compete in the high niche.  The current rankings for this niche can be found under the Niche Internet Dating Rankings under the Official Internet Dating Rankings on this site. 

 

Sugar Daddie, Alexa ~ 1/08
1 SugarDaddie
2 SugarDaddyForMe
3 WealthyMen

This post also appears on OnlinePersonalsWatch.

Casual Dating Affiliate Payouts Top The Industry

FF -- Feb 15 -- Does anyone know of any dating affiliate programs that pay out higher than casual dating sites?  The super fast growing dating sites Fling and SexSearch are topping my research on payouts. SexSearch is paying out $90 and Fling $50 per paid sign up over Valentines. Adultfriendfinder is definitely feeling the heat on its tail from these two. I'm surprised how many dating sites don't have affiliate programs. Match, eHarmony, Perfectmatch and Yahoo! have good programs, but many top and second tier players have relatively small programs, if they have them at all. From the affiliate perspective adult dating sites just plain convert better, which would partly explain the rise in popularity of casual dating sites over the last few years. CJ, Linkshare, Azoogleads, Shareasale, Primary Ads, and Link Connector all drive significant amounts of traffic to dating sites.  CJ seems to have the most offers. Email me at [email protected] for a copy of my spreadsheet listing all the dating offer payouts on the top affiliate networks. - Mark Brooks

SexSearch Offering $90 Payouts Through 2/29

PRESS RELEASE -- Feb 15 -- SexSearch.com Adult Personals (17m users) has decided to make Valentine's Day last a lot longer. SexSearch is extending its Valentine's Day promotion to webmasters for the rest of February. Affiliates can now earn $90 per sign up through February 29, 2008.  All new webmasters get $90 per sign up while existing webmasters who increase their sales by 20% compared to the last pay period also get $90 per sign up.

Mate1's "Agency Of Record"

REUTERS -- Feb 14 -- Mate1.com named AzoogleAds as its Search Engine Marketing "Agency of Record." AzoogleAds, founded in 2000, is an end-to-end online marketing solutions provider for advertisers, publishers and online affiliates.

The full article was originally published at Reuters, but is no longer available.

How To Get Online Advertising For Free

GUARDIAN.CO.UK -- Feb 14 -- Matthew Inman of Mingle2 figured out a way to get people to advertise his sites without paying them. At first, he tried creating linkbait to get his site noticed. I still wasn't getting many signups. "Eventually I created the 'how geek are you?' quiz and added a link to the quiz badge that said 'free online dating' and linked to my homepage." As his quiz badge spread across the internet, Inman's dating site began ranking at Google for "free online dating", and people started to sign up. Six months and 2 million visitors later, Mingle2 was bought by JustSayHi.com, another free dating website. FULL ARTICLE @ GUARDIAN

Share This, Pretty Please

FF -- Feb 13 -- You can now share posts with friends by email and add them to Digg, Delicious, Facebook, Mixx, etc by clicking on the 'Share This' button on the bottom of each post. I hope that's useful. Thanks for spreading the word. Please let me know if there's anything else we should add to the blog by emailing me at [email protected], or calling me at 212-444-1636. Thanks. - Mark Brooks

50 Social Sites That Every Business Needs A Presence On

INSIDE CRM -- Jan 28 -- Here is the list of 50 Social-Media/Social-Bookmarking Sites to help promote your company.

Social-Media/Social-Bookmarking Sites

1. Reddit
2. Digg
3. Del.icio.us
4. StumbleUpon
5. Technorati
6. Ning
7. Squidoo
8. Furl
9. Tubearoo
10. WikiHow
11. YouTube
12. Ma.gnolia

Professional-Networking Sites

13. LinkedIn
14. Ecademy
15. Ryze
16. YorZ
17. Xing
18. Facebook
19. Care2
20. Gather
21. MEETin.org
22. Tribe
23. Ziggs
24. Plaxo
25. NetParty
26. Networking For Professionals

Niche Social-Media Sites

27. Pixel Groovy
28. Mixx
29. Tweako
30. Small Business Brief
31. Sphinn
32. BuzzFlash.net
33. HubSpot
34. SEO TAGG

General Social-Media Sites

35. Wikipedia
36. Newsvine
37. 43 Things
38. Wetpaint
39. Frappr
40. Yahoo! Answers

Job Sites

41. CareerBuilder.com
42. The Wall Street Journal's CareerJournal
43. CollegeRecruiter.com
44. Monster
45. Sologig
46. AllFreelance.com
47. Freelance Switch Job Listings
48. GoFreelance
49. Yahoo! Hot Jobs
50. Guru.com

The full article was originally published at Inside @ CRM, but is no longer available.

eMail Strongest Performing Media Buy

RESEARCH BRIEF -- Jan 30 -- According to Datran Media's second annual survey of over 2000 online marketing professionals, 82% of marketers plan to increase their use of email marketing in 2008, and 55% expect ROI from email to be higher than any other channel. The email ROI will hit $45.65 for every dollar spent in 2008, more than twice the ROI of other mediums including search and display.

The full article was originally published at Media Post, but is no longer available.