OPW -- May 28 -- These are the conversions for the affiliate programs that Online Personals Watch makes money from. The period is for March 21st 2006 through March 21st 2007. I only list the affiliate programs from which Online Personals Watch generated more than 1000 unique click throughs for. Here are the top converting programs ranked by the earnings per unique. Affiliate links for these sites appear in the left bar in the form of industry rankings, and from links from posts on OPW.
Profitable conversion is based on a few factors. But if you compare two non sex-dating sites such as True and American Singles, you will find that not only does true.com pay much more, but also it is a niche market or at least creates product differentiation via screening and testing. Product differentiation I believe drives sales, and higher payout will of course give more to your pocket.
Now for click thoughs, I think the equation is connected to the type of ad displayed. Russian Dating sites know attractive sexy women on affiliate ads will result in a high number of click thoughs, more than simple photos or text links.
Posted by: We can outsource your Profile Approval process | May 28, 2007 at 09:06 AM
The links are all straight text links from OPW, btw.
Posted by: Mark Brooks | May 28, 2007 at 06:28 PM
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Posted by: Josh Stevens | May 29, 2007 at 10:50 AM
On the topic of niche markets - the only way of truly achieving results is finding a site in a niche which suits you, or creating your own site - doing this these days is very easy with companies such as World Dating Partners (worlddatingpartners.com)
It is common knowledge that niche sites convert and pay better. It would be interesting to see how these perform along side other mainstream sites in an untargeted environment.
To see how some white label sites compare against each other:
http://www.affiliatedatingsites.com/white-label.html
Posted by: Affiliate Dating Sites | Jun 04, 2007 at 12:00 PM
Interesting that Match.com underperforms at #7, I've experienced low conversion rates as well despite having many "signups" in my account.
Posted by: xxx | Jul 01, 2007 at 11:41 PM
A word to the wise:
If you are thinking about promoting Eharmony.com via Commission Junction, you might want to take heed from my experience.
I was an affiliate with Eharmony for the past 2 years. Google recently picked up my site in the top 10 and during the month of June, 2007 I made well over 50% of what I had made promoting Eharmony.com in the month(s) prior.
Eharmony subsequently terminated my participation in their affiliate program. I ran a completely "white hat" site with no spam or other trickery involved.
Eharmony would not return emails and subsequent communique.
I would advise you to pick another affiliate program to promote besides Eharmony because they terminate accounts at whim.
I have spoken with two unrelated publishers who also got their Eharmony affiliate accounts canceled.
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I was pretty impressed with 4flings.com, classy, not in your face adult material, and met couple of nice guys from there
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Posted by: Robert Brereton | Dec 01, 2007 at 02:35 PM
I just read on another site that True hasn't been paying their affiliates.
Posted by: Love and Dating | Dec 01, 2007 at 06:50 PM
I've made a lot of money with affiliate programs, but I am not impressed with them and never expect the income to continue to flow in.
I've had some in-house ones simply not pay me. They never respond to email or phone calls or the Better Business Bureau complaints I've lodged against them.
I've had some (both in-house and networks) just close my account and not pay me nor offer any reason why they closed my account.
I think affiliate programs are a great way to make money as long as you don't really need the money nor expect it at the end of the month.
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Posted by: Aurelius Tjin | Jan 24, 2008 at 02:22 AM
I would have thought AFF was the top of the top. Great list to know.
Thanks
Posted by: Jen Love | Jan 28, 2008 at 10:01 PM
It is quite surprising that FriendFinder's conversion figures are so low.
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Posted by: Ashley | Mar 10, 2008 at 03:44 AM
Wow, those are some amazing stats. Aren't those dating programs the hardest to promote though? Would anybody care to expand a little bit more?
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Posted by: Sinela | Apr 11, 2008 at 06:26 PM
Thanks for the Dating sites affiliate program data. Remember the monetization model of PlentyOfFish.com - Adsense, initially. GD.
Posted by: Geoff Dodd | Apr 18, 2008 at 10:03 AM
I think I have to agree with Ashley and Day Jobs for instance when I say that at this point I wouldn't even talk about niches no more. Or, are you really convinced that even inside the dating market itself there's room for more?
Posted by: Regular marketing player | Apr 19, 2008 at 05:28 AM
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They have Pay per click, pay per action, contexts. Check their home page for more information, but I have never been shaved by them for all the time I work!
Posted by: Uzzzer | Apr 20, 2008 at 10:40 AM
We need a table or survey of affiliates who have been paid promptly or not.
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Posted by: Alia | Apr 25, 2008 at 10:01 AM
Hello,
the eHarmony affiliate program (led by "Jeff Gordon") is a complete mess and has been now for over 6 months. Jeff is the most unresponsive affiliate manager ever. He is consistently late in meeting deadlines and terminates affiliate accounts at the slightest provocation. The reporting for eHarmony is completely screwed up, with the CJ audit pixel catching more sales than eHarmony is reporting.
Run, don't walk away from the eHarmony affiliate program. It is nothing but trouble.
Posted by: Josh | May 01, 2008 at 08:58 PM
Do you have a sense if the Yahoo pay per clicks were all from Personals... or were other Yahoo! services mixed in (e.g., HotJobs, web hosting, etc.)?
Posted by: Timothy Horrigan | May 16, 2008 at 03:25 PM
Have you got any updates on the latest stats on these and other sites.
Obviously the stats that you have access to are only your own personal findings, on a site which is not aimed at dating sites consumers.
Is there anyone out there who has an independent review of these sorts of stats for different dating sites, and hopefully has put figures together from a number of sources to get good averages across different advertising mediums?
These sorts of comparative stats would be highly insightful for anyone looking to promote dating sites. And for companies like us to know where we stand competitively against others….. we know we convert and pay highly, but its nice to see it in black and white from a 3rd party!
Posted by: Tim Rees | May 29, 2008 at 08:21 AM
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Posted by: greg | Sep 15, 2008 at 02:01 AM
This is a great comparison chart, it's now December 2008, do you think the conversions have changed since March 2006-March 2007? Does anyone have updates?
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Posted by: Jeff Paul Internet Millions | Mar 09, 2009 at 01:57 AM
Thanks for the info i've been looking for a dating service to become an affiliate of. I was looking at fling but it doesn't appear to be on the list
Posted by: samantha | Oct 20, 2009 at 02:46 AM
I would be very cautious about sexdatecash.com. I had a bad experience with Sexdatecash. The company owed me over $300 dollars and would not pay me. I wrote several emails to upper level folks, but they all simply ignored me. So I eventually had to replace all their links others. It really hurts when you expend so many hours trying to work as a team, and then your partner screws you for not reason other than they can. I hope I cause them to lose business with this message, even if it's just one customer.
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Posted by: Dean Patrick | Aug 17, 2011 at 07:41 PM
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As far as I see, you have offers or reviews of different affiliate programs and we are interested in it as well. By the way, I would like to learn if it’s possible to place banners at your site.
Could you give me information about your prices and your conditions?
Please, answer me as soon as possible.
Thanks,
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Posted by: Valentina | Feb 27, 2012 at 06:40 AM