Last week I finally made my first conversion for Adsense Referral. It was for downloading Picasa so that’s $1.
I have another Picasa referral for $0.10 yesterday.
Over the months that I ran referral, there were a handful of sign up for Adsense, but I guess no one made it past $100 in 180 days.
Overall my conversion for referral is not good at all.
It would be interesting to see and learn from what others are doing to increase referral conversion.
How is your referral conversion?
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Hi Ken,
Your results are a function of your business strategy.
If you have the button there for people to click on, obviously your conversion will be very small.
But consider this.
What if you did a PDF guide on how to use picasa.
The picasa download link was your affiliate link.
you did an installation overview, plus gave some tips.
On the last page, you include links to resources that others may find useful. These could include mozilla firefox with google toolbar, the web accelerator pack, etc.
you could also do guides for these other items.
I think if you do it right, you could generate $5-10 per person.
and if you distribute it virally, eg. refer a friend campaigns, emails campaigns, you could have a huge number of sign ups.
but it depends on your overall strategy.
if you’re depending on adsense then this is complementary.
if you’re focusing on affiliate marketing, like me, then i’d say forget it, cos the affiliate payouts are starting at abt $5 and going upwards of $100.
Andrew, you have a very good point there.
So far I had been passively using adsense which suited me well since this is not my full-time job.
Income is growing but is still far from my original target for this year. Which is why I’m looking at other avenue, such as affiliates.
Thanks for sharing the insight.
which is the perfect reason to head to ultimateaffiliateweapon.com, isn’t it?
ps: i will be announcing a special offer on my blog later today.
stay tuned.