December 2011 Affiliate Earnings
The Gambling Affiliate team is now going to be on a monthly basis reporting on its earnings and its thoughts re the various programs that it partners with. We took a long awaited trip to Las Vegas this year and had a fantastic Christmas and New Years in Sin City and at the same time managed to look at a host of games and products.
December 2011 earnings have proven to be very decent with our top earning position going to Wager Junction. This program makes use of the Playtech Casino Affiliate software and performed well with 20 first time depositors and good retention. They have also updated the marketing tools page with a new layout which makes it easy to check out their various tools.
Another good performer was Betfair although earnings were a bit shoddy, conversion was great so we are going to continue pushing them as they seem to look after players and that is critical for us. Slotland Affiliates as per usual reported decent consistent earnings for us. Actually they were about 20% up on average earnings in December. What lets this program down is the actual detailed reporting. Gambling Affiliates are not able to tell how many first time depositors they get for a specific time period and that makes it hard to tweak any campaigns you are running.
We did have a running battle with Brightshare this month re our link structure. It seemed they were filtering out all traffic that was being redirected via a /links/ redirect. Who knows how much traffic and earnings has been lost due to this. It took a week of emails to get them to understand why this was an issue. Check your Brightshare links if you are using redirects as the problem might not be resolved for all. They seem to have a word block list in place.
Overall earnings are way up on the previous month thanks to a very good month at Wager Junction. If you are looking for a decent product to promote in international markets and Canada then you will not go wrong by giving some space to this bunch and making use of their range of tools including their Free Flash games.
Written for Gambling Affiliate by Greg.
