Affiliates?

[Pixel Pirate]

Do they help? How many affiliates do you have? Whats your personal opinion on affiliation and has it ever rewarded you?

 

[Rich Edmonds]

No I wouldn't really recommend them, don't help that much.

 

[katy perry is hot]

Re:

No I wouldn't really recommend them, don't help that much.

What Traygon said.. it doesn't really help at all unless the site you're affiliating with really is related to your subject.. for example, I am affiliated with a political news forum on my political debate forum.. this actually helps, where as me affiliating with a gaming forum for example wouldn't do anything beneficial.

 

[CyberFreak]

We don't affiliate with forums in terms of we put their button on here and they put ours on theirs. Many people do out of good will put our button on their sites and collectively they bring in alot of traffic although that is mainly down to the high number of people who has added the button. If only 4 sites had added our button we would not get many hits if any per day.

 

[Rok]

I agree with Irviding. You have to affiliate with something related to the topic of your forum to have people interested when they see your affiliate button on another user's site.

 

[spyka]

Depends who it is.

With awesome styles I've set up two 'affiliate deals' (far more than just swapping a button, but we do that too) and traffic they bring in is worth it for us and vice versa for them.

So yes, they can work, but you need to pick relevent sites with lots of traffic/users.

Affiliating with any old forum is useless I'm afraid!

 

[Pixel Pirate]

If you have a ture passion for webdesign or programming, try to go with one of those, because those are probably the easiest to start in my opinion.

You might also want to wait for other people to see this thread too. For other people.

 

[DudeThatsErin]

I don't have any. I may add some in the future but not until we grow organically.