do affialtes pay off???

[MoA]

Just wondering.. cause I wanna keep my skin clean of all the flashy animations (even if as small as an affiliation button)
so is it worth it???

 

[Cosmic]

It depends who you affiliate. Here are some statistics for one-two months of affiliating I got:

Forum of a different genre: 1 user
Forum of the same genre: 15 users.

You need to affiliate where people will be interested in joining. Make sure ou affiliate with forums of the same genre as yours!

 

[Murder he Wrote]

I've never known them to be useful, ever. Whilst you might get some new members, at the same time you risk any potential members following the affiliate and joining a site in the same niche that's better than yours.

Best sticking to good ole' one-way link building.

 

[Watch Me Sink]

Only one of mine has greatly piad off (and in fact his forum was bigger, he quit his forum and becaame the #1 poster at mine).

Point is that if you are going to do affiliates, make sure they are the same general area. If you are a PC forum, don't affiliate with a football forum.

 

[Fergal]

Affiliate promotion works best when you are promoting a service that is of interest to your visitors / members, but that doesn't compete directly with your own site. For example, hosting affiliate schemes can work well on webmaster sites. Hosting affiliates also work well on sites that provide free hosting only. When a member is upgrading to paid hosting they will often use the affiliate link from their free host.