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Affiliate Tools Of The Not So Distant Future.
It is no secret that the adult industry is gradually becoming harder and harder to turn a profit however, thankfully, many adult sponsors are always pushing the limits on the promotional tools they make available to their webmasters and, with this constant pushing of the marketing boundaries it is surprising how as yet no body has thought about launching a series of hosted free sites and, more surprisingly, why nobody has thought to launch a hosted link list.
Hosted Link Lists.
In essence fo a sponsor to be profitable they need to ensure that their affiliates have a range of marketing tools available to them whether these tools come in the form of new creatives, hosted galleries, hosted TGP's, hosted free sites or in fact, new ideas such as hosted links list the one thing that ties all of these tools together from a sponsors point of view is cost and, more importantly, will the cost involved in setting up these new tools be smaller than the profits made by allowing their affiliates to use them? Lets take a look at the idea mentioned above, the hosted link list, what in essence, would be required from an affiliate program in order to make this become a reality for adult webmasters after all, hosted TGP's are all the rage it would seem at the moment so, it is only natural that at some point in the near future, hosted link lists will become a big hit to.
Hosted Link Lists - Costs Involved.
First and foemost the main cost involved in launching something such as a hosted link list will be time, many hours of it in fact for example, in order for the link list to be of any benefit, there must be a wide range of sites included on it in an even wider range of niches. Lets say that th hosted link list will require 100 free sites building in say 6 distinct categories, that means the before anything can be done to actually market the new promotional tool the affiliate program must come up with 600 hosted free sites in a range of styles and niches. The cost involvement in this taking the time aspect out of the equation itself is quite great, many of the designers who specialize in AVS sites will charge anywhere from $30-$120 per site, multiply that by 600 and thats quite a chunk of change just to get the basis of the hosted link list ready.
Hosted Link Lists - Next Phrase.
Now that the affiliate program has had these 600 free sites built they need to work on one crucial aspect of the hosted link list, the design, should they opt for a plain HTML layout or, should they go that little bit further and get a snazzy design made for the link list, either way, this desin aspect is probably the most important aspect after building the initial 600 sites. In addition to the design of the hosted link list itself, there is also going to be a need for bandiwdth costs as well as scripting to enable the affiliate to give this new tool to their webmasters both of these items could run into thousands of dollars and again, it comes down to weighing the benfits of the hosted link list across to the cost involved.
Hosted Link Lists - Putting Them To Use.
So lets say we have a sponsor program who has a hosted link list ready for webmasters to promote, what good is this link list to the webmaster if they are unsure where to use it? Well the simplest way to utilize such a tool would be to use it on your regular free sites as part of th recip chain, after all, you are going to be giving other link lists space on your front page so why not put a recip link up to something that is going to make you money in the process? In addition to using the hosted link list on your regulr free sites, you may also like to utilize this new tool as part of your exit chain, perhaps having it as th final console that pops hen a surfer leaves your site, by using it in this manner, you know that you have tried as much as you can to make a sale from the surfer while they hav been on your site and this is your one last ditch attempt to gleam a sale from them.
Hosted Link Lists - An Overview.
All in all, the hosted link list idea could be a very profitable one for both affiliate program owners and, affiliates themselves however, as mentioned above, before anything like this will become a reality i think the sponsors will need to play the numbers game, its all well and good offering these tools to adult webmasters but, if noone will use them, there really isnt a point in creating them in the first place. if you feel that a hosted link list could be somehting you want to use when it comes to marketing your adult surfers, then the one thing you need to do is to start asking your sponsors for them today.
Article written by Lee.
Whilst this article in essence, is geared towards affiliate program owners in helping them to understand how they can be more creative using current adult industry working models with their program, it can also benefit affiliate webmasters too by understanding how much time, effort and, money is put into the tools that affiliate programs offer their webmasters.