Affiliate program

[Killer2]

An affiliate program is where the site owner distributes links, banners or widgets that when used can tie any resulting transaction or page views back to the affiliate (person who put the links on their site) usually so they can earn a commission off the transaction value.

But it isn't that much for a commission, but still worth it.

[Ad Bot]

[Ephialtes]

Referral programs would usually offer you a set reward value because there's only one or two products or services to promote.

[Regulith]

I'm not sure I see the difference, except that referrals are usually links and the affiliate programs sound like it's more for website owners. Is that right?

[Ephialtes]

Kind of. You'd use referral programs if you were promoting a single item - e.g. a particular game or a service. But if you have say, 1000 products you want to promote then you'd use an affiliate program where affiliates pick a bunch of products that they want to promote and put links and details about them on their websites. Affiliate programs are a more long-term thing where you have a relationship with the affiliate whereas with referrals it's usually one-time things.

I'm in the affiliate marketing industry.  

[Killer2]

I'm in the affiliate marketing industry.

For Blockland?

Referral programs would usually offer you a set reward value because there's only one or two products or services to promote.

Ok, so we should make a referral program then.

[Ephialtes]

For Blockland?

No, the company I work for is an affiliate network.

I'm not sure if Badspot's still running the google ads but those would have a much better success rate than any affiliate or referral program since the targeting is more precise and the reach is pretty much global. I just don't see any substantial benefit to Badspot of offering one unless someone here secretly ran a site with hundreds of thousands of users.

[Killer2]

No, the company I work for is an affiliate network.

What is the company called?

I'm not sure if Badspot's still running the google ads but those would have a much better success rate than any affiliate or referral program since the targeting is more precise and the reach is pretty much global. I just don't see any substantial benefit to Badspot of offering one unless someone here secretly ran a site with hundreds of thousands of users.

Want to find out?

[pixl]

badspot still runs the google ads, they work too. If you are on a lego site they will most likely have a blockland ad pop up

[Kalphiter]

Refer RTB users to Blockland

[Killer2]

Poll added!

[Bisjac]

That is not what we are talking about! Stay on topic or leave.

that is what we are talking about, so forget off

[Kalphiter]

that is what we are talking about, so forget off

Killer2 is mentally handicapped, please do not interact with it.

[Hugums]

Not to self: don't go into marketing.

[Bisjac]

i vote no.
i would happily mention this game around the net for free.
but would never spam stupid stuff for money

[Packer]

An affiliate programme would only be beneficial if you guys had sites with high fresh traffic to put links & banners on, which I don't think anyone does.

You have Return to Bl.... oh wait 

RTB only gets about 15,000 hits a month (really not much), 50% of which are direct links from here and the other 50% are search engine links from keywords like "blockand", "rtb" and "blockland add-ons".

I don't think anyone there doesn't have Blockland already.

It was a joke and you completely missed the point hence running straight into a brick wall. People are just too tick these days to see humour, or what was used to be humour.