How To Succeed With Affiliate Dating Sites – Part 3
If you already own a website or blog that attracts a consistent number of visitors and which is based on a particular niche interest then congratulations - half your work is already done! You have an audience who share a common interest and who regularly visit your site, so adding your dating affiliate program links and banners to your site will probably generate some new members and earn you some commission. As a website owner or blogger you will already be aware that your site needs frequent updates in order to keep it fresh and give your visitors some reason to return.
Fresh and original content containing the keywords and phrases that people search for, and links to your site from sites that are in a similar category as your own - these are the basics of SEO (Search Engine Optimization). Working on these aspects of your site are the mandatory requirements if you are to rank highly in search engines and attract website visitors
In the early days of the World Wide Web it was possible to to build a website and without too much effort you could expect to attract enough visitors to make the site viable. Today there are billions of websites and trillions of web pages and cataloguing, indexing, and listing these sites in such a way that each can be found in a search engine is a mammoth task.
As you are probably already aware Google is the world leader in terms of search engines and the vast majority of websites are found by searches in one of Google's many search engine sites. In order for your site to appear on page one of the search results when someone enters a search term for which your site would be an ideal response then you need to work on the content of your site, link swapping, and other SEO work.
You could hire an SEO expert to do this for you, but there's much you can do your for yourself. This guide list many suggestions for attracting new traffic to your site as well as encouraging repeat visits from former visitors. There are 28 suggestions in that article. Not all of them will be relevant to you and your site but many of them can be followed quite easily and with minimal or no cost at all except your time and effort. The main thing to remember is that these are tried and tested methods that do work.
The results may not be instant, so don't expect your site to suddenly appear in the top five positions of page one for your target keyword search term within a matter of days or even weeks, but you will reap the rewards for all your hard work within months. Just keep adding the content, swapping links, writing articles, and otherwise increasing the amount of text that both talks about and points towards your site and the subjects it covers.
Dating affiliate programs for all kinds of niches
How To Succeed With Affiliate Dating Sites – Part 1
How To Succeed With Affiliate Dating Sites – Part 2
How To Succeed With Affiliate Dating Sites – Part 2
In part 1 we summarised the dating affiliate options for the benefit anyone new to this idea. Here in part 2 we will list the many categories and niches available to the budding affiliate marketeer or business.
When one starts imagining and calculating the possible rewards from a successful affiliate campaign it's often easy to overlook the amount of work involved in generating sales. There may also be a desire to sign up for as many of the programs available in the belief that a multiple program approach will increase the chances of results.
However, new affiliates would be better of registering with a carefully chosen small selection of dating affiliate programs first and devoting more energy into promoting this select few rather than wasting time registering for dozens of programs many of which they won't have time to promote. Choose quality over quantity as it's better to generate sales and see a total increase in one network rather than see occasional sales in multiple sites. You'll be paid more quickly!
Remember, the process is quite simple and it's best kept that way:
- Register for one or more affiliate accounts. Choose those that fit the them of your site or blog.
- Familiarise yourself with the various text links, banners, and other tools available for your use.
- Make use of those tools in your website, blog, or email or forum signatures.
In Part 3 of this guide we'll cover some ways that you can use to attract more visitors to your site.
| Niche | Successful Match Network | Singles Cash Network | Friend Finder Network | Mingle Match Network | Other Networks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adventist | Register | ||||
| Age Difference | Register | ||||
| Asian | Register | Register | Register | Register | |
| Baptist | Register | ||||
| BBW / Larger People | Register | Register | Register | ||
| Bikers | Register | Register | |||
| Bisexuals | Register | ||||
| Black Singles | Register | Register | Register | ||
| Canadian | Register | ||||
| Casual Friends | Register | Register | |||
| Catholic | Register | Register | Register | ||
| Chinese | Register | ||||
| Christian | Register | Register | Register | ||
| Equestrians | Register | ||||
| Filipinos | Register | ||||
| Fitness Singles | Register | Register | |||
| French | Register | ||||
| Friends | Register | ||||
| Gay Men | Register | Register | |||
| Gay Millionaires | Register | ||||
| Germans | Register | ||||
| Goths | Register | ||||
| Greeks | Register | Register | |||
| Greens | Register | ||||
| Indians | Register | Register | Register | ||
| Intellectuals | Register | ||||
| Interracial Dating | Register | Register | |||
| Italians | Register | ||||
| Japanese | Register | ||||
| Jews | Register | Register | Register | ||
| Koreans | Register | Register | |||
| Latin Americans | Register | Register | Register | Register | |
| Lesbians | Register | Register | |||
| Military Personnel | Register | Register | |||
| Milllionaires | Register | Register | |||
| Mormons | Register | Register | |||
| Muslims | Register | ||||
| Nudists | Register | ||||
| Older Women | Register | ||||
| Pet Lovers | Register | ||||
| Russian | Register | ||||
| Seniors | Register | Register | Register | Register | |
| Single Parents | Register | Register | Register | ||
| STD | Register | ||||
| Tall People | Register | ||||
| Tattoo Lovers | Register | ||||
| The Deaf | Register | Register |
How To Succeed With Affiliate Dating Sites – Part 1
How To Succeed With Affiliate Dating Sites – Part 3
How To Succeed With Affiliate Dating Sites – Part 1
Before we try to identify the best dating affiliate programs it might be worth reviewing what we mean by affiliate dating sites and the various types of programs and other options open to anyone thinking of expending time, energy, money on promoting sites.
If you're an experienced affiliate then you can skip the following summaries and proceed to the sections which list the dating site programs available to you. They are categorised by niche or speciality so whatever your personal or business choice it should be possible to quickly determine the right programs for you.
Affiliate Marketing
Affiliate marketing is term used to describe the process by which an individual or business promotes or markets any company's products or services with the goal of generating sales which in turn result in commissions earned for the affiliate marketeer. The business or individual who promotes in this way is known simply as an affiliate and the business or brand whose products he/she/they promote is known as the merchant.
The relationship between affiliate and merchant could be direct or through the services of an affiliate network. Affiliate networks manage the affiliate programs for dozens or perhaps hundreds of merchants and at the same time provide detailed performance statistics for both affiliates and merchants. They also provide the affiliates with tools in the form of text, banner, and other linking mechanisms. They may also provide datafeeds and widgets which can greatly assist the affiliate in incorporating the merchants products into the affiliates' website(s).
Affiliates are paid commission on sales usually a month or more in arrears. The commission total usually has to reach a threshold before the affiliate can expect any payment. This gives the merchant time to check that the sales are genuine (no fraud) and final (no returns), and it also helps to streamline the administration for the merchant network.
White Label Dating Sites
White label is a term used to describe a product or service that does not have brand identity assigned to it. White label products can be bought in bulk under license, branded and packaged, then sold to consumers or businesses.
White label dating sites then are websites services that are provided by a company, but which are then promoted by affiliates or partners who put their own brand on the site. The white label company remains in the background providing all the technical and administrative support, while the partners or affiliates carry out all the site promotion. Sales generated from the subscriptions of site members are split between the two partners. Partners can be of any size ranging from individuals working on their own and in their spare time, to small businesses, and to large corporations who have a distinct identity in the market already and who want to add a dating site to their existing presence online.
Niche Dating Sites
Niche dating sites are those designed to cater for a common interest, racial group, origin, belief, occupation or some other aspect of a person's lifestyle which forms a strong and large part of their life and which therefore put them into an identifiable category. The idea of niche dating websites is that 'like attracts like', and that the common interest, background, or belief establishes a bond with anyoe who shares the same outlook.
This idea has been tested and proven many times and there are now hundreds of speciality dating websites. This makes them ideally suited for affiliates who want to join an affiliate dating program because the market much narrower and therefore there is less competition, unlike the general, all purpose dating sites which are much more numerous. If an affiliate already manages a website that is within a particular category then they have the ideal audience for the promotion of a dating site for that niche.
For example, if you run a business site, hobby site, or blog that attracts visitors who share an interest in keeping fit then it makes perfect sense to add links and banners that promote a fitness dating site.
How To Succeed With Affiliate Dating Sites – Part 2
How To Succeed With Affiliate Dating Sites – Part 3
