Your Affiliate Window experience

[linkr]

Most of my sites are about furniture and are primarily monetized with Adsense. However, I do have a couple of Affiliatewindow ads up there and so far I have recorded about 1.600 clicks without making a single sale. I'm a bit suspicious about AW and considering affiliate business is not my thing, I'd like to get some feedback from other AW users before I remove the ads completely.

What's you experience? Is it my problem in products? Is furniture just not selling online?

 

[lufc]

AW are one of the top networks out there and are certaintly one of the most professional.

What I would suggest is that the days of been able to just put a banner on a page and make decent sales has long gone.

For something like furniture, you need to do a lot of presale, ie good info, images, call to action etc to make sales.

If you need advice or if you have any concerns, AW are very approachable and will also try to help, give them an email of phone.

 

[FagEnd]

AWIN is a top network.
If you are displaying just banners then you will have a hard time converting to sales.
Are you sure it's 1600 clicks and not 1600 impressions? 1600 clicks would surely have converted something.

 

[getmein]

1600 clicks is a lot of clicks without a sale, why don't you try some of the furniture related merchant banners.

I find AWin very good, with customer services miles ahead of networks like TD.

 

[linkr]

It's approx. 43.000 impressions and 1.600 clicks. I thought this was a lot of clicks without a sale, this is why I opened the thread. As I said, I'm not too familiar with affiliate marketing, so I have no special tactics. Most of those are furniture company banners and some text links.

 

[FagEnd]

Can you post a link to the site in question? Might help with the analysis. 1600 clicks with no sales is a bit much.

 

[whiterabbit]

I had a site that was hitting fairly high volumes and I found that I was converting fairly well through some networks and not at all through others.

I contacted AW, as they were one I wasn't converting through, and they did a check to make sure that everything was recording correctly on the links (it was) and so I spent a while scratching my head before I started asking visitors to my site why they weren't using that merchant. The answer came back that their service was rubbish and they were expensive...

I switched to a different merchant and I saw conversions go up...

Might be worth asking your visitors/other people why they're not converting (if you can find a way)

WR

 

[FagEnd]

before I started asking visitors to my site why they weren't using that merchant. The answer came back that their service was rubbish and they were expensive...

I switched to a different merchant and I saw conversions go up...

Might be worth asking your visitors/other people why they're not converting (if you can find a way)

WR

If only things were that simple we'll all be millionaires this time next year Rodney.

I find it difficult enough to get my visitors to click through, never mind answer my questionaire. I'd love to know your secret Delboy.

 

[whiterabbit]

That's why I said 'if you can find a way' Boycie ;-) It's not easy, but there are ways...

Purely as an example - imagine your website sells top of the range TVs, your audience is likely to contain a decent percent of fairly knowledgeable audiovisual fans. Why not ask a similar group by going to AVForums.com or somewhere like that and ask what they think of the site/merchant/whatever? It's a similar audience and they're keen to give their opinions on most stuff. It might give you a steer, rather than guessing in the dark.

Hope this helps,
WR

 

[FagEnd]

That's why I said 'if you can find a way' Boycie ;-) It's not easy, but there are ways...

Purely as an example - imagine your website sells top of the range TVs, your audience is likely to contain a decent percent of fairly knowledgeable audiovisual fans. Why not ask a similar group by going to AVForums.com or somewhere like that and ask what they think of the site/merchant/whatever? It's a similar audience and they're keen to give their opinions on most stuff. It might give you a steer, rather than guessing in the dark.

Hope this helps,
WR

lol, at least you didn't call me Trigger

 

[Systreg]

lol, at least you didn't call me Trigger

@ Dave..... :lol:

 

[accelerator]

I have been using Affiliate Window for years and would vouch for them. I feel they are reliable and their technology is amongst the best of the networks. If you are finding a given merchant is not converting for you, then I would suggest reading up on conversion rate optimisation and try experimenting/testing with your site to improve matters.

Rgds

 

[expertc]

Interesting... To de honest AW banners are not something I use a lot, mostly feeds. But conversion rate is amongst the average in the industry (e.g. 1-2%), somehow better than CJ though. Maybe you should try products instead of general banners.