Affiliate Junktion - FORGET IT!

I have never been so mad with an Affiliate Marketing program as I am with Affiliate Junktion. This is a program I joined when I first started in February. Of course, I didn't know much at all about marketing when I started, so I get very few signups.

Around September I started using Google & Yahoo advertising. I needed to make some real money with this stuff and I figured the exchanges were okay, but I needed immediate response. With PPC, I got it.

In September I got 2,148 confirmed leads. If you don't know much about Affiliate Junktion, this is the summed up version.

You get a $75 sign up bonus when you buy hosting ($60). You upload your site and then you start advertising. You get paid $2 per lead. When you hit $200 in earnings (excluding the bonus), you get paid.

Here are the problems I found over my past 3 months advertising:

NZD - That's right - Instead of $2/lead in USD, they switched the platform to NZD. At the time, that was about 70cents on the dollar, so you still got about $1.40/lead - Not that bad. As time has gone on, that same NZD is now worth about 52cents.

So for each $2 lead, you are barely getting a little over $1

But it gets better. See they don't actually pay for these "leads" - Nope, what they do is they keep all these leads in Pending Status. The payment terms USED to be 30 days after the month commissions were earned. Now it's 45 days. That money that I earned in September was JUST released yesterday (November 30th)

It Gets EVEN BETTER PEOPLE! Here is the real kicker - You know that whole "Paid for Free Leads" thing they advertise? Well, I sent nothing but Yahoo & Google PPC advertising to get my 2,148 leads in September - How much are they going to pay me? $1,473....NZD - This works out to be about $750ish -

That $1,473 NZD INCLUDES my previous earnings of $193 (Including my bonus and the previous signups)

So for me spending about $1,300 in PPC advertising in JUST September, I am getting back ROUGHLY $800....60 days AFTER I spent all that money.

Affiliate Junktion holds onto the payments for that long because not all these leads are "approved" - Now, I understand normal terms and conditions. I'm not some huge whiner who thinks I should make what the owner of a company makes. But by them paying 1,473NZD they cut off nearly 70% of my APPROVED LEADS! (Not clicks - I got THOUSANDS of clicks, these are just the "confirmed leads" that I was SUPPOSED to be paid for....

Cutting off 10-20% of my leads I MIGHT understand - But 70%!?!?!?!

What does Affiliate Junktion make from users who buy hosting? An IPower Affiliate Earns $100 per signup

So even if only 10% of my 2,148 signups followed through, Affiliate Junktion would have made over $20,000 - Oh, and I'm just GUESSING, but I would assume they get paid in USD still.

I think 10% of my signups would be too low actually - I think Affiliate Junktion sells itself damn nicely and I would venture to say that closer to 20% of my leads would actually follow up and use the program.

Now obviously I don't actually KNOW how many of my signups went through and bought hosting. But doesn't 10% seem like a reasonable number? My 2,148 signups were people who visited my AJ site, clicked through and THEN left their name & email to figure out more info -

Wouldn't it make sense that at least 10% of those people, after giving name & email info, would actually follow through with the program?

So out of $20,000 (Probably more), I am getting about $800...And that's AFTER I spent close to $1,300 on advertising to get those leads.

This payment is just for September. In November my Affiliate Junktion signups went way down. I kept sending in 180 to 220 clicks daily, but suddenly I was only getting 15-20 signups/day. I changed my site to something I thought looked better, and I sent in a support ticket.

I got a response that users were committing some type of fraud, so they implemented some type of double confirmation for a lead to count.

Over the past 2 weeks my "leads" haven't even covered my advertising costs.

Affiliate Junktion has changed the terms and conditions of their website continuously over the past 3 months. NZD was just the start. They used to have a program where if you got 2,500 signups/month, for 3 months, you would start earning $4/lead. That is now gone. When I first signed up in February they paid $2-$5/lead - USD - Now it's $2, but NZD - IF you don't get 70% of your leads slashed, of course.

Affiliate Junktion offers no residual income. You get the $2/lead (if you actually ever get it) and that's it - They offer no bonuses - They took that away. They also had a guarantee of $150/day in your first 30 days when I first signed up in February - That was cancelled by March...

I also get nothing but robotic email responses to my inquiries -

I am fed up with Affiliate Junktion myself. The program seems like such a great way to make money online, but the actuality is that they don't take care of affiliates AT ALL. Maybe it doesn't matter - Maybe they have so many now that a couple of unhappy people won't bother them one bit. But as for me, I know I have a lot of people ask me about Affiliate Junktion. I used to say go for it, it's an easy way to make money...Get paid for free leads you know?

But the reality is that they change the terms & conditions whenever they feel like it. The NZD payments structure is incredibly cheap. And the slashing of 70% of leads is outright wrong - Remember, those are the actual LEADS - not just people who "visit" the site - The banner ads of Affiliate Junktion say "Get Paid for Free Leads!" - It's a crock -

No bonuses, no residual long term income. Forget them - I'm going back to focus on GDI. I don't need a company that changes terms and conditions any time they please. And I may not be some top marketing guru with thousands of fans, but I do have about 100 visitors every day. I'm going to tell each one of them about it - I hope I can save you from making the same mistakes -

Brand new Downline Builder that looks AWESOME

Tonight I got an email from Michael Cobb - The owner of Home Income Team and someone who REALLY taught me alot about online marketing. So when I get an email from him, even on a massive email list, I open it.

He sent me a link to Affiliate Funnel, which I had heard about before but hadn't checked out yet. Unlike so many people I hear talking about how "busy" they are, I actually AM really busy :)

So I went to check it out - And I'm very impressed.

It's a COMPLETE business building tool. Instead of joining to promote OTHER peoples programs, you get to enter YOUR programs. Also, you get to enter your affiliate id's for 20 different exchanges. It also includes a ton of lessons for everything from using Traffic Exchanges to safelists (yes, I'm going to be updating my power traffic course soon, cause this is better :)

Beyond all that you also get expert help and lessons from the TOP guys in internet marketing. The REAL guru's who know how to make money online

Affiliate Funnel is simply How to Make Money Online in a nutshell.

It is the best affiliate marketing building program I have seen yet.

And guess what else? It's free to join!

Of course there is an upgrade option. Myself, I signed up for the $67/year OTO - I got 10k credits at 10 top ranked exchanges and a bunch of free downloads (I probably won't use them - I actually hate free products because it basically just means it's MORE for me to do! LOL). But the 10k credits alone were worth the cost.

Free gives you good options also - you get everything except the credits. You still get referral money from upgraded members and you still get all the lessons and seminars.

With the Gold membership I get to promote 6 of my own programs, all by just promoting Affiliate Funnel! That's what I call a REAL downline builder -

Again, very simple - Lots more to it than the3Cash Machine, but very VERY valuable info.

You need to join Affiliate Funnel - You will build exchange referrals AND your own business at the same time. You will build a list you can email.

It's really the best complete online business building tool I have seen and I'm excited about joining it

Join Affiliate Funnel here

The Difference Between "FREE" Exchanges

Sometimes I forget how far I've come along from where I started in February. I've surfed so much that I kinda skip over the basic stuff too often. Even in my email series, I realized it's assuming that people already know how to surf and use firefox etc. Tonight I added the Traffic Splash section to my list of best exchanges. The reason was because it's one of the best FREE exchanges that I've found online.

Yes, technically all exchanges are free - But there is a MASSIVE difference in the amount of time you have to spend at most traffic exchanges. The most basic example I always give is Hit2Hit - Outstanding traffic exchange. Tons of members, easy to surf, always highly ranked by traffic hoopla. But for those who are just starting, they may not realize that Hit2Hit is a 3:1 surf ratio. What that means is that if you don't buy an upgraded membership, you have to surf 3 sites to get 1 hit on yours. In my opinion, this is not how you should spend your time! Now, if your willing to spend some money (like I do), then it's a great exchange. Same with MaxTraffic Pro and SWAT Traffic, Dragon Surf - There are tons of them - and the bottom line is it sucks. We need traffic to our sites. When I say traffic, I mean TONS of traffic. I used to think getting 30 hits a day was good - It's nothing - You have to get hundreds of hits each day to get results. You have to get thousands of hits per month if you REALLY want to get any type of results.

So when I list my best free exchanges, it's based on them actually being good if you do not want to spend any money. Of course the short 5 list is kinda short - Great "free" exchanges are few and far between these days.

But if you want to stay free, while still getting the best results possible for your time, then join WebBiz Insider, Traffic Splash, EasyHits4U, HitSafari & maybe ClickRanch. For me, these are the best free exchanges I've found online. You get regular bonuses, quick surf timers and fair surf ratios. 5 Exchanges is actually a pretty decent number of exchanges to work with. Learn to use Firefox and surf them all at the same time (different windows - tabbed browsing) and you'll be fine

Using Traffic Hoopla can be very beneficial in building up downlines for your overall traffic building. But keep it simple until you can handle everything. As good as CyberWheelers program was, they recommended I surf 3 hours/night! For me, that is a ridiculous amount of time to spend surfing. It is MUCH BETTER if you focus your time & energy on 4 or 5 GOOD exchanges, versus spreading yourself out all over getting a few hits here and there, trying to manage 20 "free" exchanges.

Bottom line is this - Unless you get some results, your going to get frustrated and most likely quit. If you spend your time wisely, you will start to get results. Focus on the best free exchanges and move up when your ready -