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As bloggers, one of the most important statistics for our blog is how much we are earning per visitor. While it’s great to have a site that gets a lot of traffic, if you are blogging to make money, tracking your visitor stats will only get you so far.

With a blog you have a lot of options for how to monetize your traffic, such as Google Adsense, paid placement advertising and affiliate marketing. Affiliate marketing is quickly becoming one of the biggest sources of revenue for sites and blogs of all sizes, simply because you get paid every time a user takes a specific action on your site (and usually don’t need to buy anything). If you are focusing on niche specific sites, then you should definitely be looking at affiliate marketing as one of the best ways to monetize your sites.

How Bloggers Can Make Money with Affiture Network

Affiture is an affiliate network that is focused on providing affiliates, site owners and bloggers with high quality offers that can be promoted through various traffic methods. Affiture is also a division of CPX Interactive, a success online media company with over a decade of experience.

In the world of online marketing, it seems like many ad networks come and go with time. However, it’s important to note that CPX Interactive is a company that has been around for over 10 years now and one that I had used to monetize many of my sites in the past. This means you are not only working with a company that has experience, but one that also has the necessary connections and funding to stand the test of time and know what it takes to create success in this industry.

Affiliate Offers Found within Affiture

With so many different ad networks already out there, it’s important to know what offers are running on each of them. With a solid collection of over 500+ different offers, there is no doubt that you will find at least a handful of quality offers to may convert well with your existing blog audience.

The majority of offers on Affiture are mobile pin submits, freebies, dating, downloads and gaming, along with a selection of exclusive offers that are only found within their network. The commission rates will vary based on the offers selected and can range anywhere from under a dollar to over $200 per lead.

You can see an updated chart of the highest converting offers on the network right now below.

After finding an offer that looks like it might convert well with your audience, you can decide how you would like to promote it (based off the offer restrictions). Each offer allows for a different means of promotion, but Affiture has you covered on these many different methods… such as on-site placement (text links), email, search, video, banners, newsletters, incentived (and non), co-registration.

Find an offer. View it’s advertising terms. Promote it and make money.

How Affiture Sends Out Payments

Affiture sends out payments to affiliates on a Net15 basis when the minimum payment of $50 is earned. Bi-Monthly Net 15 payments are available to any affiliate that earns over $1,000 monthly. Weekly payments are sent out to affiliates earning in excess of $1,000 per week.

Payments are sent out through Paypal, check, ACH and wire transfer (depending on monthly earnings).

How to Win a Apple Watch from Affiture

There is a lot of buzz and anticipation for the new Apple Watch, and if you don’t want to wait in long lines or pay a few hundred dollars to get one of your own, Affiture has a great opportunity for you!

Affiture is giving away ten (10) Apple Watches to their top performing publishers between the promotion period of April 1st through June 30th.

If you already have a high traffic blog or ad campaigns running elsewhere, why not test your traffic with some of the offers from Affiture and see if you can get your hands on a free Apple Watch in the process?

How to Join Affiture Affiliate Network

There are many affiliate networks out there for you to choose from, but not many of them are backed by a well known name like CPX Interaction. For this reason alone, it should be worth your time to fill out an application on their site and register to become an affiliate. Once approved, you can login and start promoting offers through your site or existing traffic sources.

In addition to gaining access their 500+ affiliate offers, you will also be in the running for their Apple Watch giveaway.

After registering with Affiture, you will get an email from their team on your approval and also be setup with an affiliate manager. Be sure to take advantage of your affiliate manager, by asking them about the best offers on the network. how to promote them and if there is any room for a payout increase with volume.

One of the more effective ways to monetize your website or to make money on the Internet in general is with affiliate marketing. And you have the choice between so many affiliate networks. Another network that you may consider using is called Cost1Action and it makes some pretty big promises for all the publishers in the audience.

The Affiliate Network That Pays Daily?

When you first arrive on the Cost1Action website, you are immediately hit with a few bold statements. For example, you’re told that they can pay daily.

The vast majority of other affiliate networks typically pay on a monthly cycle, so to have the opportunity for daily cashflow is certainly appealing, right off the bat. As the statements come cycling through the main page, we also learn that Cost1Action offers “high payouts than any others networks.” There are certainly some grammatical concerns with their website copy, following with odd statements like “The world is business. Take your action to be in the business.”
But we probably shouldn’t be judging a book by its cover like that, especially in the context of affiliate marketing where the only thing that matters is the money, right? From what I can gather, Cost1Action is fairly typical in its approach with a ready-to-use API, over 500 incentive offers, 24/7 support, exclusive offers, free training and a rewards program.

The Familiar Has Offers Interface

After filling out the standard signup form, you only need to wait one to two business days in order for your account to be approved. There may be a Skype interview involved to verify who you are and the information that you provide about your promotion methods.

Once you have been approved, you’ll gain access to the main Cost1Action affiliate dashboard shown above. Veterans of affiliate marketing may recognize that this is based on the popular Has Offers platform, offering the same familiar navigation and layout style. You access your offers, reports and tools along the left sidebar. Contact information for your account manager is found below that.
At the top, there is a pull down menu for your account and this is where you would enter your billing information as well. Payment is available via PayPal or Payoneer with no fees or via bank wire with a $60 fee. Remember when I mentioned that daily payments were a possibility?
This is dependent on your performance and your traffic quality. Cost1Action makes these decisions on a case-to-case basis. If you don’t have “junk traffic” and if your revenue level is sufficient, then you can likely expect a net-15 schedule. There is no mention of a specific payment threshold, though I imagine one exists.

Hundreds of Offers at Your Fingertips

According to the homepage of Cost1Action, they boast that they have over 400 offers in their inventory. Browsing through the offer list in the affiliate dashboard, however, yielded closer to 400 offers across such categories as mobile, games, penny auctions, credit and loans, financial and online surveys.

A good international example would be the current offer from Booking.com. It will take traffic from a large number of countries and you earn a $10.50 CPA based on a valid booking. While there are some offers that are open to all affiliates, this particular example is restricted to approved affiliates only and you need to request approval.
What’s more, while different offers do allow different types of traffic, including incentivized or mobile traffic, this example does not allow for incentives, SMS, email marketing, search PPC, classified ads or co-registration. Each offer page is very specific in defining what promotions are and aren’t allowed.
If you would like to focus on incentivized traffic, you can filter for that particular category when browsing through the offer list.

Getting Ready to Take Action

On the surface, Cost1Action covers many of the major points that you’d want out of an affiliate network. The back end is simple yet robust, you have access to hundreds of offers, and you have a dedicated account manager too. Cost1Action even says that they’re willing to help with unique methods for every traffic source, outfitting you with the tools you need to succeed. Whether or not you find success promoting offers through this network is ultimately up to you.