UPDATE: AGLOCO IS DEAD

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The Gamestop Affiliate program is one of the better ones out there for people who have sites around gaming, or just pop culture sites. If you have ever bought and sold video games before you know that the margin between retail and direct is not exactly large. A game retailing for $50 typically can be bought for around $40-42 if you aren’t a big time store out there. So the margin isn’t exceptional, and you still have to worry about the shipping, and the order processing.

The Gamestop program pays out 5% for almost everything so that would equate to about $2-4 a sale on most things. Not too shabby just to have a banner on your site or something.

At this point I don’t believe they have a referral program for the affiliate program, but if they did I would sure be promoting it…lol

Clickbooth was sort of an interesting program when I found it. Originally i was out looking for affiliate programs that offered coupon codes, but when I found this one I was rather impressed. The reason for that is that they have a ton of original offers that I haven’t seen on many other affiliate sites.

As an Adsense alternative I find it to be very useful on sites that aren’t particularly SEO friendly. Those sites that may have many topics such as pop culture sites, or sites that have content which has terrible Adsense payout rates.

Clickbooth has the kind of affiliate links and banners that are quick and easy for your visitors to complete, and sign up for. A lot of e-mail submits, as well as a lot of pop culture and eye catching ads. Great programs such as a $25 payout for programs such as showing people how they can become an extra in TV shows, or movies. They just sign up for it and it gives them listing for their area of what shows/movies in a reasonable distance that they can show up for. All they have to do is get referred and you make the cash. Who doesn’t want to make a few hundred dollars a week being an Extra in a movie?

Sign up for Clickbooth and make sure to utilize their generous referral program as well. They pay you $10 for every referral you send them PLUS 2% of your referred publisher’s income for LIFE. Not just 6 months like many of the other places do. The $10 sign up bonus is also gold. You can’t go wrong with that.

Also, I recommend that you contact your affiliate manager when you sign up. They will help you set up a plan for your website and give you the best performing ads to help make you the most cash. I can’t stress this enough. In fact I would recommend it, not just for Clickbooth, but for any affiliate program in which you place ads on your site. You may know your visitors well, but surely an affiliate manger has more data than you do as to how certain ads perform based on your demographics.

Also, Pay Per Click marketing is quite useful for most of these campaigns. With the use of PPC you don’t even need to have a high traffic website already. In many cases you will want to create a new site with a couple of pages for these campaigns as they are more targeted to what searchers are looking for. Obviously you are going to want to look for low cost clicks that convert, but a good way to start with PPC is to use Yahoo! Sponsored Search lists your business on top sites like Yahoo!, AltaVista and CNN. Sign up and get a $25 credit..

I don’t know how many of you have noticed this yet, but AGLOCO has disappeared off the face of the planet. No explanation. No warnings. If you try to go to their website it is a dead link. Even their blog was never updated again after October.

I’m sure most of you, like myself gave up on Agloco long ago. Their ridiculous explanations on their Viewbar. The delays after delays in getting it out. This company was pretty much BSing everyone that followed them. Most of us assumed they would never make it, and we were right.

There are a couple of things that I really found disturbing about them while they were around, however. First, was the fact that they never said a word to anyone when they shut it all down. They just killed their website and stopped updating the affiliates. The last e-mail i believe I received from Agloco was back in November and that e-mail went on to say something about how they couldn’t afford to pay out any dividends to the affiliates at this time. Just one month after they detailed how they were going to pay out affiliates, and saying that they were raising the payout per hour.

The most disturbing thing in Agloco’s short history had to do with a request that we received from the management team in I suppose was October 2007. This wasn’t publicly issued. This was sent to the affiliates via e-mail. In the e-mail the management team requested that we use the Viewbar to search through their main sponsor Ask.com. No big deal. Good idea. Well… if you kept reading that e-mail they went on to ask that once you did a search with Ask.com that you would CLICK ON THEIR SPONSORED ADS. Can you believe this? If anyone has ever been part of an ad program of any sort they know that this is the biggest no no there is. It is stealing money from the advertisers for personal gain, and will get you kicked out of every program almost instantly if you are caught.

My theory is that Ask.com dumped Agloco and they had no other option, but to fold. After getting that e-mail asking for clicks, I had no reason to think they would be around much longer anyways. That was a desperate measure. In fact that request was likely forwarded to ask.com by many who received it and they should have immediately dumped Agloco, and then sued them on top of it.