NichePursuits.com - Affiliate offer was shorting me...

I have a particular affiliate offer that I promote that typically was sending a few leads a day.
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However, I decided to move from one affiliate network to another affiliate network with the same offer.

The result?

Suddenly, I was getting almost no leads after an entire month...instead of a few leads a day.

I couldn't figure it out.

I hadn't changed my articles, the traffic source was the same, the landing page for the affiliate offer was the same.

The only thing that had changed was my affiliate link.

The new affiliate network I had moved to was Impact, and I was able to contact the affiliate manager for the particular offer I was promoting.

Turns out the affiliate offer had made a mistake when setting my affiliate link up and hadn't attached a campaign id! What!?

Based on my conversion rates and traffic when I was promoting this offer on the original affiliate network, I was expecting about $530 in earnings.

Turns out the affiliate manager is super cool, and is going to pay me the $530 out of good faith, even though the tracking wasn't working on their end properly.

Fortunately, my story has a good ending. I'm getting the back pay I was shorted, and my links are all working properly now.

I did nothing wrong on my end, but sometimes things like this happen.

The moral of the story?

If something looks off with your affiliate earnings, it's worth reaching out to the affiliate manager or company you are promoting.

Testing, tracking, and analyzing your affiliate links and earnings can help catch mistakes.

I personally have been using Affilimate for about a year now to track my affiliate earnings, and this is originally what triggered my questions with this particular affiliate offer.

You can check out Affilimate here.

Take Great Original Photos For Your Sites

You've probably heard that a picture is worth a thousand words.

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How Chris Walker Earns +$140k/Month From Multiple SEO-Related Income Streams

Want to see how to build an SEO agency and freelance marketplace?

Our latest guest interview on Niche Pursuits does that right here.

Chris Walker left his 9 to 5 in 2013 to get into affiliate marketing and SEO and has since become a multi-millionaire.

Today he shares:

• What his breakthrough moment was
• How he's developed his presence on multiple platforms
• Why and how he created Legiit
• How much he's earning
• His main marketing strategy
• His (ironic) views on SEO
• How he builds links
• The content creation strategy that gets him results
• His favorite resources and tools
• His greatest mistake
• The advice he would give to other entrepreneurs

​Get a wealth of knowledge from a Legiit, SEO Superstar here!​

New Niche Sites Available on Motion Invest

This 4 year and 8 month old pet site has just been added to the marketplace. The site is currently making an average of $244 per month from Amazon, Ezoic, and Clickbank.

The site has 253 posts live and an estimated 78% of current ranking keywords target an informational intent. This gives a new owner a lot of room to add affiliate content as well as updating existing content.

​Get more details here​

This 3 year, 3 months old bathroom site is also new to the marketplace. The site is making an average of $91 per month with 62 articles live.

Much of the sites traffic is coming from Bing and and only an estimated 34% of its ranking keywords target informational intent. This leaves a lot of room for creating more informational content an optimizing them for Google. The site is currently monetized via Amazon and Adsense with great opportunities to expand into different affiliate and ad programs.

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This 1 year, 7 month old automotive site makes an average of $65 per month from Amazon and Ezoic. The site has 173 posts live with less than 2000 monthly traffic so some time could be spent updating existing content.

Also an estimated 68% of the currently ranking keywords target an informational intent. So there are opportunities for a new owner to expand affiliate content and add more topics. There are also 401 missing affiliate tags which a new owner can easily fix to boost earnings.

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Thanks again for reading!

Spencer