Ah, gotta love allposters

[johnny6]

Opened my mail yesterday and found a letter from allposters. A signed Christmas card from their staff... and in was... candycanes! No, just joking. Even better - a $100 check. Never a bad thing.
IN my opinion it's a great affiliate program. I always make a nice slice of cash each month and the staff is reliable and helpful.
I like it so much that I put together a very very very basic store - www.posteredge.com - and a very straightforward page of instructions - www.posteredge.com/instructions.htm

You should sign up! (naturally, if you signup from the link on posteredge.com, I'll help you out along the way).

Merry Christmas,
John

 

[Joe123]

Thank you for your reply. I hope we hear something from allposters on this soon.

Right now, I believe that they aren't tracking sales correctly. Judging from stats, I believe that they're tracking visitors and specific items visited correctly, but something goes haywire when it comes to tracking sales. My conversion rates have just plummeted in the last month or two - I have a hard time believing that's just a natural progression.

 

[domainnuts]

Has anyone heard from allposters? Is anyone making any money at it? Do people still have their poster sites up and are updating them?

 

[Joe123]

Has anyone heard from allposters? Is anyone making any money at it? Do people still have their poster sites up and are updating them?

It seems ridiculous, but with the skeleton of a webpage at http://posters.sg/ I have had over $120 in orders (over $30 commission) this month. My traffic is less than 1 unique per day. I'm not complaining

 

[FusunMedia]

Has anyone heard from allposters? Is anyone making any money at it? Do people still have their poster sites up and are updating them?

I believe sales tracking is still faulty because I've had over 24,000 clicks and not one sale in the past month.

 

[andriegel]

I believe sales tracking is still faulty because I've had over 24,000 clicks and not one sale in the past month.

Holly Smokes! And I thought my conversion ratio was bad...

Calle 'em up and see what they say. What's your url(s)?

I made around $11.00 last month for poster sales... It's been frustrating and I am no longer devoting any resources to the development of posters even though I have some kick-ass names ready to go. The ROI is just too low, IMHO

Good luck to all!

 

[Brian]

Has anyone heard from allposters? Is anyone making any money at it? Do people still have their poster sites up and are updating them?

I believe sales tracking is still faulty because I've had over 24,000 clicks and not one sale in the past month.

Also, depending on how active the seach engines are crawling your site, a lot of them click throughs could be the bots.

 

[Scott]

Hmm. $550ish commission last month. No problems.

 

[domainnuts]

Well, I'm glad to hear people have had some success with it. I hope there are no tracking problems with people that have had excessively low sales. I created a movie posters site some time ago and was going to promote it, then all of this bologna began......

I guess I'll continue to promote it anyway. Just got my highspeed working again, so things should be easier.

 

[walkerswelt]

MovieGoods

Personally I have tried Allposters and didn't do a thing for me. I'm using Moviegoods affiliate program now. And I actually get help from REAL people instead of bots.
This is the one I recommend:
http://www.moviegoods.com/affiliate2/join.asp

 

[domainnuts]

Huh........ I might actually try that. But, my site is not that popular yet. I'm still looking for ways to make it popular - submit to a large multi-directory search engine submit service - or submit to a smaller service and do some of the work of other directories myself? Not sure.

 

[IAmAllanShore]

Allposters has become (in my opinion) too easy to "dupe" by bots/spyware as they only need to have a macro-replace to find the aid and replace it with their own digits in the url. It's standard.
Amazon had the same problem, took 2 years + to get rid of most of the scumware commissions to make it so it wasn't profitable for the scumware to continue devoting resources. But AllPosters will have to be the ones to decide that it is worth it to them to stop those sales.
-Allan

 

[Gene]

Allposters has become (in my opinion) too easy to "dupe" by bots/spyware as they only need to have a macro-replace to find the aid and replace it with their own digits in the url. It's standard.
Amazon had the same problem, took 2 years + to get rid of most of the scumware commissions to make it so it wasn't profitable for the scumware to continue devoting resources. But AllPosters will have to be the ones to decide that it is worth it to them to stop those sales.
-Allan

Allan, would you explain this a bit more? I guess the gist of your message is that sales are being stolen. But how exactly does this happen? Is it "scumware" (whatever that is) resident on the customer's computer that switches out the digits in the url of a sale?

 

[IAmAllanShore]

Allan, would you explain this a bit more? I guess the gist of your message is that sales are being stolen. But how exactly does this happen? Is it "scumware" (whatever that is) resident on the customer's computer that switches out the digits in the url of a sale?

Sure!

It is usually scumware (Malware, spyware, whatever you call it. It's a program on the shopper's computer that "supports" some "free" program, or that snuck on there by activex popup/plugin) that replaces the real affiliate ID with their own. "Gator" was one of the most famous ones of these (Back in the day with Amazon.com and others) that was a piece of software that sought out anything with the correct code on the page (Like aid= or tag= or whatever the affiliate program uses) and replaces it.
Because Allposters only has 1 format of link (As opposed to CJ or others that the affiliate links could be buried in different formats and different URLs) it is more "open" to being changed by automatic replacement.
The second method is a little more high-tech, but amounts to replacing the cookie on the machine to track clicks with one that would be from one of the scumware's link instead of their own. Especially prevelant in casino affiliate links supposedly (Although I can't speak to this).
If you go back in the archives at http://forums.prosperotechnologies.com/n/mb/listsf.asp?webtag=am-associhelp&nav=start&ctx=10 you can see Amazon's response to the issue and the associates concerns and own investigative efforts.
-Allan

 

[domainsusi]

Well - I'm not impressed

Promoting their stuff for over a month and not one single sale.

Gonna have to look elsewhere.

Suggestions anyone ?

 

[andriegel]

Domainsusi, what kind of affiliates are you looking for?
Right now, I am doing best with viagra, credit cards, merchant accounts, and music download subscriptions.
leave a message here or email to: andrew at websales.us

good luck!

Andrew

 

[domainnuts]

Wow, Allen, that's interesting (and irritating). However, wouldn't that require the people with sucky sales to have customers consisting mostly of people with infected machines and the people with good sales consisting of cutomers with good machines?

Rick

 

[andriegel]

Hi Guys:
Just checking in... Any reports for a good Christmas Season?

 

[godinu]

I've made exactly $0 in sales. I haven't advertised at all though, so hopefully once i get some linkage going I can make some sales. allposters was the first affiliate I tried when i was brand new with domaining and I guess I was silly to think people would find my site on their own (even with an ok decent domain name). I know a lot more now and know I can change things later on.

 

[DomainBELL]

wondering if anyone would care to update their progress with ANY of the POSTER affiliate programs....

are there others ??


and wondering what - andriegel - ended up finding for the Christmas Season of 2005... and any pre-plans for the season in 2006 ??

~DomainBeLL (Patricia)

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[johnny6]

wondering if anyone would care to update their progress with ANY of the POSTER affiliate programs....

are there others ??


and wondering what - andriegel - ended up finding for the Christmas Season of 2005... and any pre-plans for the season in 2006 ??

~DomainBeLL (Patricia)

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My quick update... I moved away from putting any attention on allposters - but, I still have 3 sites up, including a seriously heinously ugly one - that still combine to make about $100 a month with zilch work or attention... in fact it's always sort of a surprise when I get my monthly check from them!

I do think their tracking has gotten better...

 

[namey]

I haven't had any luck with allposters.

 

[DomainBELL]

My quick update... I moved away from putting any attention on allposters - but, I still have 3 sites up, including a seriously heinously ugly one - that still combine to make about $100 a month with zilch work or attention... in fact it's always sort of a surprise when I get my monthly check from them!

I do think their tracking has gotten better...

thanks for the update johnny....

have you ever purchased anything from one of the poster sites online ??

~DomainBELL (Patricia)




for sale:

 

[texasgamer]

well I just found this post...and just signed up with allposters! wish me luck

 

[andriegel]

Hey TexasGamer:
just out of curiosity, do you have any sites or names in mind to use with allposters?

Here's a few of mine if you are "in the market":

All-Posters .us
BeachPosters .net
Black-Light-Poster .com LIVE
InspirationalPoster .us LIVE
NaturePosters .us LIVE
TravelPosters .us
EminemPosters .net LIVE
50centPosters .net LIVE
PosterAffiliates .com

LedZeppelinPoster .com
PinkFloydPoster .com
Green-Day .us
SnoopDogg .us
50Cent .ws
SherylCrow .us
DeadHeads .us
OzzyOsbourne .us
Howard-Stern .us
Osbourne .us

 

[texasgamer]

Those are certainly some nice names!
Pm me a price list
thanks