My experience with an Affiliate Directory Submission service.
September 4, 2006
When I launched my Translation Gold product, which translates any web page into 9 major languages to really boost AdSense revenue, I thought I'd give one of those affiliate program submission services a try.
The service submitted my affiliate program to dozens of well ranked, high traffic, affiliate directories. They did their job. I checked up on them.
Almost two months later, the vast majority of my affiliates (at least the ones that actually made good sales) have come from my own personal affiliate-hunting efforts.
I always include the affiliate program information in the "thank you" email I send to my customers. That's where most of my affiliates came from, aside from the joint venture partners I contacted when the product launched.
So if you're thinking of spending money to have your affiliate program submitted to all of the top directories, my own experience has shown that it's probably not worth the money. Maybe it's worth it for the link popularity, but not for getting new affiliates on board.
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2 Responses to “My experience with an Affiliate Directory Submission service.”
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Jonathan Leger has been earning his living online full-time since the fall of 2004. He regularly posts advice about search engine optimization (his current passion), AdSense and Internet Marketing. 
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Any reason why you dont use your own translation tool on this website
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For anyone who like to do it the cheapskate way:
http://www.semmy.name/index.php/280/make-your-website-multilingual/
P.S. I still think those translations are outrageous funny.
Actually yes. As much as I'd like to (and I may change my mind in the future), because I have an opt-in list, I'm afraid of getting foreign-language speaking people on the list and then sending them English emails.
It would be rather confusing to them that they showed up, for instance, at a Spanish page and then are receiving English emails. They may not be able to understand the unsubscribe link, either, and then I'd have some angry folks on my hands and no way to communicate with them.