Promoting Dating Sites

The following is a repost from the Adult Affiliate 911 blog. I felt that the information might be useful for affiliates in general and not specific only to adult affiliates.

The following text comes straight from my own webpage on the official Jobkiller's Club site. So I did create it myself, but it isn't original to this blog.
Passion.com is a FREE TO JOIN affiliate program that has the potential to bring in good money with diligence and creativity in promoting. Around here, we like free and big potential money making!

Dating sites are very popular these days. You can even build your own web page to promote several. There is potential for excellent money from promoting such programs.
Passion.com offers material that is "provocative, not pornographic," which makes it safe for all web hosts. They also have more risque sites, such as Adult Friend Finder, that you can promote as well.
Don't have a site? No problem! Passion.com hosts their own content and provides you with an HTML code including your affiliate ID so you don't have to worry about storage.
When promoting on a traffic exchange, be careful to check their rules. Some exchanges will not allow promotion of any dating sites. Others will allow you to promote a banner but not a web page.
If you would like to create a page and promote more explicit "adult" sites such as Adult Friend Finder (which is owned by Passion.com) be sure you have a host that is adult friendly. After an embarrassing incident of my own trying to promote adult programs and getting my entire account (including non-adult sites) temporarily suspended, I found Host Gator. As long as you aren't promoting kiddie porn (and if you are, this vulture wants to peck your eyes out) Host Gator allows most adult content. Check 'em out. Very affordable, lots of great features, even a site builder for the less HTML proficient among us! I love Host Gator and think you will too.

Turnkey E-Book Store

I just ordered my own. The basic package is only $7. For this price you get the store and your affiliate link. You'll need a place to host your store, and I recommend Host Monster. If you click the link, you can read my previous review of my beloved hosting company.
Back to the e-book store. For $7 you get customizable templates, the ability to add your own products, and earning capabilities from Amazon, Adsense, and your own affiliate links as well as the books. You also get four nice bonus programs.
Should you choose to sign up, you will be given a one-time offer for $37. Personally, I loathe one time offers. Many people are just starting out and are on a limited budget. Why not let them upgrade at their leisure? One time offers make me feel like I'm at a used car lot with a pushy salesperson in a bad suit with bad teeth trying to sell me on a car that I really don't want but which will make him or her a bigger commission. However, I had to admit that you get a heck of a lot of bang for your buck with this one-time offer. You get seven audio books, six videos, four home study courses, and some extra internet marketing programs. You can use all of these yourself and resell them in creative ways as well. I'm still in the process of downloading everything as I write this. In this case, the one-time offer is worth it. I'm actually looking forward to listening to the audio series and exploring the training courses.
I also wanted to recommend a new traffic exchange. Best British Traffic allows you to promote 5 URL's for free, 20 on a gold membership for $10.95 a year, or 50 on a Platinum membership, which is just $14.95 for a year. That's a year, not a month like some exchanges. I have upgraded to Platinum. Click the banner below to check them out.

Web Hosting: Host Monster

You may be wanting to start a website for your new affiliate business or personal page. There are free web hosts, but if you want to have more control and not have all of your pages with links advertising your web host, you need a real domain host. I do use Host Monster for many of my sites, and it is very good at only $6.95 per month. You can add unlimited domains and your first domain is free for life. You can also join their free affiliate program and get $65 commission on every new customer that comes to them through your link. Very cool! Yes, I will stick with Host Monster.

However, there is one complaint that I have about Host Monster, and that complaint involves their Web Page Wizard. Page Wizard is better than many WYSIWYG design programs, but my overall rating of it is two out of five vacuums. In other words, it sucks. However, I do not have the funds at this time to buy either Dream Weaver or pay a web designer, and I really didn't care for Front Page, although I may give it another shot.

Here are the things that I don't like about Page Wizard.

You can't go in and change the HTML. It won't save. You can change the page HTML from file manager, but it won't transfer to Page Wizard.

Page Wizard does not support Javascript. Come the hell into the 21st century already!

In spite of the half-assed nature of Page Wizard, Host Monster is an excellent hosting company. Click the banner to check them out.