top affiliate blogs and forums (15)
im doing a monthly traffic update on most popular blogs and forums for affiliates.
keen to make sure im not missing any -
here is the list of the top ones i have:
let me know which other big ones i should be tracking.
full details on my medium post
ps here is the full list im monitoring sofar:
6wamc.com
abestweb.com
adultmediabuying.com
advertcn.com
affbuzz.com
affdaily.com
affengineer.com
affhelper.com
affiliate-forum.se
affiliate-marketing.de
affiliatefix.com
affiliateforum.nl
affiliatehelp.info
affiliatepeople.com
affilorama.com
affpaying.com
affplaybook.com
affposts.com
amnavigator.com
associateprograms.com
blog.ads.pof.com
blog.whatrunswhere.com
bryn.me
charlesngo.com
ctrtard.com
duiqianba.com
dukeo.com
erikgyepes.com
fbqueen.me
finchsells.com
hackerdecroissance.com
iamattila.com
ianfernando.com
imgrind.com
imjetset.com
insideaffiliate.net
ipyxel.com
justindupre.com
kjrocker.com
lukepeerfly.com
madsociety.net
malandarras.com
matuloo.com
mobaffblog.com
mobyaffiliates.com
mrgreen.am
nickycakes.com
oliverkenyon.com
oooff.com
performinsider.com
performoutsider.com
pmcircles.com
ppc.bz
ppvguru.com
premium23.com
productsquad.com
rileypool.com
rohailrizvi.com
stackthatmoney.com
stmblog.ru
stmforum.com
wallofmonitors.com
zacjohnson.com
John Chow and ShoeMoney's blogs not as big as they used to be?
Just FYI, similarwebs data is completely off, it shows 10 times as much visits for some of the blogs you have listed 
It also shows more visits for my blog, but not so much, the numbers seems to be more distant from reality for longer running sites. It also seems to ignore the growth of my traffic, I had 3 times as much visitors in april than I had in february for example. What it got right though is my low amount of search traffic ... gotta work on that a bit.
Their data is better than nothing, it's a good way of finding similar sites, but I wouldn't base any traffic lists on it. It's just not reliable at all.
Originally Posted by thegoldguy
Originally Posted by matuloo
....Their data is better than nothing, it's a good way of finding similar sites, but I wouldn't base any traffic lists on it. It's just not reliable at all.
Although maybe not accurate, it's the best data I have found. I have noticed for smaller traffic sites that the stats are often skewed.
But for comparison purposes in my experience its pretty accurate way of determining what is getting more traffic and where it is coming from.
Would you be happy sharing real stats over the period. I can pull some more info if you want. Always keen to benchmark SimWeb accuracy
Originally Posted by tijn
That's more like traffic numbers of a decent porn site and not an affiliate blog. The real number would be more like 2-3k per day on average - depending on whether we are looking at uniques or raw hits and also what traffic analytics tool we would use.The problem with these tools is that they collect their info mostly from toolbar users etc, and that is not really a statistically representative sample, so the habits and preferences of the users can be skewed in one way or the other.
Originally Posted by matuloo
That's more like traffic numbers of a decent pornWhat about your blog - how many visits in April?
There is this site (not sure how well its updated) with list of some blogs (its a kinda rss parser): http://www.affbuzz.com/
Thank you.
Originally Posted by tijn
I used that "porn site" example just to demonstrate that 17k visits (uniques) a day is VERY hard to achieve in a rather small niche, that paid traffic affiliate marketing definitely is. Obviously, 17k would be nothing for an adult tube for example, but adult is not just about tubes, there are adult site types that could make SERIOUS piles of cash with 17k visits a day (review site for example).I know traffic stats for 2 other blogs from the large lists, plus I know the traffic of my blog ... I compared the real traffic figures with what similarweb shows, so I could see it is totally off, especially with the older sites from some reason. That's where I got the "10 times more" figure from. The fact that similarweb totally ignored the growth of my blog is also a sign of inaccuracy ... Anyways, by looking at the data I have access to, I would be quite surprised if the blog of Charles had more than 3000 visits a day ON AVERAGE. Wouldn't put my hand into fire for it obviously, it's an estimate based on the data I have access to.
As for my blog, google analytics shows about 11k visits in April, the JetPack stats plugin from WP shows a bit more, about 13k. These includes repeat visits, so the number of really unique visitors will be lower.
Originally Posted by matuloo
Its showing 23k unique visitors with about 59k visits in total for April.
Of course GA and the like will not show users with Adblock on? 11% average in 2016, but maybe lower (or higher) for AMs
Originally Posted by matuloo
lastly what about the top pages in April - how accurate is that?
20% homepage
15% to http://matuloo.com/what-is-dating-an...-dating-offers
7% to http://matuloo.com/blacklists-or-whi...buying-traffic
4.6% to http://matuloo.com/why-newbies-shoul...ve-tier-1-geos
I can confirm that similarweb is often off, especially on small traffic.
Still, humbled to appear in the list amongst the big boys 
Merci!
Attila and Matuloo's blog are really awesome, love reading their articles.
In the shadows of these legends, we also decided to develop our own blog to keep on contributing knowlegde to the industry.
http://blog.addiliate.com/
Great list. Thank you!
Thanks for compiling this! Great info.
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Every Wednesday we have a new post with a focus on affiliate marketing topics.
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