Hello! A fellow Newber here.
Currently learning the ropes to AM in the happy little newbie playground of mobile popups (so I don't leak too much $$ all over the place).
My question for the distant future is this:
Would it be a viable strategy to eventually pivot into Facebook and promote white hat offers on a CPS model? So selling high-quality products from CJ or ShareASale etc with low prices(payouts)? (kinda like ecomm but not really)
From what I understand you don't really need to cloak, farm accounts etc this way (unless you're too aggressive) because FB doesn't look too kindly on CPA offers, but can be lenient on CPS.
Could this be a viable long-term strategy for someone who wants to avoid black hatting all over the place? (if possible at all).
Facebook did $9.3 billion of revenue last quarter. That is $543 million of revenue every week. Most of this is from white hat activities.
Fair enough. Should've clarified - when I meant 'no-one doing it' I meant 'no-one' here. Or at least these isn't much talk of it on STM.
I have done some funeral CPS offers in the past in the Netherlands (without any LLA). That was doing very well did a decent xxxx profit monthly, although I must say in funeral/finance niche you get a lot of restrictions regarding usage of words/images. It's a touchy product/subject so regulations are tight. In the Netherlands for example a lot of people have 3 or 4 funeral insurances (without really knowing) so I can't say it will work in other geo's.
The offer must be really remarkable / unique to make it convert with so much restrictions. Ofcourse their enough CPS offers more dodgy to find so you have less restrictions, but I am only having experience with the "traditional" products.
On the long term having a couple of x/xx/xxx profitable CPS offers on the downlow is very smart, since these are in general products without too much changes/paused/caps.
Personally I am more fond of the BH offers, it's fast and pushes your boundaries on quick acting/being creative/finding quick solutions since it's so instable in general.
As I think nearly time White hat might be a more safe and easy way to make money.FB just crazy to the Black hat now.
I think you will find it tough to make things like CJ/Shareasale work with direct response campaigns. It's much like pushing people to Amazon products.
Terribly low commissions, sales pages that don't do much selling and are inflexible, lack of advanced tracking in most cases, and often quite boring products.
Thats true but with big brands everything depends on the cookie duration as a lot of conversions take time to come in.
Physical products on ShareASale tend to have commissions aimed at the SEO market, not the paid traffic market - as Zeno says, in line with Amazon and similar. You'll struggle to make paid traffic profitable on 10% payouts.
Having said that, some of the digital products on SaS and similar have much healthier margins, and could be worth a go. But the payouts still tend to be high, meaning that you'll need to invest a significant amount in testing per product. They also tend to be B2B, which in my experience is often harder to make work in a classic affiliate model.