Good Money in Web Hosting Affiliate Programs?

popstalin · 02-06-2007, 04:51 PM

I'm not looking to make a living from it but just to add some extra income. For example, my current host pays $90 per affiliate sign-up. That seems like pretty easy income to me, provided people sign-up.

Thoughts?

Nomar · 02-07-2007, 10:11 AM

That is a lot of money yeah. I am trying to get on this market to..

tophosting.us

what do you think ??

and what do you think of the domain itself - tophosting.us

Lamaan · 02-09-2007, 06:55 PM

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Originally Posted by popstalin

I'm not looking to make a living from it but just to add some extra income. For example, my current host pays $90 per affiliate sign-up. That seems like pretty easy income to me, provided people sign-up.

Thoughts?

Being a salesperson - online or off - is by far the most profitable job in the world (except maybe being dictator of some sad little country). It is profitable for one simple reason: because it is, for most people, hard to do. So if you have (or can learn) the knack, you will be in line to earn a whole lot of money, for an indecently small amount of effort.

Selling web hosting is probably as good as a business as any: everyone (or at least, all webmasters) needs hosting - they have to have it! - so the only question is who they buy from. If it can be from you, then you have it made.

iwm1979 · 02-09-2007, 08:16 PM

The main issue with web hosting is that it is used by web masters who also want to get into the same business. Add to it the fact that most hosting companies allow you to join as an affiliate and then use the product yourself and get commissions on that. This makes it very difficult to sell the products with your own affiliate link.

popstalin · 02-12-2007, 04:27 PM

I was actually going to set-up a site specifically for Web Hosting affiliate marketing.

john587 · 03-28-2007, 02:13 PM

Web hosting is very profitable if you have the time, but at the same time is also a saturated industry as so many are also doing it like what you want to do.

I'm also doing it and have been doing it for about 3 years. I havn't done as well as others from it at all and have only got a few sales, but then this is mainly because I have always been working on other sites and advertising other sites. It is only now that I am starting to work with web hosting a little more as I know it can be profitable if you take the time and you have the interest in it.

warner444 · 08-25-2007, 07:03 PM

personally I have found selling web hosting extremely competatve.
I ran some adwords for hostgator and blue host. I dodn't want to spend much so I picked a lot of keywords, only bid .30 on searchand .15 on content. I got a lot of impressions on content and clicks at about 5 cents. It ran about 400 clicks and got zero sales so I paused it.

On the Bluehost I ran ads saying it is recomended by wordpress.org, google didn't like those words too much because bluehost does not mention wordpress but they ran a lot of content impressions anyway. One unexpected glich was that wordpress.org also runs adwords on thier recomended hosts.

For the Hostgator I just used the word hostgator and the same content focused price plan. Again zero conversions to sales.

Host plans pay so much it definatly seems great. I still run both of those way on the back burner for now, bidding only 5 cents on bid and content. Maybe I will get a brain flash and write the most brilliant ad someday or find a great set of obscure keywords.

These days I am thinking more in terms of smaller niches, marketing tool products, free traffic methods, and building mini websites for niches. Since I also work on some people sites, fitting this in over time is how it will be.

MagnaLifeOdin · 08-30-2007, 10:28 AM

$90 is a very nice commission, but is that a one-time payment?

My personal hosting pays $10 per person, per month for the life of the account in its referral program. To each his own I suppose.

webwhat · 10-23-2007, 07:56 PM

There is tons of money in webhosting affiliate programs.

lifeofegypt · 10-26-2007, 05:52 AM

There is some money to be made in the affiliate programs. You just have to be aggressive at promoting the product. Especially to newbies.

viswablr · 11-04-2007, 09:58 PM

Web hosting is a saturated world. Don't get into that. Look for other niches.

shakir · 11-10-2007, 04:46 AM

Its great, good income , one time is not problem...if its for each sales ...

cldnails · 11-16-2007, 11:47 AM

As far as hosting affiliates are concerned, I liked DreamHosts program. When I was using them you could earn $90 per referral OR make your own coupons to make your own deals. Therefore you could offer someone a coupon code for $40 off a signup, to get their attention, but then you would only receive $50 paid out.

Neat kind of incentive.

shakir · 11-20-2007, 12:58 AM

if get good traffic and peoples host web Ok it will work. But i think for getting some income will take years

cchance · 11-21-2007, 09:38 PM

lol only 50$ as if that's a small amount of money

otto101 · 11-27-2007, 09:05 AM

That's a nice commision.What if you can market other products and build a site for people who want to make a site for a home business,and live training to market online at the same.Have five links on the the site to generate some income different programs too.So you don't need to sell just that.

ClickboothB · 11-30-2007, 11:51 AM

Just curious...

Have you thought about working with affiliate networks?

Best,

Clickbooth B

dburr99 · 12-25-2007, 09:33 AM

I have created my own shopping network which includes only a couple webhosts for the very same reason that has been mentioned before. It is a very saturated market. I have made it so that it is a profit sharing website but with all major categories and not just web hosting. So if you are interested in making money with web hosting once you get them into the system they can make money in many more areas as well. If you are interested in learning more check out the link below and/or contact me there. I can help integrate my site into yours which will help you make more money instead of trying to create your own system. Just a thought...

TrafficLicious · 12-26-2007, 01:16 AM

Yeah ... I feel web hosting is saturated too. People tend not to change web hosts once they're settled. There are still many other niches to be tapped into. Try those ...

arcadesstuff · 01-09-2008, 04:24 AM

HostGator pays something like that:
sign up:
1-5 a month $50
6-10 a month $75
11-19 a month $100
20+ a month $125

I think this is a great deal if you want to invest some time getting people to sign up under your affiliate id.