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Why is such a huge chunk of traffic arbitrage made up of grey niches — gambling, crypto, nutra, dating, adult? The answer is pretty obvious. There’s a ton of money in those verticals. Massive demand, …

In the previous posts we worked out how to open an affiliate network for gambling, crypto and nutra. Today, let’s tackle dating. Why should you only get into building a dating affiliate network with serious …

Ads yell “Look at this product!” and the affiliate closes the tab. Content marketing gives them something useful first and sells later: two approaches, four formats and one honest recommendation for anyone whose budget isn’t bottomless.

I’m sure if you see how packs of leads fall into trash, and it’s harder to wait for approval than real innovations in iPhones, then you conclude that call center employees are crooked stutterers who can’t sell anything to your hot leads.

In this series, we’ve already covered gambling and crypto. The column is meant to help people just starting to build their own affiliate networks get their heads around the finer points and quirks of running …

Social ads bring in nothing but newbies, a referral program is years of servitude, and spam is embarrassing but works. Here’s how a new affiliate network attracts affiliates without folding within six months.

In the previous part of this series, we talked about launching your own affiliate network in the gambling vertical — you can read it here. Today we’re diving into a completely different industry: crypto. Building …

Remember, remember the 4th of September … What? Wrong month again? Oh shi… So, along with the fourth of September, AlterCPA Pro version 26 breaks into our lives! This release has private sites and new statistics, and the rest of the trivia will be found further.

If anyone thinks an affiliate network in gambling is anything like an affiliate network in e-commerce or sweepstakes — you’re badly mistaken. These are fundamentally different businesses, different partners, different problems. Let’s take a look …

There is no perfect protection against fraudsters. It will always be a race to see who is smarter and more cunning. Our task is to make it so difficult, hemorrhoid and risky to deceive and pharm that the vast majority will simply be killed. Or they will go to another affiliate network, where there is less smart leadership.

We continue the topic, how affiliate networks can protect the contacts of its direct adverts. In this article I will tell you how to technically implement the described methods. It’s about masking the domain of the site. Of course, you can use these methods not only to protect the contacts of the advertiser, but also for other purposes. It all depends on your imagination.

The autologin link rats out your direct advertiser to any affiliate with a browser and five minutes to spare. Three ways to plug that hole — from “just switch it off” to swapping the domain on the fly — plus what to do with a broker who insists that somebody, anybody, click the link.

An affiliate signs up and waits for approval: an hour, a day, a week, forever — and meanwhile a competitor has already shown them its offer list. How to stop losing affiliates right at the door, and what one checkbox in the settings has to do with it.

The cryptocurrency vertical is one of the most difficult in terms of finding direct advertiser. The best way is conferences, chats, acquaintances and all this social capital. But there is another way to find the right contact. Faster, simpler and more specific. We will use the autologin link.

An affiliate is threatening to go public, the advertiser cut the payout at three in the morning, and a trade outlet is already drafting the story. A network’s survival manual: when to take screenshots, when to storm the comments with seven fake accounts, and when to just pay out of your own pocket.