1st of May was precisely the date my affiliate sales through CB completely shut down. Nothing.... absolutely nothing... I was used to a steady $200-300/month and growing from just a handful of products on one page. Then nothing. Silence.
Then in the last week just 3 sales.
I've always found CB products to be quite hard to sell. Unless you are really hitting a tight niche it takes a lot of work. And time. Apparently there are 10,000 products in there, but they make it quite hard to find them. Being outside of the US it would be nice if products were tagged in some way to represent countries because a lot of their products are really only for the US.
Yes there are some "great products" that can display whole pages of CB products. But that's extra cost and again you can't usually filter for just what you want - so if you want to use these it's extra money and a lot of time trying things out. Time which newbies don't have, they probably also don't have the ability to spot those 3rd party applications, nor the technical skills right now to implement them.
I kept meaning to look into why my CB sales hit £0 for so long. But I finally got round to being adsense approved and so I find that easier.
With CB I'd already changed my minimum payout to $10,000. I figure I will get just 1 cheque per year. It costs me £4/$8 to pay each cheque into my account and takes about 6 weeks to go through the banking system. So I didn't want a cheque every 2 weeks as I was receiving. Too much hassle. One cheque per year is good enough for me.
In fact, I personally am finding adsense the easiest way to go. You don't have to sign up and trawl through some alien interface choosing products and grabbing links ... only to find that you have to wait to be approved, or that at 2 minutes notice you get an email saying XYZ Product is suspended. You also don't have to go check your earnings on 30 different sites. So adsense I find is:
1) paying me better
2) paying me easier
All the money is coming into one easy pot. So, now I will just build more adsense sites.
Everybody is different though. We are all trying and liking different things. Our sites are all different. So there is no one size fits all.
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