PPC adult affiliate programs: still alive!

If you want to skim some traffic off to other adult sites in return for additional income, take advantage of PPC affiliate programs. Wouldn't it be neat to get some money for every single time one of your surfers clicked an ad banner or text link?

Even though the primary focus has already shifted to PPS sponsors, there are still dozens of profitable options out there. This article outlines the basics of PPC programs and lists sponsors offering PPC affiliate programs.

PPC basics

While TGPs, CJs, blogs and free sites can generate large volumes of traffic with little investment, quality Pay Per Click (PPC) programs can help you monetize it. They offer webmasters money for surfers that click sponsor ads.

When you become an affiliate, you will receive a special ID that is usually placed within an HTML code. You will need to use it in sponsor banners and text links. When the surfer clicks them, this activity will be tracked via your affiliate's ID.

Typically, you can use the following ad formats to promote your sponsor:

• Inline text links

• Text banners

• Rich media banners

• Graphical banners
• Pop-unders
• Full page inter-ad

Virtually all PPC sponsors forbid all forms of email marketing. Any affiliate found to be promoting sponsor websites via email marketing directly or via webpages promoted by email advertising will be terminated without pay.

On average, you will earn $0.015-$0.3 per click. The highest PPC income is offered by dating websites - up to $1 per click. The reason is simple: here surfers don't just sign up and watch porn - they find new partners and friends to communicate with. They don't want to loose these contacts, so they often continue their membership. That's why dating sites can allow paying affiliates more money for clicks. Plus, you will not get paid for all future rebills of the members you referred.

PPC terminology

Don't try to click your sponsor banners and text links like crazy to get more money. It is not that easy. PPC sponsors differentiate Raw and Unique clicks. They want you to send many different surfers, not the same one clicking over and over again.

Each time surfers visit your sponsor's site, they are identified via their Unique IP address and cookies. PPC sponsors count one Unique Visitor as one Unique Click, per a specified period of time (usually 24 hours). ‘Raw' Clicks mean the total number of visits, including repeat visitors.

Some sponsors pay more money for Second Page Click (also called Clickthrough or Clickthru). It means that your surfers click not just your sponsor's link but also other links on your sponsor's site. These clicks have more "value" to the advertiser because they show that a surfer is interested in the content and more likely to sign up.

Keep these terms in mind to understand exactly how your PPC sponsor will track your activity and count your surfers' clicks. Some of them will pay you only for Clickthru, some of them will pay you for Blind Clicks (vague text links like "Click here to see a hot naked girl!") and some of them will convert your affiliate program to Pay Per Signup (PPS) if you don't sustain a reasonable click-to-signup ratio.

PPC affiliate programs

• http://www.clicksor.com/. Clicksor offers webmasters to earn money by underlining a selection of clickable text or displaying banners on their websites or blogs. You can choose any type of advertisements you want: cost per click (CPC), cost per thousand impressions (CPM) and cost per visit (CPV).

The website pays up to 60% revenue share (the minimum price is about 0.03 per click) depending on the performance the advertisers attain from your website placements. Payments are sent twice a week by check or PayPal with a minimum payout of $50. If your revenue is less than the minimum payout amount, the balance is carried forward to the next pay period.

• http://www.adultfriendfinder.com/. Adult Friend Finder is the most popular adult-oriented dating website with nearly 20 million active members worldwide. It offers live nude webcams, erotic chat, group sex or swinger action, and several affiliate programs for webmasters.

Pay per click program is the simplest way to start earning money. You can get up to $1.00 per each unique visitor per day. The minimum payout is $50. Keep in mind that you have to maintain the traffic quality of 1 free member in 20 uniques and 1 paid membership in 25 free members. Otherwise, your account will be converted to the percentage affiliate program.

• http://www.premier-blind.com/. Premier-Blind offers $0.03 per valid unique click on the 'Enter' button on their landing pages. You can put their links on as many different adult domains, websites, blogs and web pages as you want. Any kind of text link or image link is ok provided all references and depictions within the link are legal and in accordance with the terms and conditions of the PPC program.

All payments are sent on the 15th of each calendar month by a cheque or via Epassporte. There is a $50 payment minimum, and if an account fails to reach it by the end of a pay period, it will be rolled into the following period.

• http://www.fpctraffic2.com/. Fpctraffic offers webmasters four innovative programs to consider: "Clickthru," "Raw," "Pop-under," and "Pop-under light." You will get $3.00 per 1000 raw first page hits (it's about 1/3 of a cent for every hit you send). No filtering for uniques; no gateway pages to pass through. You simply send a hit and get paid for it!

You can also earn $3.00 CPM for pop-unders ($.003 per unique), $1.50 CPM for simple pop-unders ($.0015 per unique) and 2 cents for click through. Traffic can be sent any way, including thumbnails, blind links, enter buttons, and misleading text. Payments are made once per month via epassporte or wire transfers. The minimum payout is $50.00.

• http://gbcash.com. GBcash.com offers money compensation every time your surfers first click banners and/or approved links. Clicks qualifying for payment are filtered by IP filtering technology (1 IP per 24 hours period regardless of various banners used/clicked). If a click is not from a country listed for a particular campaign type, those clicks do not qualify for payment.

The rates vary from $0.013 - $0.015 for clicks at the landing page to $0.02 - $0.05 for second page programs. Viewable statistics are based on actual qualified payable clicks only. Payment will be sent in the form of a bank draft, Epassporte, PP or other arrangement approved by GBCash.com (minimum payout is $50.00).

All adult sponsors track your clicks but only those that offer PPC affiliate programs pay you for clicks. The ability to deliver qualified visitors to a specific page can mean extra income each month. However, don't forget to read your PPC sponsor's terms and condition very carefully. You need to know everything about payment method and qualifying clicks before sending traffic to your sponsor.