Wupload.com closed its affiliate program. Why?

Just I wanted to write about Wupload and my success with their affiliate program, as it appeared that they had closed it due to “its no longer financial viability”. Hmm… But this program seemed to me very prosperous one, how could it become "no longer financially viable"

Willy Wupload on the official news blog says “… we were able to surpass our growth expectations in terms of traffic, but as anybody in the file hosting business can tell you, traffic does not always mean profitability.”

Wupload promises to pay all earnings gained till November 28th, that means that I’ll get back my money. That’s cool, but I’ve decided to collect some reasons why services close their affiliate programs. I remember that even Dropbox once had affiliate program, but had closed. So, I have found just two which seemed to me really important.

Reason #1
Taxes or law restrictions

One of the reasons why Amazon.com closed its affiliate programs in some of US states (e.g. California) was the state tax policy. For such large companies as Amazon.com it was inconvenient to pay state sales tax on income of small affiliates.

Reason #2
Hosting problems or non-stable traffic

The main reason why many affiliate programs close their affiliate programs and I think it was also Wupload’s reason is non-stable traffic. What does that mean? Do you remember old rule – “quality – not quantity”. The same is here.
Just beginning your e-business the main goal is to attract traffic to your site, but after that you should turn first-time users into stable subscribers and buyers. This will bring success to your business.

But! Wupload’s Affiliate Program was really great one. Large variety of offers, ability to earn much ($40 for 1000 downloads), 20% on referrals, interest on sales done through your website. More attractive to me among young file-sharing affiliate programs seems just FileTram.com. This service offers up to 100$ per 1000 downloads and I must say that it is rather easy to work with it.
About my earnings with FileTram I’d write later.

Be stable,
Norman

First post

Hi, friends!

This is my first post and frankly speaking I totally have no idea how first posts look like. So, I’m just writing to say “Hello” and maybe briefly describe what for I started running this blog. I’m not a pundit in online money making, however have much experience.

Well, I decided to run a blog on this topic, cause much of the money I earn is from affiliate programs and other methods of online money making. When I was just a newbie in this kind of work, the most useful source of gaining knowledge were blogs of experienced users. At that time I at first explored what affiliate programs are and how can I benefit from them.

Now I’m a bit experienced in this work, however I don’t believe in perfection. So, here’s my blog and with it I hope you and me will be able to follow my success and failures (hope, the second will never happen, but it’s impossible to work without failures).

The first thing I will start with will be file-sharing affiliate programs. I take part in plenty of them, so that would be interesting to compare them. So, that would be the topic of the next post.

See you soon,
Norman