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

File sharing Affiliate programs: how to earn more?

There are a lot of file sharing services which offer you money making options (just check FileTram Wupload, Oron, FileSonic, etc.) Of course, all of them have different options of participating in Affiliate programs, but there are some rules which allow getting better results within any of them. Let’s look how to earn more with file-sharing affiliate programs?!

The first and one of the most important points of profitable file-sharing is your material – files you want to share. At first you need at least to know what are you sharing? The better you know your files, the better you’ll promote them. The better you promote, the more you earn. What’s also important about sharing materials is their necessity. If you share a needed file, but there are much other people who share it for a long time, you’ll hardly get any income. Your files should be urgent and necessary, but rather rare in the index of available for downloading files.

However, for the beginners, sometimes that’s even better to take a file which is popular. Though even having a great number of competitors, they will get some income and experience, then if they upload totally new file and will have no idea what to do with it.

The second is where you share them and how to get the biggest feedback from file-sharing. The audience research is especially important if you have a specific kind of files and to make some money from them, you should share information about them with this specific audience. The other important way of sharing data is forums, full of different topics where you also can share info about rare files, but now available due to you.

The third important thing in profitable file-sharing is your personal resource. It could be your own blog or website. If you have such a thing, you’ll be able to get a lot of advantages. One of them is that you offer other users writing guest posts in your blog while you’ll be able to write in theirs. With this possibility you’ll be able to get higher ratings. After your blog gains much popularity (so higher rating), it is easier to promote your affiliate links with it.

The fourth important point is your creativity in presentation of your materials. We all like visualized, catchy and interesting things which seem to be unique and do not be as others, so don’t forget to attach to your links something similar to what was already mentioned.

The fifth point is the program you choose. I’ve already written that the most important are those four points which I’ve already mentioned, but not the program. However, the better program (with higher payoffs rate) you choose, the more you’ll get due to your persistence. Be attentive and choose the most profitable and the most respectful affiliate program.

I’ll try to compare some affiliate file-sharing programs in my next posts. Now I’m running to my friend’s birthday…

Sincerely,
Norman