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Re: LeapFish Affiliate Program. Can Giveaways Keep It Afloat?

Fr. Vlad Zablotskyy — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 16:34:08 -0000

Adam, actually that Mark is their "Marketing Director". Thanks for stopping by and for sharing your experience.

Re: LeapFish Affiliate Program. Can Giveaways Keep It Afloat?

adam — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 13:45:22 -0000

i've been called by an overly aggressive leapfish salemen before. he was downright rude when i express my concerns on spending over $1000 for one keyword with a search engine (?) i've never heard of before. he said leapfish is the next big thing and i'd be missing out. I have heard that before. I asked about a month trial...."no".

I think one of your repliers, Mark, is the same guy that has been spamming twitter on behalf of LF.

My advice to anyone that spends money on LeapFish is too think twice, and don't do it. Use that $1000 to either invest in SEO or at least Google ads. You'll see much more returns. The more I think about it....$1000+ for one keyword...are you crazy?

Re: LeapFish Affiliate Program. Can Giveaways Keep It Afloat?

Fr. Vlad Zablotskyy — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 20:19:03 -0000

You can do much better with AdSense

Re: LeapFish Affiliate Program. Can Giveaways Keep It Afloat?

HIPHOPHEROIN — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 17:00:33 -0000

i think it is a competitive program i have it on my site www.hiphopheroin.com
we'll see how it works out

Re: LeapFish Affiliate Program. Can Giveaways Keep It Afloat?

Fr. Vlad Zablotskyy — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 13:30:13 -0000

Mr. Cook,

I have just noticed another rather misleading thing about LeapFish. The widgets that are used by your affiliates have Twitter logos on them. There is no sign however that LeapFish aggregates from Twitter.

Re: LeapFish Affiliate Program. Can Giveaways Keep It Afloat?

Fr. Vlad Zablotskyy — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 14:35:11 -0000

That is not what I wrote in my post. I wrote the following: "I am skeptical that any average blogger will be able to make $500 or more per month".

Re: LeapFish Affiliate Program. Can Giveaways Keep It Afloat?

Average Blogger — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 11:24:53 -0000

It is quiet evident that this blogger has a hidden agenda towards LeapFish.com.

It is inaccurate statement to make that an average blogger will never earn any money with LeapFish. Can you actually provide us with any statistics about this?

I personally like the idea of how LeapFish is pioneering the Search 2.0- I made it my default search engine.

Re: LeapFish Affiliate Program. Can Giveaways Keep It Afloat?

Fr. Vlad Zablotskyy — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 16:27:26 -0000

Mark,

The code that you do offer consist of a javascript than is used, I presume, to serve the widget itself. The link "Powered by LeapFish" (this link is not served via javascript, it is SEO friendly link - indexable and the one that passes what we know as Google juice) is the one I referred to.

As far as being accurate about it or not- I think I am neither- it is my opinion that forcing your affiliates to link to you (via widgets or otherwise) is not the best way to gain incoming links.

Re: LeapFish Affiliate Program. Can Giveaways Keep It Afloat?

Mark — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 16:09:17 -0000

Dear Vlad,

Here are official responses to your questions regarding the affiliate program.

Is The Affiliate Program Promoting The Wrong Product?

The affiliate program is a progressively evolving program that will include new widgets and payouts, including Keyword Registrations and others, in future releases.

Is the Affiliate Program Nothing More Than a “Linking Payola” scheme?

This is inaccurate. The affiliate program is designed to offer affiliates an added avenue of earning additional income while allowing them to offer a growing list of new features to their users. We do not require affiliates to have additional links to the program.

Is the Affiliate Program’s Payout Too Small To Attract Affiliates?

At current payouts and growing, the affiliate program offers a very competitive program to the market. However, as with anything else, we understand the affiliate program may not be for everyone. Payouts will increase over time as will the variety of widgets and programs made available.

Mark Kithcart

Re: LeapFish Affiliate Program. Can Giveaways Keep It Afloat?

Fr. Vlad Zablotskyy — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 08:41:57 -0000

Matt,
They would be so much better off implementing the affiliate program linked to their "keywords"- maybe with "intext" ads as Kontera and Infolink does. It would give their advertisers more exposure.

Re: LeapFish Affiliate Program. Can Giveaways Keep It Afloat?

Lord Matt — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 03:40:18 -0000

Two pence? I'd need 1142 clicks an hour to equal UK basic minimum wage or about 228,400 unique visits per hour given the market average of 0.5% click through. That's just shy of 5.5 Million daily visitors. At that traffic level I'd be able to charge a lot more upfront for a lot less exposure in direct sales for CPM adverts.