crobb305 - 2:55 am on Aug 11, 2002 (gmt 0)

I have to say I am one of the affiliate marketers who run a website with very little html knowledge. My site is actually one that I can modify online and publish to the internet immediately without uploading anything. My site gets over 500 visits a day which may not seem like a lot but converts to over $5000 a month in revenue. I only use Commission Juntion. The key to my relative success for me has been learning how to promote a website (largely through this forum). I have a page rank of 5 on Google and have a lot of top 10 rankings.

One suggestion I have for people who use Commission Junction that has worked for me is to compare "Network Earnings" against 7-day and 3-month EPC for each merchant. I have had great results marketing merchants who have HIGH EPC numbers but LOW network earnings. The EPC is an indication of how much money that product earns for every hundred clicks, on average. So, a high EPC means the product has high conversion. If a merchant has low "network earnings", this means that relatively few sites market this product. So, high conversion (EPC) with relatively low product visibility across the internet (Network Earnings) means good returns for people who see the product on my site.