However, I can tell you that the standard rate for PPC companies to share with medium sized affiliates is between 40% and 50%, depending upon your level of traffic, your quality of traffic and how much they want you.
Many long term affiliates though have probably renegotiated contracts based on past performance, I don't know what is offered to new affiliates, it was 15% at one point, I imagine it depends on many different factors.
I am also not so keen on the new multi-account reporting system. I would like to see the old "linked" system put back in as well. The two together would be a nice combination.
They could also do with some quick links for the multi account reporting, to allow users to find their traffic numbers for the previous day, week, month etc. At the moment I have to use the annoying date picking menus, which is quite tedious.
Anyone received the monthly affiliate report for October yet?
Yes, sort of.
I have many accounts with them, for various websites, having negotiated different commissions for each website, and a separate commission for referrals and search results.
It would be convenient to show what the commission % is on each report, and it begs the question why do they no longer display it? (and went out of their way to remove it)
And removing the "linked account" feature makes it even more difficult to manage.
I've noticed some real anomalies that in some sectors we might spend 10-15 times as much money on Google or Overture than Espotting traffic for the same keywords/sector, primarily because none of the affiliates have identified that they can get a decent commission from these sectors........hence no effort to deliver traffic, yet on the highly monetised ones where the CPC is higher on Espotting than elsewhere there is a bun fight going on to deliver traffic.
Seems like shopping.net is Espottings saviour at the moment, driving a lot of traffic post Yahoo.