Prosperent – A Better Alternative for Amazon Affiliates
As many of you know, I am a fired Amazon affiliate. All Amazon affiliates in Colorado were fired.
I have about 40 product sites that just aren’t going to make good Adsense sites. Because of that, I’ve had a heck of a time trying to figure out what to do with them.
I’ve been looking into Datafeeds, but too be honest, it gets pretty complex.
But now I’m doing the happy dance!
I just discovered Prosperent!
Prosperent is absolutely FREE to join.
They basically handle all the datafeeds for you, and you simply have a little javascript code that is much like Adsense, that you paste into your site. It works great with Peter’s theme.
What’s very cool is that Prosperent is a targeted behavioral ad network. What this means is that they are able to determine what your web site visitors are interested in, and display a relevant product and convert that into a sale. If your visitor searches for blue widgets with chrome, they will show ads that have blue widgets with chrome. Talk about giving your customers exactly what they are looking for!
All the ads have pictures on them, which again adds to the general visitor experience on your site.
The cookies last a lot longer than the 24 hour cookie that Amazon has. They basically work with companies on Shareasale, Commission Junction, Linkshare, etc. You’ll get paid on stuff that someone may have clicked weeks or months ago.
They earn revenue as a % of what you earn. They earn 30%.
From reading their forum, it sounds like members are making a ton more money than when they went with Adsense. That of course makes sense, since visitors are getting exactly what they hoped to get when they went to your website in the first place.
Anyhow… I’m thrilled. It’s the perfect solution to my Amazon dilemna. And frankly, I think it’s better than what I had with Amazon in the first place.
I’ll also say that their control panel is extremely easy to use and robust. You an get all kinds of statistical information and can easily create ads.
It is for product type of sites though. I wouldn’t use it on services or digital download type of sites.
Seems like a neat service, because it can be incredibly time consuming and difficult to get started with all the commission junction/share-a-sale type services.
Why did they fire all the Colorado Affilliates? Was it a tax thing, because I think they had similar problems in my state as well…
They fired Colorado Amazon affiliates because Amazon wanted to make a point to other states not to pass the same laws that require out of state merchants to report sales over $10K that they made to Colorado residents, so that Colorado buyers would then pay use tax.
The new law has absolutely nothing to do with affiliates, but it was all Amazon had to threaten other states. Affiliates became pawns in the sales tax battle.