Raffles

Try this. Go into Google Analytics / Audience / Custom / User Defined.

Click on 'Secondary Dimension' and type in or select 'Screen Colours'.

This shows your bot traffic clearly as '0-bit' and '8-bit' colour. See here. I still had 1,070 out of 197,000 sessions last week from bot traffic but I can live with 0.5%.

kokonutz

sbm12

Very much yes on both of these. My experience has been that the Boarding Area-delivered ad RPM is significantly higher than what I can achieve elsewhere. Could I do that myself? I suppose I could try. But even paying a % commission to BA to manage I come out ahead. The SEO stuff isn't quite as cut-and-dry but the main page of the Boarding Area site as well as its social media channels do drive additional traffic.
Emphasis on good money and I agree
Only the display ads. Affiliate links, CCs, etc. is all managed individually.
I don't believe those numbers are saying what you are implying here. In Google Analytics the time on page is based on clicking to the next page. If a user bounces from the site (i.e. clicks in, reads one story and closes the tab) then the session/page time calculates as zero. There are javascript workarounds to fire a timer and log it in Google Analytics (I've added them to my sites) but typically they're not in play. As a result sites with a relatively high bounce rate (which isn't necessarily a bad thing) can have artificially low session times because many have a zero in the data. When I added the additonal tracking details it showed me a very different picture from the default analytics bit.

It is more eloquently described here: https://blog.quiet.ly/insights/under...-time-on-page/.

I have a 90% bounce rate and an average page time under a minute according to the default analytics. Looking at the custom time on page code I added suggests that number is significantly off.

Also worth noting that there are different types of bots out there. The ones that do things like indexing pages are not reporting in the 0/4-bit views.

GUWonder

If they pay out.

Raffles

Points.com is THE most efficient affiliate you will ever work with. Only Google Adsense pays as quickly. You get your money the month after the sale takes place.

In truth, it is the only game in town at the moment for most bloggers.

diburning

Ironically, on the consumer end, (Points.com operates some shopping portals such as JetBlue and Amtrak), they are the absolute worst at paying out and emails are either ignored or they don't respond for 6+ months.

kokonutz

Which affiliate channel are you speaking of?

Raffles

If you mean 'which network?', most people use CJ. It's also on Impact.

If you mean 'what do I mean by affiliate?', I mean a company that pays you a cut of the sales when someone buys from their links on your site.

kokonutz

I meant which network. I read that in addition to CJ they are also on VigLink, SlimLinks, FlexOffers and Impact.

I ask because my experience with Priority Pass affiliate on Shareasale has been spotty so am wondering if it's the network that gives the good/bad experience or the actual vendor.

ctownflyer

VigLink, SlimLinks, and FlexOffers are subaffiliate networks that take a cut of the commissions.

SANspotter

Priority Pass doesn't convert very well in general (my experience anyway) - it has little to do with the network.

Raffles

It works well over their Black Friday offer, because it is now well known that this is as good as it gets all year.

stuck720

That's because you have a UK site. In the US, nobody needs to buy a Priority Pass membership, even on sale, thanks to credit cards that have it as a benefit. You can get a 10 pass Priority Pass with a $95 Hilton card, and not only does that turn out cheaper for the traveler to get, but it's also more lucrative to bloggers. Incentives are 100% aligned in this case, for bloggers to encourage someone to sign up for that card (or any number of others that may have unlimited priority pass memberships for not that much more money out of pocket). Anyone who pushes that offer in the US (either directly or through Groupon when they offer it) doesn't have credit card offers, is an idiot ,thinks their users are idiots, or all of the above.

kokonutz

Something like 40% of my readers are not US based. So PP works ok for me. But even before COVID they were constantly running out of funds on ShareaSale.

Kagehitokiri

really great recent posts in this thread

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