I happens to compare stats from the old Men Network Cash affiliate program that moved to Adult Force. And discovered quite a frightening difference.
I used to send 30k traffic to Men Network Cash and still send the same to Adult Force. However now I make only about half f what I used too… It looks to me like since moving over to adult force income has gone down by 45%!
It’s actually a huge cut in revenue, very noticeable once you start looking.
What’s more confusing is that since the move from Men Network Cash there’s more and better sites under Adult Force.
I am seeing the same thing. But lately it has really been down the drain with sales.
What I am seeing is, that they now forced affiliates to send traffic to Mennetwork.com and not Men.com anymore. So your 30 days cookie will be for Mennetwork.com and not Men.com.
So if they come from you sites and your send them to Mennetwork.com, and then 5 days later signup to men.com , their system will see the signup as a typein. Eg. no payout for affiliates.
And if you seach for Mennetwork.com on google, you will get this:
We’ve seen our Men.com sales drop slightly, we don’t promote a lot of the offshoot sites, but I think age has as much to do with it as anything else. Certainly not the drop you are seeing.
Alternatively, our Sean Cody sales nearly tripled after the move.
Our sales are way down with AdultForce. It started with their switch from NATS to their inhouse affiliate system. We used to make about the same amount of money with Buddy Profits as with Adult Force. Now Adult Force sales are less that half of Buddy Profits.
Since MG moved the program from NATs to its own AF, sales had declined. Now it’s getting even worse.
Link codes of MEN and SC point to mennetwork.com or seancodynetwork.com. Only if the surfers join the site in this session, the affiliates will get the credit. If the surfers join the site later on, they probably just type men.com or seancody.com on browser bar. So affiliates will not get the credit, unless they type the full name of seancodynetwork.com or seancodynetwork.com, which is highly impossible. It’s a smart trick to turn a 30-day cookie into a session cookie.
I’ve decided to try them out ( I didn’t promote their sites before November 2019.). Since my traffic to them is negligible, they have relatively good conversions. But just like you, I don’t think they are among the most profitable affiliate programs. Maybe because they are too popular and affiliates only get the leftovers from huge traffic. I don’t think there’s any other explanation. Probably visitors who want to join do it while surfing in one of their numerous tubes. Cookies can be a reason, but I bet on the popularity of their own network.
I noticed this within months of them switching over. I’m sure there was even a discussion about it here. We’d been doing okay with them for a while and building up steam and then suddenly they switched and our stats dropped off a cliff. It didn’t make sense, because our rate of posting hadn’t changed, the traffic hadn’t changed, just the affiliate platform had. That was a big red flashing warning light for us.
We stopped promoting them around that time.
We were putting too much work in and after a few weeks of just using them for filler we dropped them entirely, exactly what we did with RandyBlue when they started to sink.
I have seen a slight drop for AF, but nowhere near what some of you mention.
For Sean Cody however, the difference is quite big, which is due to the fact that I have lost quite some SE traffic. I guess those sales went to QC / Mary lol
