Last year we were paid $0.00 by Apple after running a pretty aggressive campaign on Croncast and Resale Queen and in our RSS feeds. There is no way that in hades that not one single individual didn't buy the item they clicked on from the online Apple store in the 3 month span we ran the ads. It is illogical to look at the numbers (first table) and think that not one items was purchased from the online store within the cookie expiration period.
| Advertiser |
Commissions |
S_Amount |
Items |
Sales |
Leads |
Clicks |
Imps |
CTR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
eBay |
$ XX |
$ XX |
47 |
598 |
84 |
351,500 |
59,514 |
590.61 |
Apple Store US & Apple Store Canada |
$ 0.00 |
$ 0.00 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
218 |
31,192 |
0.69 |
Here's where we are in the last 4 days since I started running a couple ads in Betsy's Resale Queen feeds: blog posts and her podcast feed. The ads are for iLife '08 and the new MacBook Air. They are placed after the post item content and before the post tags.
| Advertiser |
Commissions |
S_Amount |
Items |
Sales |
Leads |
Clicks |
Imps |
CTR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
eBay |
$ XX |
$ XX |
3 |
105 |
6 |
26,354 |
4,949 |
532.51 |
Apple Store US & Apple Store Canada |
$ 0.00 |
$ 0.00 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
57 |
82 |
69.51 |
The clicks and impressions both are higher than I would have expected but maybe I did better targeting of the audience this time around. I doubt it. I think I was dead on during October, November and December to run iPod ads for shuffle, nano and video iPods.
I did contact the Apple Affiliate program through CJ during the second month to ask what the issue might be and never received a response.
For some reason I feel a need to go through with this again and hope that we can get our payout on a purchase from a lead that we created. I'll let you know how this goes.
Anyone else have experience with the Apple Affiliate Program?
Tags: MacBook Air 
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