Affiliate Sales Pages - Fugly!
lurksteraz on October 13th, 2007
Since joining the ranks of affiliate marketing, one thing I cannot find an answer to, are the long, testimonial, video, screenshot super duper long sales pages everyone makes…. You know the pages I’m talking about. If you don’t, I’ll give you a hint. It’s normally a single page that takes about 5 minutes to scroll through until you find the ‘Buy’ button.
I don’t get it. I’m guessing that they work, they seem to be everywhere. Is there a history to these kinds pages? Did some super affiliate marketer one day spread the word that extra long, 82,000 words a page websites work? Are there statistics out there that prove that they work better than a normal looking website? I’m guessing so, since everyone and their mother is reproducing them to no end.
I couldn’t bring myself to creating one, simply because they seem stupid to me. You have 30 testimonials, screenshots of bank records and includes every free e-book out there. I may be missing something and if I am, please, tell me, send me some links to stats on them.
Last but not least, the email capturing just to get to checkout. This I understand, this I can deal with. I understand the purpose of gathering additional information for cross promoting products and services.
Anyways, I just wanted to throw out some questions and thoughts, if you can explain any of the above, feel free to comment, I’d be interested in some stats.
November 30th, 2007 at 6:06 pm
I agree, and I hate the long stupid sites so much that I built my own site and currently I have a 1 in 20 conversion rate after only one month live. I expect to be able to tweek the site and get it down to 1 in 5. Tons of text however improve a site ranking in the web searches.
March 18th, 2008 at 11:07 pm
Hi,
i must admit that i’ver never seen it this way.
But to succeed with making money online, i ‘d strongly advice that you get yourself a treasure map - a roadmap to Affiliate success …*-)
Michael