One of the big things I see in the affiliate marketing space are the use of Content Gateways. I’ve heard stories from friends and other marketers that there are people making $10,000 or more a day with content gateways.
If you are not familiar with what a content gateway is, or other content locking technology, it’s basically a popup that appears over the content of your website and it displays a variety of incentive offers. Only after a user completes the offer, does the content gateway go away, and the user can actually access the content beneath it. Of course, you get paid as well!
Payouts for these types of offers vary. I’ve seen them as low as $0.50 to as high as $3.00. Definitely not as high as regular CPA offers, but since you are essentially “incentivising” the completion of these offers, the conversion rates are quite good.
Content gateways have actually been around for a long time. I joined CPA Lead a long time ago, and people were making bank with them even back then. The technology is definitely improving though as we move along. Blam Ads is about to introduce their Content Gateway 3.0 Excedo very soon.
The key to making money with content gateway’s is finding the right traffic and incentive. You probably don’t want to put them on your regular websites with legitimate traffic. Many incentive offers are pretty spammy, and you don’t want to annoy any loyal users you may have.
You’ll often see content gateway’s stuck on TV or movie sites. I’m pretty sure it’s not legal to have your gateways on copyright content, but people do it, and probably make a lot of money doing so. Probably downloads and adult content would be the best best to use a content gateway with. Just make sure the incentive network you choose is ok with this. Some are more strict than others.
If you are looking for networks that offer content gateways, the major ones are CPA Lead, Blam Ads, Adscend Media and Leadbolt. Sign up as an ad publisher with them, and see what they offer.
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