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Resources for Webmasters


Updated May 3, 2008


Get in on the ground floor with the new PPP (Pay Per Play) media ads that are coming. You can sign up now and recruit others to start serving Net Audio ads.

Our Favorite Affiliate Programs

Based on payment rate, high CTR or CPM, fast loading banners if using their banner server, timely stats reporting, web publisher protection, referral commissions, ease of use, reliability, and reputation and recommendation from other webmasters.

The following sites are NOT listed in order of preference. They are all programs that are used on AstroStar.

In most cases, we get referral revenue if you sign up through our links on this page.



RECOMMENDED

Spiritual Cinema Circle Affiliate Program Offer inspirational new movies to your visitors with a free trial. Every month, award-winning films are available, movies you won't see anywhere else. An especially good program for metaphysical, spiritual, inspiration web sites.

Casale Media We signed up in April 2004. They pay web publishers 70% of their ad revenue, which is the highest I've come across. Casale Media is one of our favorite revenue sources. One of my favorite features is the ability to auto-format your ads to not show "excessive animation," "gambling," or "political," if you choose. The 728 x 90 ad at top of page is from Casale Media. Other ad sizes are available. Note: Your site must have 10,000 unique online visitors per month to be accepted and it must be in English. No adult sites or warez. 9 REFERRALS

Psychic Revenue We started with this program in 2001. This has been a good payer, no doubt because of our related content and the low-cost trial membership that sells very well. Payments are monthly, stats updated nightly. 15 REFERRALs since 2002. But no tiered revenue to date.

ValueClickmedia.com ValueClick Media bought Fastclick in 2006. I didn't like the old Fastclick enough to keep it on this page. But the new operations and accounting of ValueClick seem more finely tuned now. For every ad impression that you serve you know exactly what you will earn. Payments are through PayPal.

It's working well to combine Casale Media ads with ValueClick's. As you look around AstroStar.com, you'll see both. AstroStar revenue, since the ValueClick buy-out, has increased about 40%.

Refer a publisher to receive 5% commissions on your ad earnings for the 12 months following the referral's sign up.

Refer an advertiser and get 5% commission on all their campaign buys for the 12 months following the referral's sign up. For example; if an advertiser you referred bought two $10,000 campaigns, you would get $1000 commission.

Note for Advertisers: ValueClick's Invue ad format gets at least a 13% click thru ratio on AstroStar.com... but we use them sparingly. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED. Will post when/if we receive a referral.

Sign up referrals from your site to receive 10% of your 1st tier affiliates' earnings and 5% of your 2nd tier affiliates' earnings (on top of your direct commission). NEW! RECOMMENDED.

ClickBank The affiliate program is a breeze, one of the easiest to use, sign-up, short code, fast loading, view your live stats, etc. They offer dozens of astrology and metaphysical merchants. For awhile I had this in the NOT RECOMMENDED category, but Clickbank has changed their tracking system. This program used to be better for the advertiser because it didn't always track referrals, but now that they've changed their codes, I recommend it for all affiliates. 2 REFERRALS since 2002

LinkShare For years, Linkshare was on my Not Recommended list, even though I used them reluctantly to advertise Sierra Club, Gaiam and some other favorites I couldn't part with. We've used Linkshare since 1997. Since early 2006, I realized they were doing much better on all fronts - reporting, linking accuracy, and ease of linking. Not once did I have to track down a glitch or code mistake as I had in the past. I'm thrilled with their improvements. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.

AllPosters Affiliates Program Earn up to 30% of sales. They have over 50,000 poster and art print images. It's easy to sign-up, track your sales, and build links and storefronts. Some months we earn more on our second tier referrals than we do on selling the posters!
14 REFERRALs since 2002.

FriendFinder.com We've used this program successfully since AstroStar first went online in 1997. It's mostly been on our Romantic Realms pages which aren't as high volume as the rest of the site. But FriendFinder has been consistently a good payer while our links are tucked away quietly racking up commissions. So we finally added it here July 2004. Checks are issued monthly with a $50 minimum.

FineClicks.com We like the posted conversion rates of each offer. It makes it easy to see which offers are doing well throughout the network to choose the ads you like. They will pay you 5% of the ad earnings for any referred Publishers accepted into the network, and 5% of the campaign budget for any referred Advertisers, indefinitely! We added this program April 2003.
7 REFERRALs

ShareaSale This is a very easy affiliate program for web publishers to use. They offer per lead and per sale referral commissions. It's simple, clean, fast-loading. Merchants are rated. We have used this program since April 2003 but
NO REFERRALs, so far




Our Favorite Webmaster Resources

SelfPromotion Terrific free submission service. Pay $15 annually to get the extras. It's worth it.

TinyURL.com We use TinyURL.com to shorten those l-o-n-g affiliate links in our newsletter. It's Free! If you use it, please make a donation at their website, so we can keep using it.

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