Mobile App Affiliate Update
Another update from my affiliate news, I finally made my first $1 with an affiliate link in an app. I have sent over 7500 clicks to GhostStop and earned a $1 commission on a $20 sale. I may revise my app to show a GhostStop banner instead of the AdMob banner to try to increase this. It’s a good commission for little work but it’s not a good return on the amount of traffic I’ve sent. I’ve scheduled another Black Friday notification that is going to hit 67k users so hopefully I can update you with some results soon.
To be honest I feel that it is on them to close the sale once I’ve delivered the customer but that’s an entirely different book and is WAY off target here.
Hurray! $1 :]
And just because I was suspicious about the total in app time for Flight Alert I gave it some time and went back to check again. Now Apple is showing around 3 sessions per month per active device for the past month. Firebase is showing 1 minute 20 seconds on average per day for about 10 devices a day. That is more in line with what I would expect for an app that is this new. Firebase is telling me that I’ve had 375 installs in the past 4 months (which is not bad for zero advertising) compared to 404 from Apple. Without having exact date ranges from Firebase I think these numbers are probably close enough.
OK, so maybe I’ll approach the SkyScanner affiliate deal after I get my user numbers up. These new stats don’t sound so impressive anymore which is why I have always hated statistics. Given the right data you can lie about anything!