Matchmaking Services for Affiliate Marketers

For the new year I'm looking at expanding some of my affiliate marketing campaigns into the internet dating and matchmaking sectors. There is a lot of potential here for big earnings, but there is also a lot of competition. One of my new years resolutions is to make 100$ profit each month from each matchmaking campaign I will be running starting on the 1st of January.

Lots of affiliate marketers use matchmaking affiliates due to the high payouts that you can find from some of the bigger matchmaking sites like FriendFinder etc. I will be primarily utilizing FriendFinder as I like their affiliate setups. However that doesn't mean its the only game in town. There are a multitude of sites out there that can and will work just as well for your campaigns. The problem is finding the good ones.

Enter 5stardating.com, a site that groups them all together and does the hard work for you. This site lists all the major and minor players in the matchmaking online game and cam give you a run down based on category etc. While its not set up specifically for affiliate marketers, it is a great list to run through when looking for great affiliate programs. I use it to narrow down the bigger players in specific groupings and can easily run through three or four sites in no time using 5stardating.com as a launch pad. Of course you can always use 5stardating.com as your own Dating Service if you're in the market!

Look for programs that offer different payouts for different types of sign ups. Some of the matchmaking sites will payout as much as 2$ for a free sign up. Thats a great deal if you can consistently drive targeted traffic to a landing page. I plan to use Yahoo! and some MSN advertising campaigns to increase traffic to some nice landing pages I'm cooking up.

Have you tried your hand in the matchmaking and dating sites affiliate programs? Would like to hear your thoughts and stories - so comments welcome!