Affiliate Dating Sites

After spending 2 weeks messing around with spreadsheets I have finally been able to do some work on preparing affiliatedatingsites.com for promotion. This has been a slowly but steadily moving project for a couple of months now.

Concept

It is a simple affiliate marketing idea - Using my knowledge and experience of running dating sites on affiliate programs I would review, write articles and document new projects I was working on. Pulling together a library of useful resources for affiliates or potential affiliates to dating / personals sites.
Quality ahead of Quantity

The site should have been at this stage earlier and still there is a lot of content to be added. The reason for the delay is I have not been working on adding content or adding features, but instead researching the industry and deciding the best way to rank affiliate programs. This needed to be a unique and common sense approach. Rather than looking at volume of traffic, or individual payouts per sign up I wanted to rank by looking at traffic, conversion ratios, retention rate, pricing and commission rates.

The site is now using this system in its latest program update. Each program is scored based on a number of factors to give an accurate indication of which programs have historically and month to month performed best (for me). Something which noone else is doing.
This had been a personal project of mine, but after being approached by another party I have recently made the deicision to also develop the idea on a bigger scale with their help.

Why run 2 Sites?

The new project will be developed as a new site, a larger resource with forums and other contributors from within the dating/online personals industry. I dont wish to give away too much at this stage but the site will not be a replacement of what I havealready done. I will continue to use and develop Affiliate Dating Sites as a personal blog of my experiences with affiliate programs and aim to add as much useful content and links as is possible.
The reason for running 2 similar sites simulataneously is because I wish to still experience and know what is happening with affiliate programs first hand. This will allow me to better develop an affiliate community. I also believe it is more useful to affiliates and new comers to read about programs from a personal point of view.

Timescales

There will be constant updates to Affiliate Dating Sites as I continue to work on my own network of dating and personals sites. I am also in a meeting tomorrow to discuss the new business, timescales and marketing ideas. The idea is to keep the momentum on these sites and build a good reader base quickly.
Both sites should prove to be a very useful resource to anyone interested in growing an income from one of the biggest and best paying industries on the internet.