1. Image Search –> Anything that produces income. This strategy works great if you want to boost your ego, because it can be extremely effective for getting traffic. However, if you care about marketing or making money, image-search does almost nothing for you. I challenge anyone to take a stream of image searchers and to try to get them to act. Getting them to click ads is extremely difficult and getting them to make a purchase is even more difficult.

2. Personal Blogging –> Adsense. The bottom line is that people don’t really care about us. They are self interested. If you are trying to establish a blog while hoping that people are getting interested in YOU, you have a long road ahead of you. People care about what you can provide to them - they care about how you can solve their problems.

3. Social traffic –> Adsense. It doesn’t take degree from MIT to figure this one out. Social traffic rarely clicks ads of any kind. This happens because more often than not, these individuals are looking for entertainment. They also have a solid understanding of what ads are, and what they can expect to see if they click one. You can expect social traffic to click on an ad less than 0.25% of the time they hit one of your pages. That means you’ll need 400 social visitors to produce one click IF you’re lucky.

4. Social traffic –> Sales. Social traffic is also extremely difficult to sell to. Again, these people are looking for entertainment and honestly, are often information addicts. However, it is often possible to get them to subscribe to a feed and then convince them to make a purchase later.

5. PPC –> Adsense. People were making a killing with ‘Adsense Artbitrage’ a few short years ago. However, this is almost impossible to do in today’s climate. Google’s smart-pricing made this a LOT harder. There are still people claiming that it can be done, but as you might guess, these people are almost always trying to sell you a product that tells you how to do it.

When you’re involved with affiliate marketing, it’s always wise to have access to multiple affiliate networks. I have actually been looking for a few new ones lately, so the timing was perfect when Tatto Media (you can sign up here) contacted me about their network. I delete most of the emails I get about this sort of thing, because most of the networks that are out trying to contact people are small and have issues. This network really stood out and I decided to check them out.

Things That Stand Out About Tatto Media

1. They allow you to insert your own tracking pixels into their system. If you have ever done a lot of testing of your offers, you know that tracking is huge with affiliate marketing. Many networks will insert a tracking pixel for you but it’s a huge hassle. This system allows you to insert your own - awesome.
2. They have some of their own offers. This is interesting because by removing the third parties, it’s possible to provide higher payouts. If you know much about affiliate offers it’s easy to see that they have really solid payouts in their system - higher than most companies.
3. They have their own tracking system. One of the most frustrating things about affiliate marketing is that the tracking systems that are out there have issues. I think it was pretty dang smart for Tatto to create their own from the ground up.
4. They pay weekly. This is obviously a huge benefit. No need to explain more about that.

While I was checking out the system and the offers, I noticed that there were some offers that would match up really well with some of the sites I have. I’ve also passed them on to a few other friends. It helps out a lot to have some different options for networks because it’s common for one network to pay more than others.

I think it’s awesome that there’s an affiliate network that’s interested in improving the technology behind the business. Here’s a short list of things that they are doing to innovate:

• Offer Tiny URLs –You can shorten your tracking links with our own TinyURL.
• Browser Targeting - This allows you to send mobile users to a different author - awesome.
• Proprietary Tracking - Tracking issues are one of the biggest problems in the affiliate marketing world.

Right now Tatto is serving more than 3 billion ad impressions per month and have been growing really quickly. They have plenty of offers to choose from. I would highly recommend checking them out if you’re into affiliate marketing.