Affiliation - OPEN

[Sunjo]

So you wish to affiliate with Varia Studios.
Here are the rules and requirements for you to become an affiliate with Varia Studios.

We accept most affiliation requests, however, there are strict standards your website must meet in order to affiliate with us to be listed in the top three affiliates list, which is displayed constantly on the forum.

Criteria for becoming a top affiliate

[/b] board can not be a proboards forum.
2. Your website or forum must be getting 1,000+ unique visitors per day.
3. Your forum must be active, we will not raise your forum from the dead for you.
4. The past reputation of your forum will be taken into consideration when applying for an affiliation position with Varia Studios.
5. If you're a top affiliate, we expect to be a top affiliate of your's too. If our banner is not displayed in clear sight at all times, or if it's part of a randomizer, or marquee table, you will not become a top affiliate.
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^{Some exceptions may be made.}

With the elite affiliation, our top 3 will be decided using a tracing cookie enabled so that we can see where most of our traffic is coming from. If you are in the top 3 for this category, then you will be in our top 3 affiliate section. However, if you aren't in this top 3 then it doesn't matter, you are still our elite affiliate, just try and get more hits to beat one of the top 3

Rules for becoming an Affiliate & Other Information

[/b] for any reason our mini - banner must be removed for a temporary or permanent time, notification must be given to either Sven or Sunjo one week in advance.
2. If our mini - banner is removed without prior notification or reasoning then your mini - banner will be removed.
3. Your mini - banner must be the size of 88x31 or else it will not be accepted.
4. Your mini - banner must be below 15kb in file size, or it will not be accepted.
5. Your forum must have at least 5,000 posts to apply as an affiliate, this is here simply to stop spam affiliates. (new forums looking for easy traffic)
6. Any website may apply for affiliation, providing you have your own paid domain.
7. If your proboards forum is an unique designing forum, we will consider affiliating with you on a "top affiliates" basis.
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If for any reason, these rules are not adhered to, your forums' mini - banner will be removed without notification. Due to this, once your mini - banner has been removed it will not be able to put back up and all requests at re - affiliation will be denied.

To apply to become an affiliate of Varia Studios, post in this thread and a reply will be returned within a week.




Our Affiliate Banners:



<a href="http://varia.proboards.com"><img src="http://wimg.co.uk/28rM4i.gif" border="0" alt="Varia Studios"></a>



<a href="http://varia.proboards.com"><img src="http://wimg.co.uk/31csGO.gif" border="0" alt="Varia Studios"></a>



Any further updates will be posted below by either myself or my cooperative administration partner Sven.

Kind Regards,
Sven and Sunjo

_{Varia Studios Cooperative Administrative Staff Team}

[~Aren]

Um, well, mine's not a paid advertising forum, but... *puppy eyes*

<a href='http://azurespotlight.proboards.com'><img src='http://img407.imageshack.us/img407/5092/affiliatezs7.jpg' border='0' alt='Azure' title='Azure' /></a>

I'll put your guy's affiliate up even if it's not accepted.

[Sunjo]

You have 5k+ posts so you qualify, the paid domain only applies if it's a website (not forum) wanting to affiliate.

Added to the affiliates list.

[XeroCint]

So it hast to be a forum?

[Sunjo]

6. Any website may apply for affiliation, providing you have your own paid domain.

Although we will consider the activity of your website, we don't just accept any and all websites.

[XeroCint]

Okay, what if I tweeted something about the activity of Varia every 12 hours? This would be giving it a lot more coverage than a normal affiliate.

[Sunjo]

I'm not really familiar with twitter.. I'll let sven answer that.

[XeroCint]

Mar 31, 2009 9:50:15 GMT -5 Sunjo said:

I'm not really familiar with twitter.. I'll let sven answer that.

I have 50 followers, but I get lots of people who still check out my Twitter. Considering I post about 30 or so tweets a day, I get about 1500 views a day, although it could be higher due to other randoms checking out hashtags and @mentions.

One thing I'd ask though, is that you made all of the boards public, so that I could post direct links to the threads I was mentioning. If you wouldn't be willing to this, though, that'd be fine, I could still just point to the main URL and say to sign up or something.

[Spaz]

Sounds cool Xero.

[ViTuspek]

Doubt you guys will be getting very many applicants -- just stick to finding major sites and befriending their staff to putting yours up.

Also, affiliates work both ways. You can't just say "we want super active sites only" when VS isn't the epitome of Internet activity.

My advice: start out small time and change your requirements on an as-needed basis.

Up to your though.

[Sunjo]

Our requirements aren't bad actually, 1k unique hits isn't much considering we get more than that ourselves.

We also had a few affiliates waiting, so we're not hurting for interest. I like the system we have now, if you put us an elite affiliate, we put you as an elite, so everyone gets a lot of traffic.

Here's the stats from today.

Day Date Page Loads Unique Visitors
Tuesday March 31st 2009 6,757 1,415

[XeroCint]

Wait, my Twitter gets a bit more coverage? Wow, I'm actually surprised...

[Sven]

heh, Varia gets more than 1k as Sunjo already pointed out To say that we only accept sites with over 1k views, is pretty reasonable in my opinion. And we don't WANT a flood of requests, we'd be fine with 5 core affiliates or something along those lines anyway.

[Parker]

Just a lil question how do you find out how many views your forum gets?