...se who are basicallyinterested in, for lack of a better term, "hooking up."So anyway, the AFF affiliate program (along with that of othersites in the network) is huge to say the least: I see theirlinks on porn sites all over the place. They pay affiliates, inone version of the program, just to send click-throughs in theirdirection. Think of it as Google Adwords for adult webmasters.What gets me is that they only pay you , the webmaster , half ofone cent to refer a surfer to t...

...heir site. Half of a penny! Andthat's only per unique IP address. So if a surfer clicks on alink that leads to their site the first time, even if he clickson that same link many more times in a space of - I don't know -one hour, the webmaster who placed that link only gets hismeasly 0.5 cents. Who knows? That unique IP address may remainsuch for life...Now here's where the folks at AFF (specifically) make out likebandits: if they were to run a pay-per-click advertisingcampaign with any reputable online advertising giant - e.gGoogle Adwords, sex.com, Overture, MIVA - the minimum they couldexpect to spend is 3 cents per click (at sex.com). Moreover,several of those sites don't guarantee targeted traffic; meaningthat the sites where your ads are displayed are not necessarilygeared towards an adult-minded audience. Trust me on this one, because I've basically tried (and am stillcurrently trying) all those PPC advertising sites. Theconversion rates in terms of sales generated per certain numberof clicks are not all they're cracked up to be for many of thesites.On the other hand, when an AFF link or banner is placed at anadult site (because for the most part a webmaster would onlyplace an AFF advert on his adult site. If he didn't specificallyhave an adult-themed site, it would make more sense for him topromote one of the other FF sites.), not only is the AFF cost ofadvertising much cheaper (half a cent), their traffic is verymuch of a targeted, niche variety.And at this stage in the game, they can pretty much get awaywith it. Like I said before, AFF has notoriety on their side.Webmasters in the porn industry are not allowed to sign up forthe Adsense program (because Google forbids it). So it's prettymuch common knowledge in the industry that AFF (and a couple ofother adult-themed sites in its network) is the place to look tofirst if you want to get paid cash for your traffic. Similarly, ImageCash is an image hosting website that pays youwhen a surfer clicks over to their website to view an imageyou've uploaded. How will the surfer know what image he'sclicking through to see, you ask? The link is a (most times)smaller preview version of the actual photo. What you do usuallyis post that preview at a message board or on your website.The issue (I hesitate to say problem because it all depends onyour perspective) is that ImageCash only pays you at the rate of$1 for 6666 image views (now it is me, or does just the payscale itself sound evil and wrong with all of those 6s?). Andthat translates to about 0.15 of a cent. That's the bad news.The good news is that you can host adult images there, and ifyour photos are particularly appealing, you can rack up theimage views rather quickly. The difference between ImageCash and AFF is (I believe) that theformer pays you for every single view of your uploaded photo, nomatter how many times a single viewer may click on the samepreview image. However, much like with AFF, for lack of asuitable alternative, ImageCash is the most popular way I knowof to get paid cash just for sending traffic (in this case, forimage views).High volume for low pay: yes, the Walmart model of businesssuccess is alive and well on the net.