TopRanked.io Weekly Affiliate Digest: What’s Hot in Affiliate Marketing [LVBET Affiliates Review]

Someone once told me the intro is the most important part of a blog/article. 

Apparently, you gotta grab people’s attention.

So here goes — my humble attempt to do just that.

Got your attention?

Good.

Now let’s get stuck into the good stuff — big affiliate opportunities and a really nice program to monetize with.

TopRanked.io Affiliate Partner Program of the Week — LVBET Affiliates

When it comes to sportsbook affiliate programs we’d actually recommend, there aren’t that many of ‘em out there.

Some are too stingy with their commissions.

Others try to pull tricks on you when they calculate your commissions.

And others simply don’t convert.

But, there are a few nuggets out there that we keep coming back to time and time again.

LVBet Affiliates is one of ‘em.

And here’s why.

LVBet Affiliates — The Product

Yeah, I know I just said “sportsbook affiliate programs” when introducing LVBet Affiliates.

So maybe you’re thinking I don’t need to dedicate an entire section to talking about LVBet Affiliates products.

But you’d only be half right.

Yes, LVBet Affiliates is a sportsbook affiliate program. And no, there’s nothing particularly remarkable about the sportsbook behind the LVBet Affiliate Program (It’s good, as good as the best of ‘em. Enough said.)

But, there’s still something I wanna talk about here — LVBet Affiliates is more than just a sportsbook program.

There’s also regular casino, live casino, and eSports on tap, too.

And that’s part of what we like about LVBet Affiliates — often, there’s a bit of overlap between the two (sports bettors will dabble in casino and vice versa), so better to promote something where you can profit off of the natural crossover, right?

Right.

And that’s just one small part of what we like about LVBet Affiliates.

LVBet Affiliates — The Commissions

So, LVBet’s product offering is fine.

What about the commissions?

Well, let’s start with the good news with LVBet.

First, there’s no negative carryover — that’s a positive.

Second, there are CPA and hybrid plans on offer with LVBet Affiliates (but, as is usually the case, you’ll have to negotiate with your affiliate manager).

And third, the minimum payout with LVBet Affiliates is just €50, so even if you have a quiet month, you’re probably still gonna get paid.

As for how much you’re gonna get paid, at first, that will depend on your revenue. The default LVBet Affiliates plan is rev share, and the commissions look like this:

Revenue Tier	Rev Share %
First 2 months	50%
€0 – €999	20%
€1000 – €4999	25%
€5000 – €14,999	30%
€15,000 – €34,999	35%
€35,000 +	40%

Oh, and if that’s not enough for ya, LVBet Affiliates also has a nice little 2-tier sub-affiliation plan that you might wanna check out.

Now, as for the downsides, there are two of ‘em.

First, LVBet Affiliates charges a 10% ‘admin’ fee on all commissions, which isn’t ideal. But, given the commission rates at LVBet Affiliates are decent, I think we can let them off the hook for this bit.

And second, commission payments are only sent in euros.

LVBet Affiliates — Next Steps

That’s enough about LVBet Affiliates for now. We’ve got other stuff to get to.

If you wanna learn more, then head on over to TopRanked.io for our in-depth LVBet Affiliate review.
Or, if you’re feeling more adventurous and just wanna get going right away, then head here to sign up with LVBet Affiliates today.

Affiliate News Takeaways

This week, Reddit dropped its Q3 earnings report.

Yeah, I know that’s probably totally boring, sleep-inducing stuff.

But we’re not here to talk about the numbers. There’s something more interesting here — all the “commentary” company execs make as they try to convince shareholders about all the value they’re creating.

And that leads me to the bit that also dropped with the earnings — the letter to shareholders. (Oh, also, since I started writing this, there’s more relevant news coming out of the earnings call transcript… here’s one article.)

So, what’s in the letter that’s got me so interested?

Well, there are a few points.

First, there’s barely any talk about AI.

The word appeared a total of 7 times.

And, where it did appear, it was for totally boring stuff.

Here are the mentions I found:

• Using AI to interpret subreddit rules to help users post effectively.
• Using AI to improve ad conversions.

And that was it.

And you thought me kicking off with a mention about an earnings report was boring.

So, what’s Reddit actually focusing on if it’s not really doing the whole cram-AI-into-every-nook-cranny-and-orifice thing?

Simple.

They’re focusing on search.

Yes. Search.

You know, like that thing people used to do back in the pre-2022 days where they’d type some semi-formed sentence into a text box in hopes of finding answers to their most vexing questions.

And when I say they’re talking about search, I mean, they’re really talking about it.

27 mentions versus the 7 I saw for AI.

So what’s got Reddit so interested in search?

I’ll let Reddit answer that:

“Search is one of our biggest opportunities because Reddit conversations are uniquely authentic,

contextual, and helpful.” [Reddit’s Q3 2025 Shareholder Letter]

Then there’s also this bit from the follow-up earnings call where he talks about Google searches still being a major traffic driver.

And there we all were, thinking for a moment that AI was going to kill search completely.

Guess search still has its use cases.

Now, to be clear here, when we talk about search and Reddit, there are two elements.

The first is, of course, traffic from search (which is apparently still strong).

And then there’s Reddit’s own in-built search (which they’re apparently working on improving).

But for the moment, I basically want to think of them as one and the same.

Why?

Because I think there’s a nice little takeaway here — that people out there using old-fashioned search engines/bars and finding value in them.

Now, obviously, I don’t have much to back this up aside from some anecdotal evidence (as fun as chatbots are, I still use regular search since I tend to prefer boring over hallucinated…) and general “vibes” from what Reddit’s saying.

So let’s move on from anecdotes and vibes for a moment and look at what some of the data out there actually has to say.

Let’s start by just looking at Reddit, because there’s an interesting data point here that might explain why they still like search.

That data point is SERP domination.

That right there is a “share of voice” report.

It’s basically a snapshot of search visibility for various websites. And, if that report is correct, Reddit is the third-most visible website (in the SERPs) out there on the internet.

Now, obviously, this doesn’t necessarily mean Reddit is highly visible for all searches.

That screenshot above is more of a general overview. If you drill down, things do look a little different.

For instance, here’s Reddit’s “share of voice” ranking for some popular categories on mobile:

And here’s the same for desktop:

Now, pay attention here, because I think there’s something interesting we can do here, which we’ll come back to. (I think there’s a new parasite SEO play here that’s a nice update on the original we detailed back in our Mate Affiliate Program review edition.)

For now, I wanna pull up some more numbers, including one of the most interesting tidbits from the share of voice report.

Over the same reporting period in 2024, Reddit was all the way back in the 29th spot on the “share of voice” rankings..

That’s a pretty dramatic rise, and it probably goes some way to explaining why Reddit loves search.

But what about everyone else?

Well, the general consensus out there is still more or less that “AI is bad for search traffic”.

But a lot of that’s still quite anecdotal, or, where numbers exist, they tend to be highly specific.

In other words, it’s a giant mess that nobody’s really cleaning up.

We’ve also got the small (okay, it’s kinda huge) problem of most SEO tracking tools being completely broken these days. Here’s an article from SEO Round Table talking about it.

And then there’s general weirdness happening with first-party stuff like Search Console.

And then we’ve also got the problem of people conflating other sites with AI.

What do I mean here?

Well, think about things like the whole “flooding the zone” thing we covered back in our Best VPN Affiliate Programs roundup edition.

tl;dr — big publishers (e.g., Forbes) have, for the last few years (even before AI dropped), been steadily flooding their sites with thousands of articles about everything and anything.

Net result — anyone who doesn’t have domain authority but operates in a niche an ‘authoritative’ site decides to go after loses traffic.

Oh, and just to make things even more confusing, don’t forget about the importance of “organic” vs “non-organic” clicks (i.e., actual results vs ads).

That’s another thing that’s also having an impact. For instance, here’s some data from earlier this year — between 2024 and 2025, organic clicks dropped from 44.2% down to 40.3%.

Oh, and then we also have to account for Google’s other self-dealing.

For instance, YouTube has now become the top destination for search traffic (according to this article). Or, to put numbers on it, in 2025, 14.3% of users click through to Google-owned properties compared to just 12.1% in 2024.

Oh, and here’s another fun statistic to throw into the “is AI killing search traffic mix”.

According to SEMrush, zero-click search rates (i.e., people search something but don’t click on a link) actually decline when AI overviews are introduced for a keyword.

Yes, that’s right — AI overviews actually increase click-through rates.

Here’s the exact line from the article:

“On average, keywords that trigger AI Overviews show higher zero-click behavior—likely due to their informational nature. But our same-keyword analysis shows zero-click rates actually declined slightly after AI Overviews were introduced.”

And yet, all the “data” out there that we hear about tends to tell us the exact opposite.

So yeah, I don’t know what to make of it all — it’s all a giant mess.

But what if we look at some other data?

Well, I saw this analysis, which I found kinda interesting.

Basically, it was trying to figure out just how much search was down because of chatbots.

Here’s the comparison for Google vs ChatGPT.

Now, I know it’s just one data point (and the “search intent” thing for ChatGPT is a giant extrapolation), but it does suggest something that maybe Reddit might be onto.

The average person seems to prefer normal, regular search over AI tools.

And if we look elsewhere, there’s plenty of other data to suggest that this might be more or less how things are going to settle (for now, at least).

For instance, there’s this report from Search Engine Land that looks at conversion rates for different sources (eCommerce).

Apparently, organic search converts at an average rate of about 13%, while chatbot traffic converts at a measly 0.2%.

Now, I know that doesn’t tell us much about search traffic per se.

But I think it tells us a lot about where people’s preferences will continue to lie. If they’re converting at such shockingly low rates when coming from a chatbot, it’s more or less signalling that they’re not getting relevant results from chatbots.

Takeaway

There are two things I wanna take away from this.

First, it’s that search hasn’t died, nor is it looking like it’s going to any time soon (it’s just changed in many non-chatbot-related ways).

Second, it’s all the Reddit’s search-related stuff. Given its dominance and its focus on search, it might be worth dusting off the old Reddit parasite SEO trick.

Now, while we don’t have exact numbers here, can extract a couple of things.

• External search traffic is still a major driver (about 50% of Reddit traffic comes from search engines, 50% direct)
• Internal search (Reddit’s own search) is already popular (and may become more so based on recent initiatives)

And that, as much as I hate to say it, probably makes Reddit the ideal affiliate playground for anyone wondering where they’re going to get traffic from.

Of course, that’s all easier said than done now that the whole Reddit parasite play has been done to death.

But there are variations here that aren’t so on the nose. For instance, instead of spamming actual spam, why not spam actually useful comments that reference some ‘interesting’ resource? (And leave out just enough information that people might actually want to visit that “interesting” resource).

That’s one (but there’s plenty more).

As for how to put this into actual practice, why not start by taking a look at what Reddit content is actually showing up on Google (numbers are back in the news section above).

E.g., sports — Reddit’s the 7th most visible site here.

Cool. Now go spin up a bunch of sports websites using AI.

Make some news sites (scrape other sources, AI rewrite).

Make some stats sites (plenty of APIs out there you can hook up to an AI).

Make some odds comparison sites.

And now you’ve got your sites, go create (or just buy) yourself an army of Reddit accounts and have them start posting.

It doesn’t even need to be high-effort content. Just go look at any sports subreddit — r/NFL, for instance, is about 60% people just posting links with little more than a single sentence.

So now you’re spamming your links to Reddit, there’s only one piece of the puzzle left.

The affiliate program.

Lucky for you, there’s LVBet Affiliates for that.

Closing Thought

AI and SEO are two topics that have more in common than one trying to eat the other.

Here, I’m particularly thinking about the ol’ hallucination problem.

You know, that thing where chatbots confidently state “this is how it is” while being completely off the mark? It’s not all that different to certain types in the SEO space who confidently tell you they know exactly what’s going on, even when there’s conflicting data out there or the data they’re relying on is thin.

And that got me thinking — there’s a quote out there for this.

So, what’s the point here?

Well, the point is that knowing something for sure is kinda dangerous.

Like that one time Google’s AI said this:

Or the thousands of times people with names like “marketing wizard” told you AI was going to kill SEO.

@thewizardmarketing

AI is taking over your search and potentially killing your SEO results #ai #aisearch #chatgpt #seo #seooptimization #marketing #branding #greenscreen #greenscreenvideo

♬ original sound – Jake | The Marketing Wizard

And yet, here we are two years later with SEO traffic still going strong.

[BTW, fun fact — the guy’s suggestion was to use social/paid ads. And guess what!? — Remember the conversion rate stats we pulled up in the news section (where ChatGPT converted at 0.2% whereas organic search converted at 13%)? That article also had this line: “only paid social converted worse than ChatGPT.” Do with that what you will.]

In other words, unless you really do have good reason to think that you can be absolutely sure about something, it’s probably best to take everything with a grain of salt.

Including everything I just said.

The only bit you can be 100% sure about is how great LVBet Affiliates is.

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