The TopRanked.io Weekly Digest: What’s Hot in Affiliate Marketing [MegaPari Partners Affiliates Program]

After what seemed like forever, it now seems like inflation is firmly under control again.

As for what this has to do with affiliate marketing, take a look at this meme and pretend 50 Cent is your CPA commission deal.

Moral of the story?

It’s easier to keep up with inflation on a rev share deal.

Especially if it’s a really good one.

Topranked.io Affiliate Program of the Week — MegaPari Partners Affiliates Program

Hey, so speaking of really good rev share deals, guess what I dug up out of the TopRanked.io affiliate marketing program directory archives?

Yep. I found you a 50% rev share deal.

Want in?

Then meet the MegaPari Partners affiliates program.

MegaPari Partners Affiliates Program — The Product

If you sign up with the MegaPari Partners affiliates program, you’re obviously gonna have to promote a product. That product is a sportsbook.

And a pretty good one at that.

For starters, they’re currently serving over 50 countries, so you’ll have plenty of choice of what geos you wanna promote in with the MegaPari Partners affiliates program.

Also, the base product has plenty of nice welcome bonuses and other promotions built in. Plus, as a member of the MegaPari Partners affiliates program, you’ll also get access to some exclusive vouchers and promos to help boost conversions.

And then there’s the fact you can also promote to both fiat and crypto players when you join the MegaPari Partners affiliates program.

Sweet right?

Well, hold on. It gets even better.

While the main focus in the MegaPari Partners affiliates program is definitely sports betting, turns out that’s not all your limited to. In fact, the MegaPari Partners affiliates program even has a pretty nice little casino program on the side, too.

The only thing is, little probably wasn’t the right adjective to use there. When you’ve got a choice of several thousand slot games to promote in the MegaPari Partners affiliates program, that’s probably something better described as an extremely solid offering.

Oh, and speaking of extremely solid offerings, have you seen the MegaPari Partners affiliates program commissions?

MegaPari Partners Affiliates Program — The Commissions

So, I’ve already done the big reveal for the top rev share rate in the MegaPari Partners affiliates program. So I’ll just get right to the point and give you the whole MegaPari Partners affiliates program commission table.

Here it is.

Number of Clients Referred Through the MegaPari Partners Affiliates Program	MegaPari Partners Affiliates Program Rev Share %
0 – 20	25%
20 – 30	30%
30 – 40	35%
40 – 50	40%
50 – 70	45%
70+	50%

Also, even though I might have hinted that CPA commissions aren’t the best if you wanna keep up with inflation (unless you like negotiating all the time), the MegaPari Partners affiliates program does offer them.

All you gotta do is ask.

MegaPari Partners Affiliates Program — Next Move

Alright, that does it for our quick review of the MegaPari Partners affiliates program.

As always, if you want more details, head on over to TopRanked.io for our full MegaPari Partners affiliates program review.

Or, if you know what’s best for you, then you could just click here to signup with the MegaPari Partners affiliates program right now.

Affiliate News Takeaways

A Blast From the Past

Alright, I might have titled this one a blast from the past. But if you’re a lover of retro nostalgia and the good ol’ days… 

…then don’t get your hopes up.

We’re not going that far back.

Instead, we’re only going back 2 weeks, back to that one time when we did a Partners.io affiliate review and then told you how to profit off of sportsbooks/casinos shutting up shop.

Now, for those who missed it, the basic gist of that play goes like this:

• When a sportsbook/casino shuts down or leaves a market, most of its clients will look for a new operator.
• If you can target those people, you can probably get them to click on a couple of links for said new operator.
• If those links are your affiliate links, you make bank.

Sweet right?

But why am I bringing it up again?

Well, that’s because these two stories just popped up in the last couple of days:

• Virginia no longer a market for Betfred Sportsbook (link)
• Massachusetts latest state to kick Bovada to the curb (link)

In other words, Virginia and Massachusetts are about to lose Betfred and Bovada, respectively.

Takeaway

I said it last time, but I’m gonna say it again.

This whole “target people wherever sportsbooks/casinos are shutting up shop” thing is a strategy you can repeat again, and again, and again, and again, all the way to a “set for life” passive income.

All you gotta do is template up a bunch of generic content, fill in the blanks, and watch the mullah start rolling in.

And while there is some manual work involved here (you gotta check the news…), the rest can definitely go on semi-auto pilot.

I mean, do you really think you couldn’t just template up a bunch of “Best [operator name] alternatives for [state] residents” content?

Of course you can.

Oh, and speaking of scaling, you’re probably gonna want a good sportsbook/casino affiliate program where you commissions will scale along the way, too.

I hear the MegaPari Partners affiliates program scales all the way up to 50% rev share.

The Long(er) and Short of It

This week, word dropped that YouTube is once again just copying stuff from TikTok.

Only, this time, it kinda looks a bit stupid. I mean, why call your TikTok rip off platform “Shorts”, and then announce you’re gonna let people post long(ish) videos?

Makes no sense to me.

Anyway, that’s not what I wanted to talk about. Nor is the rest of the TikTok-esque stuff YouTube announced.

Instead, I wanna talk about a single paragraph I read buried in the article where I read about this stuff. Here’s the article.

And here’s the paragraph from that article:

“YouTube says it will “soon” allow users to preview what people are saying in the comments directly from the Shorts feed — a change that could encourage more interaction with videos and that could prompt creators to publish “rage bait” — videos designed to get a reaction — in the hopes of increasing engagement.”

Now, maybe this will be a thing. Or maybe it won’t.

But, if it is a thing, I reckon there’s a way to make some money with this.

Takeaway

Let’s be honest. Monetizing rage bait isn’t the easiest thing to do.

I mean, how do you monetize this?

But, if you look hard enough, there are a few places where rage bait has a very real tie in with something that’s exceedingly lucrative.

Here’s a hint.

Yep, turns out, the “soccer” season is under way.

And, if there’s one set of sports fans with a reputation for getting just a little too worked up, it’s English soccer fans.

So here’s an idea.

Start publishing a bunch of football score predictions as YouTube shorts. But, instead of going with some boring old standard format, add a little rage bait.

You could go with the relatively inoffensive: “Here’s why [fan favorite player] will loose the match for [Team X]”.

Or, if you really wanna up the ante, try something like this: “Proof [Team X] Are a Right Bunch of Soft C**cks”.

Anything to get to hooligans raging.

Then, once you get their attention, redirect it to something that’ll make you money. The MegaPari Partners affiliates program can help you out with that.

WordPress Is Going on the Warpath

If there’s one thing I love more than affiliate marketing, then it’d have to be other people’s dirty laundry.

Or more specifically, watching other people air their dirty laundry in public.

That’s why this caught my attention. (That and the fact I think there’s some serious affiliate bucks to make here… but we’ll get to that in the takeaway.)

Matt Mullenweg and Automattic’s self-proclaimed scorched earth campaign against WP Engine has harmed not just our company, but the entire WordPress ecosystem. The symbiotic relationship between WordPress, its community and the businesses that invest millions to support WordPress…

— WP Engine (@wpengine) October 3, 2024

Now, if you don’t know what’s going on here, the long story short goes a little like this:

• “WordPress” basically exists as two distinct entities — the non-profit WordPress foundation which oversees the open source community side of things, and Automattic.
• Automattic holds the WordPress trademark.
• It sent a letter to WP Engine, a WordPress hosting company.
• That letter demanded that WP Engine pay a licensing fee for its use of the WordPress trademark.
• The letter also said WP Engine would lose access to all WordPress.org resources if it failed to comply (i.e., it would be unable to access WordPress servers to do updates and stuff).
• WP Engine said, “no way, we ain’t payin’.”
• Automattic went ahead and blocked WP Engine.
• WP Engine filed a complaint against Automattic with the District Court for Northern California.

And that brings you mostly up to date as of yesterday’s tweet.

There are, of course, plenty of side narratives and details I’m skipping over here, like that one time Automattic’s CEO, Matt Mullenweg, called WP Engine a cancer.

That was a low blow.

I mean, come on, where’s the respect for people with cancer?

Where were we?

Right, details of the story.

Like I said, pretty much everything you need to know to get the gist of things is above. But, if you really wanna get into all the gory details, there’s plenty of stuff floating around.

Here’s a bit more of an in-depth explainer from TechCrunch. Here’s a cease and desist letter WP Engine sent after it got all butthurt by Mullenweg’s cancer comments. Here’s the lawsuit from WP Engine. And here’s Automattic’s response to it.

Anyway, now that bit of the story’s taken care of, there’s still a bit more I wanna get to before the takeaway.

As it turns out, it sorta looks like this little WP Engine spat is the culmination of Mullenweg going on the warpath over the last couple of years.

Here’s an example from another Tweet screenshotted from a couple of years ago (2022).

Now, here, when Matt says “GD”, he’s talking about GoDaddy. And while he didn’t drop the same C word he dropped for WP Engine, the ‘complaint’ is more or less the same.

So what’s going on here?

Well, to cut a long story short again, what’s got Matt’s panties in a knot are companies that profit off of WordPress without contributing anything back to the open source project.

More specifically, the really big companies.

His reasoning basically goes like this:

• Open source is free to use.
• But open source needs maintainers or else it dies.
• Ideally, companies profiting off of WordPress should contribute.
• Even more so if they’re big.
• This is because big hosting companies like WP Engine and GoDaddy keep gobbling up more and more of the hosting market.
• This means smaller companies are getting swallowed, getting smaller, or dying.
• Swallowed/smaller/dead companies can’t contribute much to WP.
• Therefore, if all that’s left is a couple of giant hosts who don’t contribute much, WordPress dies.

This is a bit more than a bit of PR spin, too.

As it turns out, Mullenweg gave WP Engine two options for how it would pay for its use of the WordPress trademark. Either it could pay cash money, or it could contribute an equivalent amount of hours to helping the WordPress.org foundation maintain the open source WordPress project.

Takeaway

This is going to be a long and messy battle.

Oh, and WP Engine isn’t the only one being affected by this. Seem’s like Mullenweg’s out for blood and is chasing multiple companies across the WP ecosystem.

The ACF team has been blocked from accessing WordPress dot org and are unable to release updates for the free version of ACF.

We have a solution to ensure users receive updates going forward.

Learn how to manually update to the latest version of ACF:https://t.co/c74bgiAlE6

— Advanced Custom Fields (@wp_acf) October 3, 2024

In the meantime, there’s probably going to be at least a handful of WordPress users who’re gonna start getting concerned about their ability to keep their WordPress updated.

Although, on second thoughts, maybe a break from updates is a nice thing…

Anyway, the point is, I reckon of few people with WordPress sites are gonna start looking for alternative plugins/hosts. After all, if WordPress is actively trying to block your hosting company/plugin creator and you actually care about your site not getting hacked, this is kinda big.

And that’s where you, the humble affiliate, can step in and make a pretty penny.

All you gotta do is get some solid alternatives on these peoples’ radars.

Now, I’m not gonna list out every relevant web hosting affiliate program out there (see our listing of the best web hosting affiliate programs on TopRanked.).

But, seeing as we looked at them just last month, I will suggest you go take a serious look at our A2 Hosting affiliate program review.

As for why A2 in particular, that’s because I reckon they’re gonna be safe from Mullenweg’s retaliation.

Let me explain.

Currently, WP Engine contributes 40 hours a week to WordPress.org and makes about $400 million in annual revenue.

A2 Hosting contributes 28 hours a week but only makes $16.5 million.

Already, that means A2’s contributing about 20x what WP Engine is relative to its revenue.

But that multiple gets even bigger if you account for how many other products A2 has, meaning most of its revenue isn’t even from WP.

So yeah, they should be safe.

Also, you’re welcome to steal that argument if you need something to convince WP Engine customers that A2’s a safe place to migrate to. You’re welcome.

Of course, if the whole hosting scene’s not really your bag, just forget about all of the above and go and promote something else. With 50% rev share commissions, the MegaPari Partners affiliates program could be just the thing you’re looking for.

Closing Thought

This week Musk dropped this news.

Same goes for italics and any other formatting. They are being abused for engagement farming

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 1, 2024

Originally, I wan going to put it in the news… but I couldn’t think of a way to make money off of it, so I left it out.

So then I thought I’ll use it as a closing thought.

So, what’s the big, profound takeaway?

Well, I still haven’t decided. But I reckon there are a few.

Here’s one: If you make a bad decision, don’t be afraid to backpedal if it’s for the best.

There’s one. Want another?

Here’s another: You can have too much of a good thing.

How about another?

Alright, here’s another: Go read our Libertex Affiliate Program review edition where we spoke about the law of sh*tty clickthroughs. This is a great example of how things degrade from “a cool engagement farming hack” to “a great example of the law of sh*tty clickthroughs”.

And how about another takeaway?

Alright, here’s one more: There’s more than one way to read into anything.

Of course, that last rule doesn’t apply to everything. After all, if you’re earning 50% commissions with the MegaPari Partners affiliates program (which you can), there’s only one way to interpret that (as a really good thing).

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