Is it normal to have such high conversion rate in affiliate program

[ecomindia]

hi,
i just enrolled for one of the best hotel affiliation program - white label program.

After checking with the afiiliates, they mentioned i can promote website by buying traffic via advertising.
Also, i read in their FAQs , the following method which are legal to promote :

Attracting new targeted users to your site can be done using any of these methods:

- Buying traffic via advertising
- Search engine optimization
- Social media
- Using mobile applications

So, i have bought traffic from various websites like providing 10000 visitors in a month, 25000 visitors in a month etc
None of these sites from which i have bought traffic encourage clicks for leads. Only traffic to a particular URL.

Now today, i can see the earning increasing many folds.

Date	New visitors	Leads	Earnings	Lead value	Visitor value	Conversion value
2012-06-11	17	137	$31.70	$0.23	$1.86	806%

Is it normal to have such a high conversion rate?

 

[Gerry]

You are buying traffic...but not via advertising.


As for conversion...I would think that this is not too uncommon for a travel site. I know when I look to book flights, I typically will check 3 major airports in my location, non-stop and one-stop, and compare.

 

[ecomindia]

Thank you for the reply.
Yes, i have taken the global traffic targetting the homepage of the website.I think taking traffic to the page should not be an issue as the # of users going inside the hotels and then comparing the prices or actually booking the hotel is approx 3% of total visitors.

They are not in any way taken directly to the booking page or comparison page and no programming is done for any illegal leads.

Said that, i can see conversion happening and it is really getting better. Hope the same trend goes on as
1) People find India to be much cheaper place to travel although having beautiful places and tourism places
2) INR is currently really struggling to $ and is at it's lowest encouraging foreign tourists & domestic tourists

So, I am just hoping the program goes well so i can move my other 15 major tourism websites to this program. thanks