OK...Bill came out with honesty and real numbers , so will I.
I have never , really run a proper affiliate program.
I had an affiliate program , but the only traffic sender was...well nevermind ;-))
I have been a part owner of the biggest RAW Clicks program in its time , Traffic Inc , which on its best days could send 3m raws. Hopefully causing sarettah to sweat ;-))
Most I've ever done in a day is 350 joins to my own sites (all self generated)
I have no idea how many joins in a day I sent to HighSociety in a day , however on my best day it topped a million raw hits , with 200k coming from SEs.
The searchengine number of raws is doable still , but the "water" traffic from freehosts is long long gone.I Let them all fade away when HS was not buying the traffic from them.It was garbage.
Last time I beat 100 joins in a day to my own sites (self generated) was over a year ago.
I began to switch traffic away from adult back then.It got a little soul destroying to be sending 60k mail hits to some programs and getting 6 joins.
Switch the same traffic back then to pharmas , and BANG!! what was getting a daily income of say $300 to adult , suddenly got 3-5k to non adult.
I think a lot of the big traffic senders (ie mailers and SEOs) are concentrating on the far more lucrative markets of Non adult , incl pharma , gambling , folexes etc etc.
I must say recently by filtering real hard and learning one or two other new tricks from Oprano family , it is possible to see great conversion rates , and I am filled with enthusiasm as an old guy making a comeback.