The Serious Partners adult affiliate program gives all appearance to being abandoned. Although the sites and tools continue to work, updates have stopped and help tickets go unanswered, which is especially problematic for affiliates needing to change their payment details.
Recently recommended to us, Serious Partners appears to be a very good adult affiliate program for affiliates looking for mainly amateur and toon sites to promote. The Serious Partners program does not limit itself to just those niches, however, but they are obviously the main focus and make up the majority of sites. Best of all, most of the program’s sites have RSS feeds that appear to be updated daily. The amount of text found in the feeds and galleries varies by site, but most seem to be of good length to help in your own promotional efforts. While most sites have large areas to browse, it should be noted that the sites use cookies and not hard-links to track visitors. Meaning that if they bookmark a page they like, other than the page they landed on with your webmaster ID, and return later to join after dumping their cookies or the cookie has expired, you will not be credited for that sale. [Review updated 10/05/2019]
About the Serious Partners Program
Payment Structure: 50-70% RevShare
Payment Schedule: Biweekly
Payment Methods: ePayments, Paxum, WebMoney, and Wire.
Payment Minimum: $75
Program Features
Sites: 38 – Hover here to view them.
Hosted Galleries: YES
Type of Content: High Res Pics and Videos – AVI, Flash, MPEG, and WMV.
Exclusive Content: YES
Updates: YES
RSS Feeds: YES
Morphing Feeds: NO
Tube Clips: YES
Mobile: NO
Content and Hosting: NO
Hosted TGP/MGP: NO
Hosted POTD/VOTD: NO
Trials: $1/1 day
Cross Sales: None
Summary
To be clear, the Serious Partners adult affiliate program using cookies is not considered a deceptive tactic; many adult affiliate programs use cookies for tracking visitors. But, it is worth mentioning as affiliate would be best served keeping it in mind as they plan their promotional efforts – personally, for programs that use cookies we recommend limiting your linking almost exclusively to galleries. In fact, looking through the galleries and sponsor sites we saw nothing that would raise red flags such as use of canonical links, nofollow link attribute tags or robots files that would disallow linking of affiliate links.
All in all, we think Serious Partners is a very good adult affiliate program, though more affiliate tools would be nice. If you are an affiliate looking for good amateur, toon or girlfriend sites to promote, especially those with daily updated RSS feeds, we suggest you check out Serious Partners.