+ They protect their brand extremly hard sometimes. It sounds too much in 2010.
- They are not very flexible and innovative. That’s all. We are expecting a much more flexible and sophisticated automatic commission distribution system. Direct oration, plain speech, fairly fair play!

- Bad reality: when my visitor do not include my unique affiliate ID number in the link to Booking.com we won’t get any commission for bookings made via this link. They remember only the brand BOOKING.COM, it is absolutely normal. It could happen every day.

+ Good vision: we are lucky if we have a lot of instant bookings. They could pay extra for good partners for this kind of “free advertising”. They have a very profitable business so they could manage it in the near future. This is donation and fairness together.

Their usability is good enough so we can recommend to join the affiliate system without any stupid doubt in 2010.

+ Payments are made on a monthly basis, 30-60 days after the bookings have been finalised.
+ Working with iframes and white label implementation can solve some problems.
+ 0,5-2 % – These percentages in conversions are good enough to attract entrepreneurs, bloggers.

The biggest partner of booking.com: Combined price collector and reservation fow worldwide destinations HERE – Searching all the best travel sites at once and find the cheapest price by a very clever system. The pay affiliate commission too, it was the highest earlier.

Try to find some offers first, find out more browsing their pages:

Easy to use Online Hotel Reservation Worldwide – best rate guarantee HERE.

Contract: www.booking.com/general.en.html?tmpl=docs/partner_print:

5.1 Commission split
5.1.1 Booking.com will pay the Affiliate for each Materialised Transaction the Commission, by using a percentage commission split for the number of Materialised Transactions, in accordance with the following table (the “Percentage Commission Split”):

Materialised Transactions per month Percentage Commission Split (only for booking after validation, ~ 2 months later)
0-50 25%
more than 50 30%
more than 150 35%
more than 500 40%

Payments and commission categories are good.

They had suspended my account and denied the payment of commission and they reopened it later and payed for me.

A HotelsCombined affiliate e-mail:

“We suspended your account because your traffic quality was very poor.  It took a long time to identify this, because your traffic volumes were so low too.  This means that you have very little traffic, and what you do have is very poor quality.

Note that we compare 30+ different providers, so booking.com and HRS form only a very tiny part of our hotel inventory.

If you really want to repair your relationship with us, I strongly suggest you focus on sending good quality traffic to your remaining Affiliate Links.  This is the only way to get your Affiliate account out of its suspended state, by generating some real revenue for us.

Regards,

Hotels Combined Affiliate Team

Hotels Combined Pty Ltd
3/173-179 Broadway,
Ultimo, Sydney, NSW, 2007, Australia

—

I knew some SEO experts, they were very tricky and they could send huge amount of traffic to HotelsCombined in 2009. I do not use these kind of tricks. I have very nice travel blogs with good conversions rates. I prefer booking.com affiliate system (~1%).

The newbie, dhr.com affiliate looks like a fake, non-working, or non-fexible money ingesting online travel agency. Their promotional description is much more nicer. Take a look at it below. What is the truth?

DHR stands for Discount Hotel Reservations and www.dhr.com is one of the most popular and largest online hotel booking websites on internet, providing discounted accommodations in more than 15,000 cities worldwide.

* Why pay more for the same room? Pay less, get more, in over 40 countries.

They are different from many other online travel and booking websites because they enable customers to book on accommodations which recently provide huge discounts.

Below are a few of the numerous factors why customers decide on dhr.com:

Most excellent Rate Promise – In the event the customer discovers the identical offer on the internet somewhere else at a lower price they will match that price tag and return the customer 100% of the difference. This gives customers a relaxation knowing that their booked hotel rate is the cheapest.

Vast Choice of Hotels – select from more than 150,000 hotels in in excess of 198 countries and 15,000 cities on www.dhr.com

Comfort – hunt for rooms by price tag, rankings, destination, real customer reviews plus more.

Resorts categorized by concepts such as Business, Health spa, High-class, Inexpensive hotels and others

No service charge or modification service charge.
www.dhr.com website screenshot
DHR.com Best hotel deals

It is now easy to know about latest hotel deals and discounts before others. DHR booking website provides an opt-in email alert list. Therefore, you can get right into your email box if you join it. The rest is easy. Just click on the deal you like and book online in a few steps on www.dhr.com
DHR Secret Hotel Booking

There is an interesting but very useful on DHR travel website.

You can locate excellent hotel deals at secret hotels. They are completely price cut hotels which DHR is unable to release with their titles because of the hotel’s pricing strategy. They name these particular ones as secret hotels or no name hotels however they are specific well-known hotels for example Ritz Carlton, Hilton, Doubletree, Sheraton or different hotels that offer these special reduced rates in trade of concealing their names. Spend less up to 70% off on top quality hotels in places all across the globe for instance London, Nyc, Paris, Turks and Caicos hotels and much more…

Here is how secret hotel booking operates

Make a reservation for your chosen secret hotel

The name and address of the hotel is going to be delivered to you with the verification e-mail & voucher.

Give out your pre-paid voucher to the hotel and luxuriate in your vacation
Find Hotels for Group Bookings

DHR also provides discounts similar to hotelplanner group hotel booking service.

Planning a vacation for Organization, student study, wedding ceremony, family members special event or sporting occasion? They can deliver an superb selection of holiday accommodation to match all needs and financial constraints. You will discover that their group prices provide outstanding monetary value.

During the time of your group hotel booking demand DHR com will seize 25% of the booking sum. The total amount is due only 45 days prior to the check in date. In the event the check in day is within 45 days subsequently the full amount is going to be captured.

That was the hotel booking website full review. For full list of features visit that travel site or ask us.

We just wanted to join the system to test it, it was too long and difficult for a webmaster too . Some errors have occured.

Please write a review as a comment.

What is the average commission?

What are the conversions rates?

Do they use real cookies?

When do they pay?

Hostels are relatively cheap, but they have huge amount of visitors in Summer (high season) and in big cities (e.g.: Berlin, London, Amsterdam or Paris).

We could not find any sources of reviews oh HRS. We tried to use the system this year, but it had some errors in 2010. A friend of mine used HRS.com affiliate program in 2008 with 50% (extremely high) commission, it was successful but he finished the program.

The German hotel booking company made some very nice developments. Their system is very quick. It is easy to use, to filter. Just try it for big cities.

I liked to use them for German cities, Prague, Budapest, Wien and some other Austrian cities, airport hotels. They have good offers for many other destinations too. You might be lucky with them for ski resorts, holidays in Spain, discounted packages sometimes.

Have you got payments? Do you like HRS affiliate system and agreement?

screenshot hrs.com

All payments are made by Direct Bank Transfer to your bank account.

You will be paid the month following the guest’s departure from the hotel. For example, if a guest stays March 28-April 4, you would be paid in May. Commission payments are calculated on the first day of each month, with payments made by the 15th of the month with the minimum commission payment being US$200. If the amount of commission due is less than US$200, the balance will be carried forward until the minimum payout level is reached.

The commission rate depends on the number of booking departures in a calendar month. Booking departures refers to completed bookings where the customer has stayed at and departed from the hotel. All commission is calculated from our net margin on each booking. The following is our standard commission scale:
Number of Departures Affiliate Commission Percentage
1 – 49 35%
50 – 99 37.5%
100 – 199 45%
200 – 999 55%
1000+ 60%

The formula used to calculate the payment is:

Commission Paid = (CI – HI – (CI*PP)) * ACP

CI = Client Invoice (what the client paid to us)
HI = Hotel Invoice (what we paid to the hotel)
PP = Processing Percentage = 2.6%
ACP = Affiliate Commission Percentage

Please note that this scale is subject to change in accordance with the Affiliate Agreement.

* Highest commission up to 60%. Beware of competitors’ promises! E.g.: HotelsCombined.com.
Check our comparison chart to see how you can avoid being fooled.

* Longest cookie life one whole year! We are one of the few to offer such a long term tracking system. Our cookies track returning clients and repeat business.

* Partner support a rapid-response and dedicated support team of affiliate experts. This is unique to Agoda.

* Versatile technology Agoda has the most advanced tools which are sophisticated yet easy to use. We will work with you to determine the best ones, and directly integrate them onto your site.

* Advantage Agoda 100,000 hotels worldwide.
Nearly a million loyal travelers. 10 years in business.
24/7 online help in multiple languages. Best inventory conversion rate.
All unique advantages you can offer your customers.

How much you can earn with SEO tricks or AdSense ads?

Is Agoda a SEO brand of Booking.com? It is written in the affiliate agreement.

Let’s review them! Share your observations, thought.

Ian (Expedia, hotels.com etc.): you can book hotels, holidays, airplane tickets at good rates but the system is too mysterious. Why is it so hard to earn money for affiliates?

We get Newletters, infos. Is it worthy? YES or NO?
Eg: “We’ve had a lot of requests from partners for help designing their EAN site in WordPress. Find out more about WordPress and how to create your own site below and on our blog.

This month our SEO tips focus on how to find your niche within the travel industry – this is absolutely cruicial to success in this competitive market.“

Business life in USA is extremly brutish to my mind (by my observations). Europe might be a more friendly market.

I wrote about my experiences in 2009-2010 now. This company (Hotel.info or Hotel.de) is very strange to my ming. They could not generate any leads. So I should have deleted all of their affiliates links at the end. Did you have any success with them in long term? Are there only 17 languages available?

I thought they had good offers. That was not enough. Booking.com made something like 0,5-1 % conversion rate, hotelscombined.com made (30% leads). The value of leads were double for booking.com.

Hotel.de made zero (0%) for me. I am really optimistic so I think they are much more better for Germany market in German (in Deutsch). They still have huge amount of traffic: www.alexa.com/siteinfo/hotel.de.They were the leader in the German hotel reservation market overtaking Hrs.de too.

Please write about your NOT-secret methods, experiences how to make more bookings. When could Newsletters works? How many subscribers can make a deal etc? I like working in Italian and Spanish market. They have very nice Holiday offers but this year most of the people stayed at home or booked a last minute travel with agencies.

Was this a too pessimistic review?

Do hotel.info has great last minute offers too?

What are your tactics to attract more visitors or making better leads?

Making Unique Selling Points is hard?-By using our good selling points you can explain to your user why you have chosen to partner with an online booking agency and how the user benefits from this deal (E.g.: No Booking Fees, Last Minute Availability). Is the serach box the only right integration type?

hotel.de the German Hotel Booking system with affiliate program

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How to gude:
* Monitor your results
* Use the best placements
* Maximize the traffic
* Design Best Practices
* Further improvements

Search Engine optimization techniques (SEO) can help you increase you traffic by getting better positioning on search engines.
We use basic advices for example in the Google Webmaster Central.
A helpful guide is available: Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide.

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As we know big international companies rule the world. Google tries to help small blogs and enthusiastic sites so everybody has a chance to break out of poverty with costant or imaginativ/ lucky work.

At the age of 33, I want peaceful life. Family, work and self-actualization.

Who cares about you? Google should be a friend of yours but your need REAL friends and physical contants to live a good life (long term). Searching effective accommodation partner programs for use, home-based businesses, bloggers or popular websites.

We wrote about hotelscombined.com and booking.com first. We have to write about HRS.COM (hrs.de) and IAN.COM – Expedia now (www.expediaaffiliate.com). We need your help for these reviews. We do not have enough experiences about them. We could tip or bet . I hope they reach 0,5% in conversion rates so we can calculate with them.

I liked to use other online hotel booking system earlier. E.g.: www.hotel.info, www.easytobook.com, www.travelocity.com, www.hotelclub.com or www.octopustravel.com …

Who should be the best in the cheap accommodation category? HostelBookers offer a great affiliate plan, cheap hotels and hostels all around the World.

How much can we earn with this accommodation reservation services? What is a normal, average monthly income? Europe, USA or International topics might be very different because of the markets, languages etc. Do they delay with payments, ot not?

Most of them have nice affiliate programs. Which one is the best for Niche or International markets?

Let’s help each other. Fighting like kilkenny cats is not very clever. Please add nice comments only.

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