Grand National Saturday was also a grand day for ShopCodes as visitors searched the site for their £10 free bets.

I didn’t promote the Grand National specifically as I’d left it a little late but that didn’t stop hundreds of visitors looking for a bookmakers offer in time for the big race.

My Coral page saw the most attention of all the sports betting pages I promote. Coral have lots of bonus codes for sports betting, casino and poker and I update their offers monthly.

The ShopCodes Coral page had 274 page views and at £5 commission and 2% revenue share, it looked to be a grand day.

From all those views though, only 3 sales were made generating £15 in commission.

Not a good conversion rate. I wonder how much more commission I’d have generated if I didn’t openly display the promotional code but enforced a click by using a ‘click for code’ button or used an iframe to the Coral site?

Coral have looked after me in the past though so I am not concerned that I only converted 1% of visitors.

The bookmakers rewarded me last year by sending me £200 in Thomas Cook travel vouchers which have no expiry date and I am still looking forward to use.