Over the past few days I have reviewed over a hundred of affiliate applications into a program I manage, but 3 particularly stood out. One of them was from the UK, one from Serbia and one from Indonesia. These applications can be gathered into one group, because all three had one thing in common — [...]
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Nearly every day I get applications from affiliates that are either hoping to get approved by an inattentive affiliate program manager, or aren’t really thinking much about how their application looks to the manager. If you want your affiliate application declined, here’s a 3-step guide for you (satisfying any 1 of the 3 “requirements” will [...]
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Automatic Approval of Affiliate Applications (AAAA) is a mistake commonly spread among new and seasoned affiliate program managers alike. If automatic declines of affiliate applications can be destructive to the development of your affiliate program, automatic approvals may end up costing the merchant significantly more than an auto-declined application. The main reason for the danger [...]
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I’ve conducted an experiment whereby a newly opened affiliate account, which had one website listed, applied into 4 affiliate programs. All of these programs were in the niche absolutely unrelated to the niche that the affiliate website was listed in. The first three responses were: So, two pending applications, and one automatic approval. The response [...]
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When as a Commission Junction advertiser/merchant you get a “Publisher Country Change” notification (see example below) in your network mailbox, treat it as a red flag. In my experience, in the majority of cases it means nothing good. C’mon! How often do people change the country of their residence from USA to Kenya or China [...]
Yesterday I have mentioned how some advertisers/merchants choose to automatically decline affiliates that fit (or don’t) certain criteria. Today I have done some testing, and would like to illustrate what I mean. I started a brand new affiliate account with Commission Junction, placing my affiliate website into the “Marketing” category, and listing “Web site / [...]
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Here is a profile screenshot for an affiliate who has applied into one of the affiliate programs I know: This application got declined on the following 5 reasons. These are the things that are very frequently happening with affiliate applications, and I think it is important to devote my today’s post to it. If you [...]
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Just had a new publisher apply into one of the affiliate programs we manage on the Google Affiliate Network. The affiliate’s website opened just fine in my Internet Explorer, but Mozilla Firefox gave me a warning a part of which you are seeing above. Are you checking affiliate websites for malware prior to making your [...]
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In one of the newly launched affiliate programs (where specific types of affiliate promotion are explicitly prohibited in a short and easy-to-read program agreement), we have observed that over 38% of affiliates who apply into this program do not read that agreement. Yes, there is a mandatory requirement to agree to the terms and conditions [...]
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Lester B Pearson, a Canadian Prime Minister who is often acknowledged as the greatest Canadian of all times, said that “the chief distinction of a diplomat is that he can say no in such a way that it sounds like a yes.” This is exactly what affiliate program managers should learn to do when dealing [...]
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