affiliate application

Run a Login-Based Affiliate Website? Provide Access to Get Approved

User-authenticated websites are commonplace these days. And many affiliates — from such power players as Bank of America and ShopDiscover to smaller websites — make their offers available only to registered users, putting most of the website behind the login form. And such strategy absolutely understandable. However, if you run […]

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Tips (for Social Media Affiliates) to Get Your Application Approved

Did you know that Facebook is headquartered in Kingston, Jamaica? Neither did I. But at the first glance the below affiliate application makes it appear just like this: While many affiliate managers and merchants/advertisers are still very cautions about affiliates who use social as their primary method of promotion (and

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Affiliate Managers, Beware of Impersonators!

Earlier this morning, as I was going through affiliate applications into one of our clients’ affiliate programs, this one really made me raise an eyebrow: I’ve known Anita Campbell for years, and have personally been active on her BizSugar.com website/aggregator. And what affiliate manager wouldn’t be happy should a resource

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Affiliates Do Not Always Read Program Policies Before Applying

Back in late 2009 I ran a poll which revealed that only 38% of affiliates, generally, pay good attention to affiliate program agreements before submitting their application (24% always, 14% often). Here’s that pie-chart: Based on the above data, I’ve been strongly recommending merchants to include a Summary of their

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10 Mistakes To Avoid If You Want Affiliate Application Approved

Over the past two weeks I have set-up and launched several new affiliate programs. They all outsourced their affiliate program management to us. So, now that they’re up, we have hundreds of new affiliate applications to review. Looking through some of the newer ones this morning, I couldn’t help but

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Analyze Affiliate Feedback (on ShareASale) to Prevent Affiliate Fraud

Affiliate fraud can take can take different forms. Most of them as well as the ways to prevent these from happening were discussed here. Today I’d like to draw affiliate program managers’ attention to one particular feature available to merchants on one particular network. I am a strong believer that

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Affiliate Application: Watch Out for These 10 Red Flags

A regular reader of my blog has emailed me: I am new to the title of “Affiliate Manager” and I’m having a hard time discerning what classifies an affiliate as a “good” or “bad” affiliate. Do you have a “list” of what to look for when it regards accepting/declining affiliate

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Most Top Google Affiliate Network Programs Work in Manual Mode

In the manner of my recent experiment with LinkShare premium advertisers, today I have conducted a similar test with the top affiliate programs on Google Affiliate Network. Having sorted advertisers by “Payout Rank”, I have applied to 100 4-bar ones (since each bar “represents one quarter of the advertisers payout

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