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How To Recognize Affiliate Programs Designed To Cheat You Of Your Commissions!

It’s bad enough when someone unscrupulously cheats your of your rightful affiliate commission but what do you do when that someone happens to be the merchant whose product you are promoting and how can you tell which affiliate program/merchant is out to cheat you from the get go?

There are few things more annoying than those moments when you’ve put in a considerable amount of effort, sweat, mental anguish and pain in promoting an affiliate program product just to get cheated out of your hard-earned commission by of all things the affiliate program itself! Sure who doesn’t know that there are and will always be wily marketers ready to pounce on your affiliate Id and swap it with theirs if you haven’t disguised or cloaked it (and no this is not an article promoting affiliate cloaking software…all the ones I have ever bought never ever worked! If you truly want to mask your links for free go to tinyurl.com) But back to the problem on hand…getting conned by the affiliate program itself? OUCH! Now that’s a low blow indeed!

So let’s break it down and see how this can happen. Let me add here that just occasionally by the way, such scenarios are the results of a mistake, but more often than not it is done intentionally. The real kicker though is that those websites offering affiliate programs designed to enrich the merchant yet leave you, the affiliate, out in the cold are legally well within their rights; i.e., you can’t go blabbing to the web police crying foul play and expect any retribution or justice so the onus is on you to sniff out those sneaky merchants.

Case Of The 7-Day Affiliate Cookie Versus The 15-Day Free Trial!

Huh? A 7-Day cookie yet the merchant is offering a 15-day free trial! Can you see what’s wrong with this picture? But just in case you don’t, let me clarify things by explaining what cookies are. Simply put, a cookie is a harmless piece of computer code or script that captures harmless information (such as identifying a computer through current and subsequent visits, websites visited and date of visit). This is of importance to you because this is how a merchant can tell that a particular customer who purchased from them was referred by you, thus ensuring you get your commission. The importance of cookies does not stop there.

There’re cookies and there are cookies! Cookies are coded to expire after a set period of time. So if a merchant supplies you (the affiliate) with cookies programmed to expire after 120 days, this means that if one of your referrals makes a purchase anytime within those 120 days, you’ll get credited for that sale and get paid your commission. Remember, it generally takes at least several instances of exposure to a product before a person is ready to buy! So the longer lasting the cookie, the better…at least from your point of view as an affiliate.

Right, so let’s take a closer look at the merchant website that offered a 7-day cookie for its affiliate program yet at the same time offers its visitors a 15-day free trial period of the product. I’m sure you’ve caught on to the scam now…there’s no way that you are going to get any commission because by the time the prospective buyer (who originated from your website through your affiliate link) is ready to purchase once their 15-day free trial is up, the cookie encoded with your affiliate link would have already expired!

So what can you do in such a case? If you really like the product and feel quite strongly about promoting it, you could contact the merchant and inform them that you’d love to promote their product but you happened to notice that they also offered a co-existent 15-day free trial period. Politely point out to them that that 15-day free trial effectively nullifies any possibility of you being able to generate any commissions with a 7-day affiliate-link cookie in place. Then graciously ask if they could extend the cookie duration to a 30-day period which should at least make it possible for you to actually get awarded your rightful commissions.

Nine times out of ten the reply (if you get any at all) is going to be NO unless you are a heavy hitter with an impressive volume of traffic or an extensive subscriber list…and if you also have evidence to backup your claims of heavy-hitter stardom . If, however, you still get a negative response or no response at all then don’t waste any more time and simply move on and forget all about promoting that program, unless you are a natural born altruist (a selfless person dedicated to help others at no personal gain).

The Multi-Pay Option Game

This is another sneaky way in which you can be duped out of your rightful commissions, although this is not as deadly effective as the free-trial-period scam. Okay let’s consider a scenario in which you’re promoting an affiliate product listed at Click Bank (probably the largest online directory listing of digital marketing products available for affiliate promotion). A scenario such as this would have you send visitors from your site to the merchant’s website via a link encoded with your Click Bank affiliate Id (the Click Bank Id is part of the cookie encoded with your affiliate information enabling them to distinguish that it was indeed you who referred the purchaser.)

In an ideal situation, the prospect who you referred would then purchase the product and hey you just got commission! But what if the sneaky merchant gives that prospective buyer another payment option on their landing page, such as payment through PayPal? Your referral might decide hmmmm, lemme use the funds in my PayPal account instead…and just like that your commission is gone! As I pointed out earlier, this method does not cheat you out of your commissions as effectively as the free-trial one above, because in this case you have a 50/50 chance of getting your commission but in the other case you basically have none!

Savvy Affiliate Tips

By Ba Kiwanuka
Published: 11/15/2007
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Sport book affiliate program – Success from the word go

Sport book affiliate program are a perfect way that can help you generate substantial revenue every day. Considering the rise in demand for online sports betting today one can find innumerable number of sport book affiliate program on the web.

What exactly is sport book affiliate program?

Affiliate programs are an effective way that can help you generate a revenue from a website. In order to make money through affiliate programs all you need is a website to start with. If you have knowledge about designing a website then it is well and good. If you are new to this venture then you can undertake the service of a professional designer. Once you are done with the website you need to signup with affiliate programs.

Signing up for sport book affiliate program or tool is simple all you need is a website that can help you generate the revenue. If you are looking to make huge profits through affiliate programs you need to carefully design the logo or banner of the free program that you want to get affiliated with. The moment any visitor of your website happens to avail any services offered by the affiliated website you will earn a certain percentage of profit from the sale generated. For instance say the visitor of your website happens to purchase a service of $100 through your affiliate. You will be getting a certain percentage of $100 depending upon the affiliate website you signed up with.

Sport book affiliate program are free to join and you do not have to invest anything to signup with any affiliated website. All you need is high traffic to your website just to attract more visitors to the affiliated ads. . The more the visitors the more will be your chances to generate revenue through the sport book affiliate program.

Benered Fransisco is the writer of this article currently writing for casino affiliate programs and Poker affiliate program. Visit to day www.superiorshare.com and www.pokeraffiliateprogram.com or more information on the subject.

By Isabel Rodrigues
Published: 10/8/2006
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Online Affiliate program: Why Most People Fail In Affiliate Programs

This article reveals the major reasons why most people fail to get rich from promoting online affiliate program (best affiliate program, free affiliate program, affiliate marketing program, top affiliate program, free online affiliate program) and the little known but most profitable and powerful affiliate program on earth which generates $100,000 monthly for life.

Online Affiliate program: Why Most People Fail In Affiliate Programs

If you search the internet you’ll find millions of free and also paid online affiliate programs.

Most people have signed up in these online affiliate programs and tried to make money from them but failed miserably.

They don’t know why.

Are you one of them?

If yes, read on to find out how to locate the right top affiliate program and how to promote it to start making money.

All affiliate programs are not created equal.

Some will make you money if properly promoted and others will not, no matter what you do.

Why?

Below are some reasons why.

(1) The Right Affiliate Programs To Promote

Most people are under the mistaken notion that just because an affiliate program is free that they can promote it and get rich.

Nothing can be farther away from the truth.

The bitter reality is that if an affiliate program is free, then most likely thousands of people will want to sign up to promote it.

Since thousands of people are promoting it, competition will be stiff and so the likelihood of getting rich from it will be slim because there will be more people promoting it than people who wish to buy it.

When supply is greater than demand, profitability will nose dive.

This is economics 101.

So stay away from free online affiliate programs which hundreds of thousands of people are already promoting!

The best online affiliate program which will likely make you rich will be the one that very few people are promoting and which is in great demand. The demand MUST be greater than supply.

Most likely, such an affiliate program will not be offered free!

You will have to pay for it to promote it.

When people are required to pay to promote an affiliate program, then most people will not sign up for it, so only few people will promote it.

This will then guarantee that the demand for it will be greater than the number of people who promote it and this means that the profitability for it will skyrocket.

This is the kind of online affiliate program which can make you rich!

There are few people online who are getting rich from online affiliate marketing and this is one of their sacred hidden secrets of success!

(2) Build Landing Pages For Your Online Affiliate Programs

You must create a landing page at your website for any affiliate program which you desire to promote.

At the landing page, you will then include a short introduction of the affiliate program, preferably, your own personal experience of using the program or a short review.

Then at the bottom, include the link to the affiliate program website.

This affiliate program landing page must be optimized also.

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You may also add Google Adsense ads and other pay per click ads as well as Clickbank products on this page to monetize it.

This way, if your customer doesn’t click and go to the affiliate program, they may click on any of the pay per click ads such as Adsense or Clickbankbuddy or pay per click ad and you’ll make money.

If you don’t know how to monetize your website with Google Adsense, Clickbankbuddy ads and pay per click products and ads, please contact us for free help.

By having a landing page for your affiliate programs at your website, you have the advantage of not losing all the traffic you’ve built up if the affiliate program is stopped.

If the affiliate program which you’re promoting is discontinued, you may replace it with another similar affiliate program and continue generating income from it.

(3) Secret To Promote Your Online Affiliate Program

Online marketing has become more difficult than rocket science.

During the past couple of years, most affiliate marketing strategies which used to work 6 yrs ago don’t work anymore.

E-mail marketing has been dead for many years now.

And the ISPs have added salt to the injury by creating so many filters which filter away your e-mail offers and so they don’t reach their destinations.

Besides, most people don’t read their e-mails anymore.

Most people have been bombarded by thousands of spams and offers and they just don’t have time to read these offers anymore.

So e-mail marketing is completely dead.

Free For All, FFA promotion is dead too.

Banner advertising is dead too, unless you have thousands of dollars to promote it at highly trafficked sites.

Search engine marketing, SEM doesn’t work any more because the search engines are constantly changing their optimization rules.

It takes both Google and Yahoo several weeks to even index your page and include it in their system.

You may optimize your website properly and attain a top ten position in a few keywords.

But they never last long.

In a few months when they update their search ranking, all your positions may likely disappear and your traffic will be gone too.

You may try to promote through Google Adword campaign.

But the truth is that not all programs can succeed in getting traffic from Google Adword or any other pay per click advertising.

If you try to promote an online affiliate program, which hundreds of thousands of others are already promoting using Google Adword and pay per click advertising, you’ll end up squandering thousands of dollars! This has happened to many people already.

So stop squandering your money in pay per click advertising.
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You may also try to use article writing to promote your affiliate programs.

But very few people know the "SECRET" on how to write a highly optimized interesting article which will attain top ranking in the search engines and therefore produce traffic and sales for your online affiliate program.

To succeed in doing this, you must know how to optimize the article, it must be interesting and you must post it where many people will read it.

If you write and post an article but it can’t be found in the search engines when people search for the affiliate program which you’re promoting and if people are not reading it at the article directories where you posted it, you’ll not generate any traffic or sales!

This is what many people are doing and among the TOP reasons why they are not making any money in their online affiliate marketing.

(4) Traffic Is The Lifeblood Of Success In Online Affiliate Marketing Program

There are so many nave people who have spent tons of dollars buying internet marketing e-books, programs and videos from so called internet marketing gurus and as if that is not enough, they have been suckered into squandering thousands of dollars attending seminars organized by these so called gurus only to find out that what they are peddling are outdated and archaic internet marketing strategies which don’t work any more.

These suckers never to think about the truth.

The truth is that no right thinking businessman will sell a secret on how to generate thousands of traffic daily to you for $50, when he knows he can keep his secret, use them to promote hundreds of affiliate programs and make millions.

The real truth is that these so called gurus have no secret that really work. But what they have is a large e-mail list which they have built through e-zine and newsletter publishing for many years.

So they make their money by marketing their e-books and affiliate programs to these mailing lists.

If you have 50,000-100,000 e-mail lists which you have generated over 6 yrs, you’ll always manage to make a few thousands of dollars marketing any program to them especially if it is about internet marketing!

In conclusion, there are still a few online affiliate programs which are easy to market and generate obscene income and there are still many jealously guarded traffic generating secrets which work and which can explode your website traffic and sales and so make you rich instantly.

But they are not free. They will cost you some money.

If you’re ready to pay to sign up in any of these few online affiliate programs, and to get the powerful traffic generating secrets of millionaire webmasters, then you’re serious about getting rich from online affiliate programs.

May these insights about affiliate program, best affiliate program, free affiliate program, affiliate marketing program, top affiliate program, free online affiliate program, best free online affiliate program, online affiliate program, make money with affiliate program help you to attain success in your online business.

Thank you.

Ikey is the creator of ASA Elite $50,000 Online Affiliate program, the most powerful + profitable online affiliate program on earth. Generate $100,000 monthly without any hard work or large investment: http://mscsrrr.com/elite-affiliate-program.htm

By I-key Benney, CEO
Published: 4/10/2007
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