Tips for Choose an Affiliate Program
Monday, July 26, 2004 - 12:45

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1: - First rule (for that and all in your life) use the Common Sense.

Why? Common Sense is very useful for all life matters . Imagine that you have a specialist site talking about flowers.

The Common Sense must tell you than Flowers Merchants are the most appropriated to selling your banners. But also, Common Sense will ask for some important questions: People visiting a flowers specialist site need to buy flowers? They really need to know where to buy? . The answer to this question is very important for your success. Probably you need to put the flowers merchant links at one section, but the banners will better work selling cars, loans, dates or any other general matter.

2. -Read carefully the Webmaster's Rights Declaration.

Why? : We try to summarize there all items you need for your protection. Actually no one Affiliate Program reach to be perfect, but you must try to find as near perfection as possible.

3. - Never sign up a Third Party Affiliate Program.

Why? : Is proved that Third Party Affiliate Programs gives at least 10 times less of income than same programs outside this management sites. We have tested Commission Junction, Link share (testes already running) and this parameter is confirmed. Also in a Third Party System you get to contact with your real Partner. Communication with your Partner is very important for new initiatives and specially if problems arrive.

4. - Search at www.Google.com for cheats and frauds of the candidates.

Why?: If other people had been cheated you would have known. Use Google like that:

Site name +cheat
Site name +affiliate +program or +Partner +program
Site name +fraud

Another good point is to know how people manage the site.
Banners and links of people spamming or scamming will give a bad reputation to your site. Use at Google:

Site name +spam
Site name +scam

As site name writes the name of the site you want to sign up (ex: www.people.com)

5. - Never accept a program of a site related more than 100.000 in www.alexa.com.

Why? In Alexa, high numbers refer to sites with less traffic. For example, Yahoo is 1 (the best for Alexa tools); our poor site is 334.477 (more than three hundred thousands times less than Yahoo). Very new sites (or sites with little traffic) give better business, but are very risky in payment. Still having a lot of people trying to start an Internet Business in an ingenuous way, promising a lot of things and with no money and no team to reach their own objectives.

6. - Look also in www.alexa.com all reviews

Why? :Alexa is a site for webmasters . Many of the reviews are made by webmasters and refer to the Affiliate Program of the site.

7. - Choose an Independent site. That means that´s a site that is selling its own products and services:

Why? : Number of Killer Sites , sites for re sell products and services of other sites, is growing fast. The Affiliate Programs of reseller sites are most a Cheat or they will pay you only a part of original site revenue. If it is a reseller site go to the source and sign there. After that, come back to the reseller and study how they do. it is good for learning as always...

8. -Contact affiliate team before to signing up.

Why?: If they don't answer you before you sign in, be sure they never will answer you for a problem...

9. - Check carefully the stats system.

Why?: Depending on how nervous you are, some Affiliate Program Stats can give you a big stress. Try to Choose an Affiliate Program with Online Stats.

10. - Never buy a book of Internet Secrets.

Why?: Usually are a cheat . If not exactly a cheat, they describe old anddated process and strategies that no work loger. Use your Common Sense, right?

11. - Check if the links you put in your site works properly and tell some friends to do the same.

Why? An error on the link can give your sales to other affiliate. Verify clicks and sales are reflected in your stats.

12. - Check possible site dysfunction.

Why? : Why? Many powerful sites have poor servers and are usually down when traffic is very high (specially at weekends).
In this case you will loose all. www.InternetSeer.com can help you a lot on that. Link the site at Internet Seer to your e-mail and you will know when the site is down.

13. - Act as a potential buyer.

Why? : Evaluate if sales work properly at site you are signing in. Evaluate if it´s easy to buy, how many credit cards are accepted, weather links to credit cards payment are safe… If you need to choose among several Affiliate Programs this matter can give you the correct final decision.

14. -If you need more help, feel free to e-mail us intercheat@yahoo.com

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