Affiliate Programs to Avoid

Rosalind Gardner | Affiliate Marketer

by Rosalind Gardner

As an affiliate marketer of Internet dating services, I’m always on the lookout for good quality dating sites and products to offer my single visitors. Merchants help me out when they let me know about their new products and affiliate programs.

I was therefore thrilled when one of my friendly affiliate competitors got in touch to tell me that he’d started his own Internet dating service and affiliate program.

Having launched a community membership site myself last year, I could fully appreciate the huge amount of time and money my friend had invested to develop this new site. He was justifiably proud of his accomplishment and I was excited by the prospect of having a product to promote that would benefit everyone – my customers, my friend and myself.

Unfortunately, it didn’t quite work out that way.

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Affiliate Programs: NO More ‘Leaky’ Links!

Rosalind Gardner | Affiliate Marketer

by Rosalind Gardner

One of the rules of affiliate marketing, is to partner with merchants that don’t have too many external links on their sites. This is especially true if you pay to advertise your site.

You might just as well burn your money as send it to sites that steal your traffic.

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