This may come off more as a rant than an actual informative article, but I feel the purpose remains the same and that the information is valid for all affiliates. What annoys me the most, more than anything, EVER, is when affiliate networks give their affiliates the shaft for no good reason. Without naming any names (as there is still time for retribution on the networks end), I am owed nearly $4,000 in commission that is being withheld because the ads were ran on a site that I hadn’t listed in my application.
Uhh…. what? If I had to tell every affiliate network each and every site that I owned my application would be 10 pages long. What’s sick is that there are affiliates with ten times as many sites as I have, yet you don’t see them listing off all of their websites in the application, do you? No, because there are many ways to promote a product and SEM is simply one of them.
Take zip-submits or mobile offers, for example. I probably have 30 different landing pages set up to capitalize on zip-submit traffic. Should I list all of those as well? I mean, I literally have thousands of web addresses for various websites and landing pages.
Anyways, coming back to the original topic, if affiliates can’t trust the networks that they run their ads from it has a very negative impact on the industry. The affiliate marketing industry is so new that it has not yet established itself. Tarnishing its reputation affects ALL affiliates, not just the individual affiliates or networks.
