For those of you who don’t know what a “Pot Hole” is, is a whole that appears in the road making it a bumpy ride for you if you are unfortuante enough to hit one.
I just found a few “Pot Holes” with regards to Affiliate Marketing that I suggest you check out, so that you are not travelling down the same road.
So just, what are these “Pot Holes” I am referring to you might be asking, simply these…..
As an Affiliate Marketer I promote other peoples products in the hope that people will purchase through my links and earn me a commission, much like being a commission only sales person. I don’t promote just anything, I promote products that I feel will be of benefit to you the reader. Over the past 12 months I’ve learnt one or two things that as an Affiliate Marketer I feel other Affiliate Marketers should be made aware of.
So below is a list of what Product Vendors get up to – some of them do it deliberately and some of them do because, well, they just like to tinker with things. But, no matter what their excuses are, they are in effect stealing from you when they do what they do. They are taking your traffic and not rewarding you for your promotional efforts.
Things to look out for.
1. The product vendor changes their payment processor. This one can be quite annoying. You find a product on Clickbank, you create your link and you promote that link. All of a sudden, sales for that particular product stop! hm, wondering why, you check out the order button and guess what, the product vendor is now using PayPal only to take the payments and your link is in effect now useless. Nice of the Product owner to let you know wasn’t it?
2. The product vendor just discontinues selling the product. If you are lucky, they will be polite enough to email you and let you know that the product has been discontinued. Most often though, they don’t bother, they just simply redirect your traffic to another page on another of their sites, that they have something completely different on, and not at all what your visitor was expecting.
3. The product vendor sells the site to someone else who then changes the affiliate system he or she is using causing you to again loose out on the possibility of earning and credit for the traffic you are sending to them via your affiliate links.
And those are just a few of the “Pot Holes” to try and steer clear of. There are lots more too. If you have lots of sites in different niches all promoting different products, then keeping track of all your affiliate links can be a nightmare. The easiest and quickest way to help you and save you from the daunting task of checking all the links on all your sites would be to use one central site with one simple script to control them all. That way, if any of the above happen you simply log into the one place and can instantly edit all your affiliate links.
What do I recommend you use to do this with. Affiliate Link Bomber this easy to use program is the Affiliate Marketers “Link Savior” whenever I find one of my affiliate links has been abused by a product vendor, I simply log into my admin panel of Affiliate Link Bomber and make the changes needed to send my traffic either to another product or to another page that I choose. I don’t have to manually go to each site and edit the links, this one script handles it all from one central point. http://www.janetsawyer.com/recommends/alb
