Earlier in my blog, I addressed some of the basic reasons why affiliates don’t get approved for affiliate programs – incomplete forms, missing information, and general lack of reading the affiliate application.

But what happens if you’re getting a big check every month, and you can’t seem to break in to a new advertiser – or a new affiliate marketing company. Here are some suggestions.

  • Don’t try to sell an affiliate marketing company on a non-existing website. Show them a website that’s finished, preferably one that has three of their competitors advertising on the front page.
  • If you aren’t building a whole website (lets say you want to create a landing page), read their terms carefully and check to see if they even like Search Marketing or allow bidding in search engines.  My suggestion here is usually to find someone else who will participate with you. 
  • If you aren’t making big bucks with the particular company, this could be why you can’t get approved. Try shifting some of your earnings around.  This may not mean building a whole new campaign, because many advertisers are on both LinkShare and Google, for example.  Reroute a link or two, and suddenly you’ve got some more earnings showing in LinkShare.  Now you’re more popular there. 
  • Take a look at your “target” markets.  Did you say you had a technology site and then applied to 5 home and garden affiliates? 
  • If you feel like you’d be better off, and it doesn’t violate the terms, open a new account for different websites.  This is mostly not applicable, except in cases where you own two totally different models of websites.  Also, might work for someone who wants to have an incentive site, but still run regular websites. WARNING – you’ll be spreading your earnings around, and the higher your earnings, the more appealing you look. 
  • Show all of your websites if you can. If you can’t, and you get denied, send the company the specific website that you plan to market. 
  • If you don’t have a website, and you’re denied, reach out and email the affiliate advertiser! Don’t be afraid to share your brilliant marketing plan with your advertiser. They’re certainly not going to steal your idea.  If they love it, they may let you in. 
  • Go to CJU or Link Share’s symposium. Do it. Network. Affiliate Marketers don’t bite. I swear. 

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