Quote Originally Posted by pocoloco78 View Post
Do you know their traffic sources ?
Any affiliate program knows how they are being promoted, i know i check my referral logs at least once a month, sometimes more on Condom Cash, that way i know which affiliates to terminate if they are promoting us on sites with 'questionable' content, if they are promoting us and breaking the TOS, etc etc.

Do you exactly know how they promote your sites ?
Again, any program knows this, just by checking referral logs in addition to referring stats from CCBill.

Do you know what future plans they might have ?
Future plans mean very little to anyone except the affiliate, if someone has been promoting a site for over 12 months and has only racked up 1 sale by using your FHGs, diluting your free content, etc, then that affiliate is more of a problem to a program than a benefit.

As Brian keeps mentioning, affiliates really do feel like they are doing programs a favor by promoting them, based on stats that i can see as a program owner, there are very few affiliates of the total amount that join a program that are of benefit, what i also find interesting is that out of all of the replies so far, the only ones that seem to dislike this 'invite only' scenario are affiliates, whilst those who are in agreement with the concept are program owners, that speaks volumes.

Ultimately, if a program cant remain profitable, it will close down, by narrowing down those unproductive affiliates Brian is ensuring the long term success of his site, and as he also mentioned, allowing him and his team to put much more effort in to producing content and assisting those affiliates that remain with the program in a much more intensive, personal fashion, thus building the working relations between the program and the affiliate and ultimately building up program loyalty which is hat this discussion ultimately comes down to, for both the program owner and the affiliates.

Regards,

Lee