Quote Originally Posted by pocoloco78 View Post
And how are you planning to judge all your affiliates in this way ? Do you know their traffic sources ? Do you exactly know how they promote your sites ? Do you know what future plans they might have ?
PocoLoco Makes a valid point.... a lot of this sounds very arbitrary.
However there is nothing new about being selective in choosing affiliates. Many mainstream companies on Commission Junction will not accept you unless you have something they are specifically looking for. Affilaites and sponsors on Commission Junction are all rated by one, two, three or four stars... which you get based on sales producted over the past month.

So if I want to join eBay or Home Depot or Palm - I can see where they rate as far as producing sales in the system, vs. others. Vice versa, they can look at me as an affiliate to see where I stand with all the others in CJ.

When I just had one star, many affiliate programs rejected me, so I had to email them and ask again. I'm at the four star level, which really isn't all that difficult I think.... but most sponsots automatically accept you no questions because they can see a record of past performance.

And even then, there are sponsors I've signed up with because I wanted to,
but I haven't built many links to yet.

Steve