Affiliate Programs Affiliate?

[David Robinson]

As very much a newbie at this, can i ask about the groud rules if i want to make my sight an affiliate. Is it possible for a site, which is undeveloped, just on a holding page, but receiving lots of traffic because of its name, to be automatically re-directed to a target site (after approval). Would it then be the affiliate of that site and come under the same rules?
If this is not possible, how far would a site need to be developed in order to have a link to the target site and receive approval to be an affiliate? I already have some sites parked before selling but to little effect as far as any income goes. Emailed one website construction company who did not answer my question at all although i said that i might need to employ them!
Thanks to anyone who can enlighten me.

David.

 

[DeCal]

You shouldn't have a problem doing this. I know many people that do it.

The way i would do it would be to put a single page up with a little information about the market/product. Then apply for the affiliate program. Once approaved, either leave the page up or redirect the page to the affiliate program while you develope the site.

In my experience, this will be fine for affiliate programs that work on a CPA / CPS basis. However, if its a Cost Per Click basis affiliate program then you may need to ask them first.

Just my 2 cents.

Dean

As very much a newbie at this, can i ask about the groud rules if i want to make my sight an affiliate. Is it possible for a site, which is undeveloped, just on a holding page, but receiving lots of traffic because of its name, to be automatically re-directed to a target site (after approval). Would it then be the affiliate of that site and come under the same rules?
If this is not possible, how far would a site need to be developed in order to have a link to the target site and receive approval to be an affiliate? I already have some sites parked before selling but to little effect as far as any income goes. Emailed one website construction company who did not answer my question at all although i said that i might need to employ them!
Thanks to anyone who can enlighten me.

David.

 

[David Robinson]

Thanks for the information Dean.

You shouldn't have a problem doing this. I know many people that do it.

The way i would do it would be to put a single page up with a little information about the market/product. Then apply for the affiliate program. Once approaved, either leave the page up or redirect the page to the affiliate program while you develope the site.

In my experience, this will be fine for affiliate programs that work on a CPA / CPS basis. However, if its a Cost Per Click basis affiliate program then you may need to ask them first.

Just my 2 cents.

Dean

 

[5starAffiliates]

HI David,

This is a common practice however you need to ask the merchant before you re-direct because sometimes affiliate sites that do this end up replacing the merchant's links in Google and sometimes Google gives a duplicate site penalty, just depending on how you re-direct.


Also if you are just re-directing you are not building up any name recognition, repeat traffic or bookmarked traffic. BEST OPTION - Create at least one page of content (for spider food) and optimize for search engines. Add text links and a banner for color. That way if you get indexed you can continue to build up the traffic and maybe even decide to add more pages and relevant affiliate links to the site.

Hope this helps and best of luck!

 

[David Robinson]

Hi

Thanks for the information.

David.

HI David,

This is a common practice however you need to ask the merchant before you re-direct because sometimes affiliate sites that do this end up replacing the merchant's links in Google and sometimes Google gives a duplicate site penalty, just depending on how you re-direct.


Also if you are just re-directing you are not building up any name recognition, repeat traffic or bookmarked traffic. BEST OPTION - Create at least one page of content (for spider food) and optimize for search engines. Add text links and a banner for color. That way if you get indexed you can continue to build up the traffic and maybe even decide to add more pages and relevant affiliate links to the site.

Hope this helps and best of luck!