I normally don’t like giving lectures and scolding folks but recent discussions have made me realize that the subject of being a responsible affiliate marketer is an important one. Sure, we all want to be successful…but at what price? There are some things that affiliate marketers do that are just plain wrong no matter how you slice it. This article is going to go over a couple of those things and explain why they’re wrong. Hopefully, I’m preaching to the choir here. If not, please take what I’m about to say seriously.

At the top of the list, even though both these items are just as bad, is spamming. There are affiliate marketers out there who think that the only way they can make a lot of sales is by sending unsolicited emails or posting ads at forums where they’re not allowed to. This does two things. The first thing it does is it kills YOUR reputation as a marketer. Nobody likes a spammer. So if you think doing this is going to make you sales in the long run, think again. But more importantly, it ruins the name of the product creator too. His product ends up associated with spam tactics, and that’s just not fair to him.

Another big problem is cookie stuffing. This is the practice of stuffing a cookie on the visitor’s computer after he’s been to your site. This way, even if he doesn’t click on the link to the sales page you’re promoting, your cookie gets set on his computer and you’ll end up, in many cases, getting credit for a sale that you didn’t earn. This does two things as well. First, it hurts other affiliate marketers as they end up getting cheated out of sales that they should have earned. Secondly, it hurts the reputation of the product creator. When affiliates get ticked off because they didn’t earn a commission that they should have gotten, since they don’t know who the affiliate is who robbed them, they take it out on the product creator.

There are other things that affiliates do that just aren’t right. These two are at the top of my list. So please, if you’re going to do affiliate marketing, think about what you’re doing and if other affiliates and the product creator himself would appreciate your actions.

To YOUR Success,
Steven Wagenheim

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