As an affiliate marketer, you want to pick out products that are going to sell well. Sometimes this is easy to do but still presents us with another problem. While the product itself might be a great one, the sales page could end up limiting the number of sales that we make. In this article, I’m going to point out just a few sales page pitfalls that you need to be aware of when choosing an affiliate product to promote.

At the very top of my list is outbound links. I absolutely can’t stand it when I see a sales page that has links going to everything and anything. The worst offender of these links is the affiliates link. This is where people can click to sign up to promote the product themselves. With Clickbank products especially, this is a real nightmare as Clickbank allows you to buy a product using your own nickname. Now, having said this, if you’re promoting a product outside of the “make money” niche, this isn’t as big a problem. People looking for acne cures are -probably not interested in becoming affiliates. Still, outbound links on a sales page don’t help conversion at all.

Another big problem with sales pages is the look, especially if the copywriter uses graphical headers. Some of these just flat out look cheesy as heck. Personally, I don’t want to promote a product with a header that looks like it was created at scam central. I want a sales page that looks professional. Now obviously, this is all a matter of opinion as far as what looks “professional.” But please, use a little common sense. If a sales page looks like a 5th grader put it together, you probably don’t want to be promoting it.

Finally, there is all that legal stuff. You know what I’m talking about. The disclaimers. You have to be really careful about promoting some products if they DON’T have disclaimers…especially in the health niche. If somebody is selling some cure for who knows what, makes no disclaimer on the cure and starts getting complaints, the affiliate who sold the product could end up in hot water as well. I tend to stay away from health products that don’t have proper disclaimers on the page.

These are just a few of the things, as an affiliate marketer, that you’ll probably want to stay away from when picking a product to promote.

To YOUR Success,

Steven Wagenheim

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