With our affiliate program started in 2003 and till now we had an open registration and we though this would benefit our affiliate community. By now, we have over 100 000 of affiliates registered but …90% of them just registered without any further actions, tried to sell for a month or simply uploaded the ready-made affiliate shop with the expectations it would start selling itself. Unfortunately, things are not that easy. Things need to be changed.
Having this in mind, we decided to take this step. During the next week we are going to cancel the open registration of affiliates, all the new affiliates who would like to register will be reviewed and only those people/companies having set websites and good website designs and ready to add something new to our system will be approved to register. Affiliate program will still remain free. Quality will be our main and the only principle.
After the test period and different types of updates inside the affiliate system we hope to built a strong affiliate community of those who are willing to sell our products and make it in professional manner.
Saying this all… let’s do it!
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August 7th, 2008 at 5:05 am
Is this why the MTS site seems to redirect to the template monster site ?
As anactive affiliate I like to check my stats and it seems that I am unable to do this now :S
August 7th, 2008 at 6:03 am
I am having the same problem with the MTS redirect to the TM site. This is extremely frustrating, as I just spent the past week trying to build a website design around the templates. Is this permanent? Is there a formal review process by which I can submit my newly revised website URL and be approved as a still-active affiliate?
I am not happy with this redirect or the lack of formal communication on these topics. This blog entry is the first I have heard about your restructuring. Your affiliates make you money, so why not treat them respectfully and communicate effectively with them?
September 3rd, 2008 at 7:54 pm
You will certainly succeed in growing the number of affiliates
October 2nd, 2008 at 2:06 am
This is more than disappointing.
I have known about and purchased templates both at Template Monster as well as some of their affiliates for years and finally decided to give my hosting website a facelift and in the process felt it was time that I put the time and effort into becoming an affiliate.
Well low and behold my application was rejected due to my sites pr rating. Well a PR1 isn’t so bad (Google can be fickel at times)
And a simple search finds dozens of template websites with PR0 and sometimes even Greybar ranking on the first coulple pages of serps, most of which are affiliates here.
I will be the first to admit my site that I included to be considered needs work, and I plan on doing that, but it is my hope that if/when prospective affiliates attempt to appeal the rejections that someone does site down and look over the facts, and not judge an affiliate’s application solely on PR.
I have years of experience in affiliate marketing (much more competitive market than this) so I completly understand the underlying reasoning behind some of these choices, but even inactive affiliates can be good for branding purposes, and if Template Monster suddenly lost a few hundred backlinks my guess is there own PR would drop dramaticly at next update.
Rick
Universal4
October 3rd, 2008 at 12:13 am
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