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

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?

As anactive affiliate I like to check my stats and it seems that I am unable to do this now :S