Chicken or the Egg?
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You'll find a lot of affiliate programs want any websites that promote their products to add quality and value to their purchasers experience. Google itself has for a long time said the same. You can certainly write the review section on products without affiliating them at this stage and do so after your site is ranking and receiving traffic. :) Rich.
I do intend on promoting WA. I figure that will be the third or fourth promotion I start. I'm on my first - have my niche and a website well under way. Just trying to get by the current logjam and thinking ahead - which may be my ultimate problem.
Hey -- nice to see when people sign back into the program, it does seem to add to the validity of WA (if anyone needs more convincing).. You are already capable of promoting WA -- its a built in option you can sign people up to join -- and you are familiar with it already -- so I'd think you could do very good content on that -- and then that would be your stepping stone if you had some other program in mind to affiliate. You got to start somewhere I'm not sure whether it matters if you call it a chicken or an egg, just move forward -- and you have 75% of the other people beat already who do nothing.
I guess the question is ... how do you create the content, especially reviews that you want to link to an affiliate with, when you don't have an affiliate. And the affiliates want the website done before they approve you. Seems like a contradiction. On a side note: Can you use graphics of a product you want to review without permission?
Well, given what you just wrote, it seems reasonable that the first thing you would do-assuming the website is already there (and you said it is) is pull it offline temporarily and tweak it. Add a bit here, cut a bit there, you get the idea. If~after tweaking~nothing changes, THEN...*shrugs* I suggest going straight to K or C :)
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Somehow, I got Amazon to accept my empty site. I know this neither helps nor hinders the discussion either way, but it is true. I built the framework, titled the site christianbookshop.siterubix.com, and applied. I got approval later the same day.
This is why Amazon is often "first choice", they accept "barebones" sites, or used to, recent feedback from Members appears this is no longer the case. :) Rich.
Thanks Rich. It was 10 weeks ago I think.
I've only been hearing this very recently, it's anecdotal there might be other factors, ie. it may be "regional", ie. the .com vs. the .co.uk affiliates program. However, I have known Amazon revisit sites and "pull" approval afterwards. The vast majority of affiliate programs don't appear to accept "barebones" sites however. :) Rich.