You take the time to research and write your posts. Because it is important to have the right mix of affiliates on your website. Then you take allot of time finding the companies who carry products you want to promote.

You may start out using Share-a-Sale, Commission Junction, or Kontera/Linkshare or Clickbank and get approvals to become a member with them. But then the work begins. You have to get into their marketers, their list of companies and request approval to become an affiliate of that company. This will become a business relationship and they want to see you do well so that you can successfully promote their products.

Here was a message I received from one of my affiliates that raised the red flag regarding how I had placed my "Affiliate Disclosure" into my website.

I did have my disclosure in my site, in the footer. Apparently it was inconspicuous which did not meet the FTC laws on this requirement.

What did I do? I very much wanted this company to be one of my affiliates, so I honed in on the FTC requirements so I could better understand them. And I looked closely at this company's recommendations for improving the availability of the FTC 'advertising disclosure' statement. They are provided for your review in this snippet.

I rather like the suggestion to have one on each of the blog posts because if we are being real about this, there is a strong likelihood that a consumer may not click to read the Affiliate Disclosure statement like how I have put it into my Home page menu. While this will take time I think it will be a 'best practice' to insert a statement into each post similar to what is recommended above.

What else would be a 'best practice'? Look at the next page of this tutorial to find out.