Question for Affiliate program owners

[LandL]

Do you approve each and every person that signs up to your program or not? For example, say you get someone wanting to promote your site on something that has nothing to do with your niche? Do you email them?

What about people who join your affiliate program and give a free email adress (yahoo, hotmail, etc) as their email address. Do you still give them access to your promo content? Don't 'legit' TGP owners usually have a email address from their domain name that they use?

Thanks.

[nyllover]

Approval is automatic for us. We actually had one or two surfers joining just to grab content but... if we put it there is because we want that content to spread so...

[cots]

Originally Posted by LandL

Do you approve each and every person that signs up to your program or not? For example, say you get someone wanting to promote your site on something that has nothing to do with your niche? Do you email them?

What about people who join your affiliate program and give a free email adress (yahoo, hotmail, etc) as their email address. Do you still give them access to your promo content? Don't 'legit' TGP owners usually have a email address from their domain name that they use?

Thanks.

I always vet the Url given with the sign up first. If there is a site there, and there is nothing illegal on view, I generally give them access.

In the past I have often found that quite a few affiliates have a lot more than one site/blog but for some strange reason they use an obscure one for the sign up.

If in doubt then email the affiliate. That's the best advice I can give

[Mefo]

We always do an auto approve but manually screen every signup. It's the best way to get going because most webmasters want to start directly promoting.

If they'd have to wait a few days you're missing out.

[js69]

What Geoff said.

[jscott]

I used to approve everyone and anyone, but nowdays I don't have sponsor program anymore, I don't like that style of work, I'll stick to affiliate marketing

[cots]

Originally Posted by jscott

I used to approve everyone and anyone, but nowdays I don't have sponsor program anymore, I don't like that style of work, I'll stick to affiliate marketing

Good plan!