Watch Out For Traffic Leaks

When promoting any affiliate program one thing that you, as an affiliate, has to watch out for is what is called traffic leaks. What is a traffic leak? A traffic leak is something on the merchants site that will cause the visitor, that you referred to their site, to get distracted and leave the merchant site, leaving you with no possibility of receiving any kind of commission.

Having traffic leaks does not mean the affiliate program is a scam or trying to cheat you. It is most likely that the merchant just doesn't realize what they are doing. If you are promoting an affiliate program that is not getting any sales for you, you may want to check for traffic leaks. If you find some then contact the merchant (in a professional manner) and ask if they would consider removing the traffic leaks from their site to increase conversion.

Here are a few examples of a traffic leak:

Advertisement Banners & Links
This is usually the most common traffic link. The merchant will put up a banner ad or two and some text links to "offset" their expenses. You do not want to promote an affiliate program that has this on their site. When you send a visitor to the site and they click the banner or text ad and go to the other site the merchant gets paid while you get zippo. Not to fair is it?

Order Phone Number
Another traffic leak is the toll free (or regular) phone number they put on their site to let customers call in their orders. But when customers do call in their orders you get stiffed on the commission. It is very easy to set up phone commission tracking. You should ask the merchant if they have any plans on setting up phone sale tracking. If they don't know how you can send them to me to show them how to do it.

Basically, you do not want anything on the merchants site that will drive your referred customer away to another site that you will not get a commission from.

Chet Brzezinski has been in the affiliate marketing and affiliate management industry since 1997. He owns two affiliate marketing related sites. One that offers affiliate program management & consulting services and the other affiliate program reviews, tips and resources.

---

Your Affiliate Business and Taxes

Starting a home-based business on the Internet is easy you... Read More

How to Evaluate an Affiliate Program

There are thousands of affiliate programs offering wide range of... Read More

How To Boost Your Affiliate Sales With Free Articles

Free Articles continue to be one of the most effectiveways... Read More

How to Grow an Affiliate Marketing Business

The biggest failure in affiliate marketing is not collecting prospects'... Read More

Affiliate Programs... Whos Really Making The Money?

There will be a million and one affiliates out there... Read More

The Key To High-Volume Web Sales

The quickest way to achieve high-volume sales on the web... Read More

What Is Affiliate Marketing?

Affiliate marketing refers to the promotion of products or services... Read More

Two Quick Ways to Make Your Copy of Merchants Data Feed Different From All Other Affiliates

Product data feeds are really popular among affiliates because they... Read More

Super Affiliate Strategies Part 2

If you are an affiliate that is trying to promote... Read More

Things To Test On Your Website To Increase Sales

The Internet is powerful selling tool. Never before has been... Read More

Affiliate Income Optimization

In my time researching the search engines, I've noticed something... Read More

Looking for Success as an Online Affiliate? Its All in the Numbers

If you have been a home based business entrepreneur for... Read More

Is It Possible To Make A Living Being An Affiliate Marketer?

It may sound cliché but it is worth repeating. Affiliate... Read More

Learn How to Improve the Performance of your AdSense Account - Some New Features

Google introduced some new features to AdSense account. When I... Read More

How to Choose a Reliable and Profitable Affiliate Program

There are literally thousands of affiliate programs on the Net.... Read More

Never Get Burnt by a Cycler Program Again!

A cycler or doubler that offers nothing of real value... Read More

Common Mistakes Made by Unsuccessful Affiliates

A vast majority of successful online entrepreneurs are affiliates of... Read More

Back-End Selling

If you ask me, residual (also known as passive income)... Read More

Higher Commission Is Not Always Better

I have seen it a million times, especially from newer... Read More

Affiliate Program Intro

What is an affiliate program? Everyone who surfs the web... Read More

The Key to a Successful Affiliate Program

Two Christmases ago I tugged on one of those paper... Read More

Joint Venture 101 - The Quickest Way To Build Your eBusiness - PART 1

This article reveal the same techniques that many Internet marketing... Read More

8 Ways To Increase Your Affiliate Commission

Here are 8 easy ways to boost your affiliate income:1)... Read More

Making Money with Affiliate Programs ? Part I

If you have a website and you are not involved... Read More

The 5 Sure-Fire Ways of Building Massive Traffic and Making Thousands in Affiliate Sales

Why are those top affiliates able to easily make so... Read More

Affiliate Web Site Pros, Cons and Getting Traffic

With the web these days growing at a substantial rate,... Read More

Three Easy Ways to Become a Super Affiliate and Earn Cash Quickly

If you want extra cash every month, you have to... Read More

Affiliate Product Landing Pages - Three Tactics That Sell

As competition within the online affiliate sales arena rises to... Read More

How To Win The Affiliate Game

Are you frustrated with your affiliate programs?I used to be.... Read More

Convert Your Passions Into Dollars

On Cyberspace (Internet), there is a method from which you... Read More

Is There Any Money On Over Saturated Markets?

Well that depends ultimately on you! Let me explain?I have... Read More

10 Sizzling Tips For Affiliates

1. Create an infopacked mini site. Build your mini site... Read More

Affiliate Marketing Or Market Your Own Products?

How should you organize your online business?Affiliate marketing seems to... Read More