How to know if the offer/advertiser is trustworthy...? (5)
Hi guys,
I believe many of you already have a black list of offers/advertisers who scrubs like crazy...
How do you guys raise an eyebrow or flag on them?
For example:
*this particular offer has tracking problem... does not counts all conversion...
*this particular offer's server can't handle millions of traffic so their site goes down and my traffic goes to waste..
*this particular offer is doing some nasty stuff... and I should stay away from them...
As far as my own... I still look at the offer landing page if it really looks nice... and if it has a pagerank and if it has a good alexa rank... (I know my method is a bit far out from AM...)
I came from IM... so alexa/pagerank/SERPs matters to me... especially when I buy an expensive domain... this of course may not apply to affiliate marketing... that is why I am asking in general... how do you guys find a good offer to promote and focus all your energy into...
this just happened to me:
I found a good looking offer... and I went to work... (it was a non-english offer..) so I went to do translation and paid a few and also banner designs... it took around 3days to prep everything... (the back and forth email exchange with translator and designer)
but when I was about to promote it... I got an email that the advertiser is about to pause the offer... so yeah... I spent around $50 (I know not much)... but still the time/effort spent on it... went all to waste... I had to find another offer... but the replacement offer was a pretty bad offer... and ended up losing more... ended up stopping the campaign...
Honestly, I just test offers.
If an offer sucks, it doesn't matter if it sucks because it's scrubbing like a CDC shower, or just because its funnel is beyond terrible. I'm still not making any cash 
Yep just test and move on. You can't control any of that. Best bet is have a good affiliate manager that will tell you how things are honestly.
You need to relax brother...
give it some small budget, and try.
Check ROI.
Decide what next.
Don't bother with contracts, verifications, bullshits...
just find an offer you like from the traffic standpoint -- and give it a go. IMO
Like everyone is saying it's part of the biz.
IF you want to minimize risk, from experience the easiest thing to do is ask your AM how long the offer has been alive and active for. Then only test offers that have been running smooth for 3+ months
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