[/caption]I've been a successful affiliate for more than 10 years. I've been promoting hundreds of advertisers through Commission Junction (CJ), Connect Commerce (Google Commerce), BeFree, Linkshare and other networks. The only fraud with affiliate networks having 100+ advertisers I had was with ShareASale (www.shareasale.com). As soon as I requested payment, they suspended my account.
I've tried to contact the ShareAsale (www.shareasale.com) support several times to no avail. They explained me that my web-site was using language other than English. My web-site was using several languages indeed, but all pages using ShareASale links were in English. ShareASale support didn't care about this fact.
My main income wasn't coming from ShareASale anyway due to the low quality of advertisers of the network. ShareASale has been using a small threshold which was attracting small companies. The latter companies often disappear from the network and are hardly worth advertising. Besides I managed to persuade all advertisers that I really needed to switch to other affiliate networks (CJ mainly).
Commission Junction (CJ) likes international advertisers and affiliates. It doesn't like scams, fake leads, ... but I've never been involved in anything like that, so I guess they have been happy to send me payment since 2001!
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[/caption]If you still plan to join ShareASale (www.shareasale.com) as an affiliate, make sure to read other users reporting suspended accounts for no reason.
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[/caption]And if you plan to join ShareASale as an advertiser, make sure to use other affiliate networks if you need affiliates promoting your offers in different languages. ShareASale still has a draconian policy about non-English content (See ShareASale affiliate agreement)Why would you need affiliates having pages in non-English? For example, ShareASale has several Chinese shops that ship worldwide; they could have much better promotion by allowing content in all possible languages. Or another example, some software vendors selling software worldwide use ShareASale; why wouldn't they want to promote their software on web-sites using German, Japanese, French, Spanish and other languages? Or imagine that you have a Canadian web-site that has content in both English and French; you will be able to use ShareASale links on the English part only, not on the French one. Or may be your web-site is translated automatically, but again you can use ShareASale links on English pages only.
Other affiliate networks just allow offers when affiliates are paid for sending customers from select countries. And it is understandable especially when advertisers pay for leads. It prevents cheating indeed.
Hope you will have better luck with ShareASale, if you eventually decide to join it.
Thanks for the info. Was going to join, not now I will just stick with Gan, and Cj they pay.....
ReplyDeletejust had the same thing happen to me with share a sale
ReplyDeleteLuckily there are plenty of affiliate networks and affiliate programs that pay. Hope you will find ones!
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