Disadvantages to Flat Fee Affiliate Programs

If you are an affiliate who owns your own site and you participate in flat fee referral programs or you are considering participating in a flat fee referral program you should know that there are specific disadvantages.

The key to succeeding with a flat fee affiliate program is to try and increase traffic to your site as much as possible. Some affiliate programs owned by merchants will state that wants that user visits the site owned by the merchant, he or she belongs to that specific merchant. That means that even if a visitor made a purchase at the affiliate provider site by clicking on a link from your site, if that person was a customer of the merchant any time in the past you will not be paid (no matter how that visitor arrived at the site).

This is a clause that has been added too many agreements for affiliates because a lot of merchants can justify offering programs for affiliates only as a means of getting new and unique customers. This means that they cannot afford to pay to have existing customers returning to their site. In other words if somebody has already signed up through the link on your site you cannot make money off that person again.

This clause is a specially the case with merchants site owners already offer prices that are discounted further products or their services. Some merchants may even lose money on certain affiliate transactions and expect to break even only when that does your returns later to purchase something. The bottom line is that you should make sure and read all the small print on any affiliate agreement that you sign up for. For some programs that you sign up for in as an affiliate you'll need to keep new visitors returning to keep making money.

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