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I am working on a new affiliate site and recently applied to a large number of affiliate programs.
Soon after, I began receiving e-mails to confirm my application from all, and welcome e-mails from some. Days passed, and I was surprised that a lot of the affiliate programs hadn’t reviewed the applications, yet.
Well, not so surprised. Plenty of affiliate managers take weeks or months to approve or deny affiliate applications, but I wasn’t seeing anything from upwards of 75% of them.
Then I took a look at my Spam folder in Outlook. What do you know - these welcome e-mails were sent after all, but they were classified as Spam by Outlook.
Word to the wise - test your e-mails through filters in AOL, Gmail, Hotmail, Outlook, Spam Assassin, etc.
You may well have bunches of affiliates that want to promote you and don’t realize they were approved.
10 responses so far ↓
1 Victor Caballero // Nov 29, 2007 at 1:35 pm
It’s amazing I still have pending applications on CJ that have been there for over 6 months. I even tried sending an email and no response.
In terms of the spam, I see it all the time. The networks should have an option to spam test emails sent out by managers. I don’t think that exists that I am aware of on the affiliate networks.
2 Matt // Nov 29, 2007 at 3:15 pm
Shawn,
I’ve been attempting to contact you through various channels. Long story short, I am unable to reach you. Will you please attempt to contact me via email. I would like to discuss an affiliate proposal.
Thank you for your time,
Matt
3 Shawn Collins // Nov 29, 2007 at 3:28 pm
Matt -
I e-mailed a reply to you three weeks ago.
All of my contact info is at http://blog.affiliatetip.com/contact-shawn/
4 Matt // Nov 29, 2007 at 3:39 pm
Right, I remember, however, I have been attempting to go through those channels only to be promted for a username and password from http://www.freedback .com
I can’t find a username and pass. that works. The username and pass. I use for some of your sites doesn’t work, and I am kicked out of your Web site.
Matt
5 Shawn Collins // Nov 29, 2007 at 3:52 pm
Are you talking about the CAPTCHA code that has to be entered into the form?
I just tested it from browsers without a problem, and I get a number of messages through that form each day.
6 Matt // Nov 29, 2007 at 3:54 pm
No, I wish I could send you a screenshot, but it’s a login box that pops up, asking for a domain name and password. After three attempts at gaining access, I am taken to a ‘authorization failed’ page, or something like that.
7 Jason Forthofer // Nov 29, 2007 at 8:47 pm
Shawn,
If we find that CJ did send the application acceptance email, but it is being marked as spam, what options do we have? Aren’t we at the mercy of CJ’s email from address?
8 Shawn Collins // Nov 29, 2007 at 9:24 pm
Hi Jason -
I would guess (hope) that CJ is getting high deliverability for email through their system.
My suspicion was that the content was triggering the filter. Though I may be wrong.
9 Dave Oliver // Dec 1, 2007 at 9:16 pm
I’m a bit late on commenting on this topic, but Palmer Marketing has a nice blog post on improving email delivery: http://www.palmerwebmarketing.com/blog/17-email-deliverability-tips
Interesting that in point 11 the author’s opinion is that “Spam” words don’t really matter much.
10 Shawn Collins // Apr 30, 2008 at 5:12 pm
Matt -
I finally applied to your affiliate program today - nice, quick turnaround on the application review.
Can I bid on the terms “AIG” and “AIG Travel Guard” in Google?
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