Affiliate Marketing Rules

Affiliate Marketing Rules

So you have been wanting to get into affiliate marketing, and want to know the rules. 

You have your website and or blog all set up and ready to go. You have chosen your 

niche and market that you want to promote and make money off of. You just need 

links to start making money. 

Promoting other’s services and products is not 

something that is difficult to do. However, you will find that with all of the many 

companies that offer affiliate programs, and referral options, they all have their 

own rules that you must follow. 

Affiliate marketing is pretty easy to follow, that is unless you have many different 

programs that you are a part of. When you start getting so many that you cannot 

remember the rules, or the guidelines that you have to follow, you might have 

a problem. 

This is because the rules for affiliate programs are as different as the companies. 

Each company is allowed to make their own rules. However, you might see many 

similarities. That does not mean that they are copying one another, or cloning 

their affiliate program so to speak, but yet it means that they have the same rules.

Affiliate marketing rules can be so very different. They can range from not 

mentioning the brand names that they sell anywhere on your website, to not 

have that particular market in your website URL. Because they are so different 

for each program and company that you promote, you are going to have to be sure 

that you read each one well and make sure that you understand it fully. 

If you all ready have your URL for your website, you may not be able to participate 

in some of the affiliate programs. This is because you will not meet the requirements 

for the rules.

Another rule that you are going to see often when you are into affiliate marketing 

is the page rank rule. Some of the companies that will allow you to promote their 

services or products will not want you to have a higher page rank than they do. 

Nor will they allow you to have a website that is higher in the search engine rankings. 

For example, if you were promoting coffee, and you wanted to become an affiliate 

for Folgers coffee. Your website would not be able to come up above the official 

Folgers coffee website in the search engine results when coffee, or Folgers coffee 

is used as the search term. 

The companies that have this rule in place for their affiliate marketing programs feel  

as if your website were higher than theirs for the product that they are selling, that it 

would hurt their business tremendously. And, it just might. They would rather have 

the straight sales any day, than the commissioned sales. Who wouldn’t?

Keeping a spreadsheet of the affiliate marketing programs that you are a part of and 

their rules is a great idea. This way you are never confused and know just where you 

need to stand to be a part of that program. 

This is the best thing that you can do for 

your affiliate marketing business. Not only that, you will also find that some of the 

sites that have broken rules and have been caught have resulted in law suits. 

Cover your tracks and make sure that you are following the rules that are set by 

that company for the best results.

You will also find that there is a thing that is called affiliate marketing software. 

If you can find a program that fits your needs and will help you keep everything 

straight, you may not have to worry about keeping track of them yourself. 

Use your software to keep track and make sure that you are doing your affiliate 

marketing the right way. Your efforts will pay off eventually, and you will be glad 

that you went by the book and followed the necessary affiliate marketing rules.