Scam Alerts - Affiliates Posing as Merchants

There seems to be some affiliate who try to pass their site off as merchants. At such sites, they do have a product (perhaps a cheap e-book or report) to sell which qaulify them as merchants.

However, these sites make money strictly as affiliate site.

These sites are filled with affiliate links and Adsense and virtually no mention of their products except when you click on their "Affiliate Program" link.

Do not join such program as you will not get paid. WHY ?

Because they are just not selling "their product" but your affiliate links will drives traffic only to their homepage. When the traffic you send to their site do click on any of their affiliate links and buy, they get the commission. You get nothing !

Unless of course, the traffic you drive there happen to see the "Affiliate Program" link as well and buy that cheap e-book or report. Otherwsie, you are just sending free traffic for them to promote thier own affiliate links.

Why did these affiliate marketers do that ?

This is just a trick to give it more legitimacy and likelihood of higher rankings with Google.

Now you know that in some cases the “Affiliate Program” link is a scam.

Beware the scammers!

Don’t join their programs and warn other affiliates through forums and in your own blog.

Do not let such scammers damage the business of honest and serious marketers like us.

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