I have not been blogging much about the type of money I make affiliate marketing but today I would like to talk about one of my campaigns that was brining in over $1100 a day at its peak with Azoogle.
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The reason I want to talk about it is that I recently got a call from my AM warning me about the quality of my leads and he asked me to try and improve them. I started changing the way I was promoting the offer in effort to increase quality but the next day he called me again telling me they got another complaint and we should put a stop to the campaign. Dang… That’s a tuff blow to swallow… Kiss goodbye to my top performing campaign.

So what do you do as an affiliate marketer when the merchant does not like your leads?

White Hat:

  1. Ask for a pay decrease: If your ROI is strong enough to justify a lower CPA then ask the affiliate network if the merchant will accept the leads for a lower payout.
  2. Ask for a daily Lead Cap: Tell your AM that you will work on getting better quality leads and see if he will allow you to send a small amount of traffic each day until they can determine if your lead quality is in fact improving.

Gray Hat:

  1. See if your offer is on any other networks and try promoting it through them. If they have less strick guidelines on quality control they may accept your leads.

Black Hat:

  1. Lead Laundering: Illeat recently wrote a post about getting the merchant to accept your massive amount of crummy leads by mixing in only a few quality leads. If you feel like being evil then check out his article

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If you advertise on Facebook then it will probably only be a matter of time before you get some complaints about lead quality, because lets face it… depending what your promote Facebook traffic can be kind of crummy on the merchants end. If this ever occurs then these are some things you can consider trying instead of ditching the entire campaign.