One of my affiliate program http://www.micronutra.com/ suddenly disappear, they have paid me every month over 2 years, but now their homepage is 'blanked' (for 9 days), they remove the contact information and no one reply my email. I still have few hundred inside, what should I do next? And I found out that most of the adwords are removed as well.
my niche is 'acid reflux', 'heartburn' now i place adsense instead of the affiliate product, earning drop from $30/day to $2.89 (yesterday)......
Just continue with Adsense till you find a better program. Affiliate programs do disappear and businesses closed especially if they aren't those biggies, but at least they paid you till the end. Good ethics, have seen a lot of those who close and just disappear with the money.
I don't think they've gone forever. I just think they're having some hosting issues. However, this's kinda bad practice for this type of company. I think they were doing not bad in volumes/profits with their products online. Let's just hope they come back. I'm not their current affiliate, but waiting to register with them.
Mate, I think I have to disappoint you now... Here're the lots of dirt I've found: http://www.justinbuist.org/blog/2007/04/17/techmedica-gotta-love-the-lies/ Pay attention to the last messages like this: I don't think they will come back quickly if at all.
I was actually over in Grand Rapids today...kinda scary... Best course of action is to look for a new affiliate program, contact some of the bigs ones, see if they have anything similar to your niche.
Considering such problems the OP is lucky to manage to get all his affiliate payments! BTW since Adsense is too low for the OP, why not try Amazon affiliates, I guess they wont close in such a way
The owners from Micronutra Health and its related company Techmedica has been sued for fraud by the FDA. Read this: http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/mow/news2008/thao.ind.htm I've been their affiliate for a long time too. As for commision payments don't count on receiving anything.
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