Hi, I was looking in Clickbank marketplace to promote some products related to E-business. I found a product with quite good Gravity (>100) and when I went to the affiliate page of the vendor's website, it shows following message: "Our Affiliate Program has been closed temporarily." This message is live on this website from many days, I think more than 1 month. Should I consider promoting this product. Is there any problem promoting such product?
To be honest mate i don't think you would be able to promote this product and even if you could i would leave this alone. They are either not going to accept affiliates or they are upgrading so i would just wait and see what happens. Graham.
I can still promote the program as they are still live on Clickbank. And one thing I forgot to mention that on their affiliate page they have also mentioned that, Affiliate can use their standard clickbank hoplinks. . But I am not understanding that what's the point of saying that their affiliate program is temporarily closed.
Have you tried using a hoplink to see if it still works? - eg -have you followed it all the way to the purchase page?
Go ahead and promote the product. If your hop link is working fine and your Clickbank nickname is seen at the bottom of the order form, then you will get your commissions. Trust me. Some vendors are just lazy to update their sites with good content for affiliates. or maybe the vendor don't even know what is going on on his affiliate page. You can also contact the vendor and ask him what is up with his aff. page. He might go like: "thank you for informing me! I had completely forgot. I will try to fix it today!!!"
Clickbank vendors don't have the right not to accept affiliates. For a product to be sold there, there has to be an affiliate commission offered, and anyone can become an affiliate for it, with or without the vendor's permission, with or without the vendor's knowledge, with or without identifying themselves to the vendor, and with or without there being an "affiliate program": those are the terms of service. Nobody who doesn't want affiliates is going to put a product on Clickbank and pay their average 9% charges. That said, in this case trying to contact the vendor may be a very good suggestion, because you may learn something relevant, one way or another.
Too many double negatives and a run on sentence. I hope this isn't how you write. But anyway, she is right. You can promote the product if you want, but I don't think that is what you are asking in the first place. If I were you I would find a different product to promote.
I count only two double negatives and their use is both appropriate and necessary here. How would you alter Alexa's first or third sentences without changing their meaning or impact? If by "run on sentence" you are referring to the long sentence in the second paragraph: that is not a run-on sentence, as it is a single sentence which contains a list of non-requirements in an effective literary style. It is not two or more sentences run together because of lack of proper punctuation. (By the way, compound adjectives - such as "run-on" in this case - should be hyphenated.) I felt it necessary to make these points due the incorrect criticism of writing produced by someone who clearly offers a writing service, in addition to making a valuable contribution in this forum to the understanding of several issues concerning ClickBank. On-topic: personally, I would stay away from any offer which appears to be unstable. One of the vendors I'm signed up with on CJ is forever stopping and restarting. I don't feel it's worth my time and effort to promote it if it might not be there tomorrow. A CB vendor shouldn't be able to do the same, as Alexa says. Does the message refer to a non-CB (in-house) program, perhaps?
I notice a similar message when i click on the hoplink to one vendor's website. In my case, it's the membership for the forex program being closed.