I'm not sure if it is a good idea to promote merchant's products whose landing pages have their own newletter sign up? I mean if im spending money on ppc to direct the user directly to their landing page which pops a newletter window, the user might just sign up with their newsletter and leave the page without buying. So as a result, i gave the advertiser a free email sign up but lost my ppc click money. I'm not sure if i should direct traffic to merchant's landing page?
you will still get credit for the sale if they come back to the site from a link in their newsletter. unless the vendor is being sneaky and sending subscibers to a clone site at a different url
if you are worried about it you can just subscribe.. but i doubt they would cheat affiliates like that
yeah thats true... if im going to be selling their product for them, the least they could do is give me the commission