I have a Goarticle which I've built up to ranking on page 1 (and even position 1) for a number of relevant keyword phrases. It's receiving up to 170 page views per day. My problem is I'm not getting any sales and conversions from the affiliate. So, I'm contemplating changing the affiliate links and about 20% of the related text to a different affiliate. Do I risk losing all my rankings by doing this? I also suspect that the affiliate I'm using now may be shaving clicks and/or sales. Besides having a relative buy through my site, how do I double check if the affiliate is cheating me? Thanks George
I don't know a lot about affiliate but it is always better to have all the traffic to land on your landing pare where you can see what all they are doing. If you directly send them to product site then you have very less control. Don't change all the text and link together. Rather take a safe approach, change the text first, this time make it generic so that in future you can again switch the link. After 2-3 weeks have your own landing page and change the link. I think this should work.
What payment method does the affiliate use? Try one on clickbank so you know you are being paid correctly.