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Originally Posted by Tam
This is perhaps the one reason I wouldn't ever do manual approvals if I had my own program again - simply because I know myself if I am looking for content or a certain site I want to promote, I want to do it while I am there working on it, not 3-4 days later - by then I have filled the spot I was trying to fill.
HOWEVER - nothing says if you auto approve an account and you watch it, check it and all that, that you can't shut it down if you feel jumpy about it, of if you have questions, reach out to the affiliate.
I don't think anything less of a company that does the manual approval - but it does lessen the chances I am going to put links up -
One thing, a cheater is a cheater and they don't give a fuck whether they have to wait a day, a week or whatever time period they have to, if your pps or whatever is high enough, they will wait you out - so it REALLY, in my experience, isn't going to detour them just by making them wait - not that I've seen.
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I hate manual approve! Here is my reasoning. If I'm signing up to your program it's cause I found promo of your site and I thought it was hot. When I sign up I want to get promo right then and throw up links/promo. I don't want to wait 24 hours or ESP till Monday. That makes me think you make your paying members wait 24 hours or till Monday for support. If you can't reply to a email in 8 hours (people have to sleep) then you will have upset members.
Like others said just watch the signups from new affiliates like a hawk and refund or verify weird joins. I've also emailed affiliates and asked them where they are sending traffic from if the url isn't adult or they are sending weird traffic. It's easier to kill a fraud affiliate than to have to verify and make every potential affiliate wait.
I don't care about affiliates that don't send traffic after they join cause being in the biz for 12+ years I know there are tons of reasons why they haven't sent traffic.
That said I will sign up to certain programs where I have to be approved IF I know the program well and know they will OK me in a timely manner. Back in the day when everyone used ICQ I'd hit up the program on ICQ to let them know I joined to speed up the approval time.