Originally Posted by
Tiki
My objection is to the affiliate companies (Flex Offers, etc) themselves more than the blogs that use them. They discriminate against smaller blogs who could probably get a few customers a month using sidebar ads and not manufactured posts and still maintain the integrity of the blog. It's not like they have to hire staff to manually pay the commissions, it can all be done automatically with tracking. Big blog sells 100 credit cards, gets $10,000 commission. Little blog sells 3 credit cards, gets $300 commission, what's the big deal? Anyway, I will not be clicking any affiliate credit card links until Flex Offers or whatever stop discriminating against small blogs and give everyone equal chance.
Discriminating is a very strong word. As they are businesses themselves I'm sure they want to maximize profit so definitely there is some objective that you as a small blog are not meeting and so that's why they're not giving you links. For example they might want to keep the brand (I have no idea at this I'm just saying). Or it could even be the banks saying that they don't want to give links out to small blogs, not the affiliate companies. Are you not going to apply for Chase cards now?
On second thought it could very well be the banks not allowing small blogs to have links. Like why there are very few chase aff links but discover will give links to everyone.