Google AdSense and the Google Affiliate Program as hard as it can be to understand at least gives the time to learn and know more about the program unlike many advertising and affiliate programs.
Today I got an email from Clicksor and have also gotten similar emails from other affiliate programs such as commission junction that I failed to meet the minimum pay-out level within 6 months of joining. These types of programs take much time and energy to learn about and then there is also the problem of integrating the programs into your website.
By the time you have mastered some of the skills required to earn money with an affiliate program like the one’s mentioned above they close your account. Think about how much money these affiliate programs make from dormant accounts.
But AdSense and amazon are no angels either there are millions of bloggers that started accounts with Google and amazon but never made of have a chance of making the minimum pay-out level for AdSense or amazon. Although if you think you are never going to reach the minimum pay-out for AdSense which is $100 and €70 in the euro-zone just two examples as the minimum pay-out varies from country to country with AdSense, You can however close your AdSense account if you have reached an AdSense balance of US$10 but it is not advisable.
Amazon on the other hand which is a very difficult program to master will not pay you until you reach US$100. A near impossible task for most bloggers as visitors to Amazon.com who are in another country for example would be redirected to there local amazon website and the blogger will be paid no commissions for any purchases made by the visitor. If you are a wordpress blogger you can however use the amazon redirect plug-in so this does not happen.
Affiliate programs are easy to join but hard to master.Think about how long it took you to earn your first $1 with AdSense of the Amazon Affiliate program and read the TOS of any affiliate programs you are going to join before you find out you have put months of work into affiliate programs that have very low conversion rates and commissions then blame you for not earning enough for them.