Why I Don’t Use LinkShare Affiliate Network

I think many of us know that there is this affiliate network. This is not one of the popular affiliate network. In fact many brands are working local for US based citizens alone. And this makes you wonder if this affiliate network has any global reach. Though Rakuten being their own brand, they have affiliate system for the brand itself. But it can be troublesome to even use the linkshare in that context. I think linkshare can be surely worth the effort in case if you have got some serious traffic. For example, buy.com and rakuten has the deals that may interest people. And for this reason this can make some good option for monetization. So let me explain why I want to use linkshare affiliate network.

Udemy Affiliate

I joined as an affiliate of udemy. I found out that the affiliate network was good enough on most of the points. But promotion through linkshare is totally not worth it. The dashboard is one of the worst thing about the linkshare. But making links was good enough part. I also learn how to promote and how to get the links click properly registered. I think on that front I found out it was a good part being linkshare affiliate. But that being said, it was one of the horrible experience with the linkshare with such type of the dashboard. In such case I regret joining the udemy affiliate network.

Commission

Most of the merchants have the decent commissions and the cookie rate. But I didn’t find much of a good output with the linkshare affiliate network. You can find that some of the merchants in the network have really good rate. You have to understand that some of the affiliate options can be good enough. It just makes me wonder what can be done. You can see that 10-30% commission is not that bad. Also the amount of time it takes for you to reach that is pretty much good enough. I’d say the system is good enough for any one who is setup with any type of the affiliate website.

Lack of Conversion

You may notice that everything is good. But it has one issue. You have to find better merchants. For example nobody buys things from official store. Instead people buy things from the amazon and the ebay. So this is indeed turning out to be a good system only if the conversions are good. I personally don’t find the network that good. I know some affiliates make good money out of this. It just makes you wonder if the lack of conversion is good enough for most of the regular affiliates. Because with low conversion you are not going to maintain those sites. It just going to waste your money in the process.

So as you can see I prefer to not use thee linkshare anymore. Instead I may use the shareasale or amazon network for the promotion. You can also go for other affiliate networks but you may have to think of SEO and other affiliate systems there as well. That should give you some idea of the affiliate network.

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