What Should You Do Once You Join a Safelist or a Traffic Exchange

Here is a quick and dirty scenario of what you should do whenever you join safelists and traffic exchanges.

  1. Profile. Update your profile, especially the email address for your payment processor so you can receive your commission payments.
  2. Site Ads. Look for a button labelled Sites or My Sites, and enter your affiliate links for other programs you are promoting.
  3. Banner Ads. Look for a button labelled Banners or My Banners, and enter your affiliate links for the programs you are promoting.
  4. Text Ads. Enter text ads for each of the programs you are promoting.
  5. Downline Builder. Review the programs listed on the Downline Builder page, and enter the user name/ID for each of the programs that you are already a member of.
    — DO NOT JOIN ALL OF THE PROGRAMS JUST BECAUSE THEY ARE THERE. 
    — ONLY join the ones you need or want to.
  6. List of program info.  I recommend that you maintain a list of key information for each of the programs you have joined, containing as a minimum:
    — The log in URL
    — User name
    — Password
    — Affiliate link
  7. Membership Programs. If you are also a member of programs like Downline Builder Elite and/or Affiliate Funnel, remember to update them with your affiliate ID/name for each new program you join.

Always click on your links to make sure that they go to the site you expect them to go to and that the correct banner displays.

Bad links = lost signups = lost commissions