This is not about certifying casinos.
This is about affiliates saying to other affiliates that they find no fault with an affiliate program.
The advertising or forum fee or whatever has nothing to do with this.
This approval or certification or whatever word one will settle on will be done by affiliates for affiliates.
Some of the criteria that come to mind are:
affiliate friendly T&Cs ( AGD provides this service)
how easy is it to contact the program (responsiveness)
and?
I am looking for opinions and suggestions that help define what affiliates consider to be a good affiliate program.
Then this thing needs to be structured in a way where this approval/certification/whatever name is reviewed contantly.
Casino Jack had sone nice ideas here:
1. Agree to an arbitration by “someforumorothers.com” in regarding any disputes / disagreements. This is good for both parties as many times, these things do not need to go public and get solved faster, as neither party feels wrong by the other. Much more professional.
2. MIN hours available by phone, email, Instant messenger etc, and a MAX time to return a message, email etc.
3. A rating. I think can be something like this.
Program A is certified. That is day one, and you have a rating of 1500.
Every x days with no compliants, payments on time, responisviess ok ,etc etc you move up say 10 points a month. Everytime you havea band month you loose 5 points.
If you ignore arbitration requests, loose 500 points.
etc etc etc. This way, the plans are spot checked, rated fairly, and the longer you play nice, the better your score. And new guys like us, may hurt to start, as we have to pay dues, but over all, I think is fair. If you liek the concept above, I can elloborate.
4.”Aff choice awards”
Basically a place on the forum where a constant vote is going, and affiliates can vote for one program a month, and evry 3 or 4 months, all scores back to zero.