You can’t really ‘make’ people trust you. But you can be patient and LET people trust you. However with the website you have right now I doubt this can happen for a few key reasons:
The website has almost no images, mostly text and it’s not even telling me what I am promoting. Look around the top affiliate programs, and you would see they all have pretty similar websites. I will feel a lot more comfortable trusting something similar to what I already trust.
I can’t create a link before I sign up, and yet that’s the very first thing I see on the page. In my opinion a good affiliate program page has some all right logo of the brand, key features outlined nicely with pictures and everything, perhaps even screenshots at the backend and a login/register fields at the top.
Percentage doesn’t matter for me either, conversion is what counts. Can you convert traffic well and is your product worthy? Those are the questions you should be asking yourself. If the answer is ‘yes’ then trust will come as a result of it.
There’s no shortcut either, you have to have been around to gain speed. I doubt any affiliate program became big in a month or even in a year. A good way however to promote yourself will be sites like this one and other affiliate communities, where a lot of us are gathered and will see you banners.
Believe it or not an extremely modern and fancy website will at least make me, give you the benefit of the doubt. The rest will follow depending on the performance and the statistics. After all, every affiliate working with you will be asking ‘What’s in it for me?’ ‘Why should I drop brand X and promote your brand Y’ 50% commission on itself isn’t enough, in fact seems too high.
Have some sort of spacing and underlining in your footer. Right know I am just guessing which word has a link and which doesn’t as there’s no roll over effect nor any underlining. I am trying not to be too harsh here, but since you want honest opinions, which will most likely help you in a way, if you choose to listen, I’d tell u that bold text is not fun reading. In fact I was looking for a way to scan all of the information of the front page but I gave up. And I am one of the least picky people when it comes to design and information.
Lose the casual language as well. An affiliate can mostly likely talk like that, but I believe a serious affiliate program should stick with formal language nothing like “Need a custom landing page or banner or whatever?” “Email me (the owner)” etc.
Now while I am writing I keep on reading and now I am confused “is NOT a gambling website. We are fully compliant with United States and State of Nevada laws. No gambling takes place on our website and we do not endorse gambling in any way, whether legal or illegal. The “Sportsbook” page you see on our site is a fantasy sportsbook where everything being “wagered” is play money”
Again… what are we promoting here and if it’s not a gambling website, what’s our gambling traffic good for? In fact why would be this thread in the gambling section?
And last but not least, PAYPAL payment? Come on they are famous for not liking any sort of payments from or towards people that have anything to do with gambling, it doesn’t matter if they comply with the law or now. And your affiliates will be paid 30 days after they have made the money. “the delay exists to protect ourselves from PayPal disputes, chargebacks, etc.” how convenient, for you that is. The only companies that can get away with such are delay are Google and their Adsense program and perhaps some of the bigger brands that take about 15-20 days to pay.
What happens if Paypal freezes my account for such payment? Are you gonna be able to pressure them, I doubt it. I’ve dealt long enough with Paypal to ever wanna send or receive anything there. Direct Wire, Moneybookers or Neteller that is of course if you are dealing with gambling affiliates. Once again if this is not towards the gambling affiliates I am missing the point of the thread being here.
And to finish up “We have the right to hold your money for up to 90 days before paying you if we suspect that you are referring fraudulent visitors to our site, with or without proof.” This is another big no no, and if someone read the whole page, and got to this part at this point they will most likely hit the [x] button.
Since when do I have control over my visitors, and their activity on the referred website? Big companies either ban the fraud or limit their access. They do not hold all of our money for 3 months.
So to finally answer the question, to gain the affiliate trust, you need to completely get a site re-design, get rid of everything I have pointed out in terms of payments and start participating in the community. Good luck hope anything I have written serves you well. If not discard and move on.