How to Build an Affiliate Agreement Affiliates Can Understand

Your affiliate agreement shouldn't read like it was written by a committee of attorneys trying to win a boredom contest. It needs to protect your program, but it also needs to be clear enough that affiliates know what they can do, what they can't do, and what happens if they break the rules. In this episode, I'm walking through how to build affiliate terms and conditions that affiliates can understand, including what to include in your preamble, definitions, approval policy, link rules, website restrictions, domain rules, advertising policies, FTC disclosures, coupon rules, PPC guidelines, and reversal policy. You don't need to speak legalese, but you do need an agreement that sets expectations, protects the good affiliates, and gives you something clear to point back to when problems show up.

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