1. You don’t get enough traffic.
  2. You get the wrong traffic.
  3. You promote the wrong product to the wrong people.
  4. You give up too soon.
  5. You don’t understand your product.
  6. You don’t rely on your affiliate manager.
  7. You can’t build a proper website.
  8. You don’t research your niche.
  9. You don’t have a niche.
  10.  You only promote one product.
  11. You don’t know how to build a landing page
  12. Your copywriting sucks
  13. Your design isn’t appealing
  14. You overloaded with banner ads and drove prospects away
  15. You built your site in flash  loser
  16. You didn’t insert your aff code properly (ha ha!)
  17. Your testimonials are teh gay
  18. adsense overload
  19. You lose your customer with expired Aff product links
  20. Your page loads far too slowly.
  21. Your images don’t load.
  22. Your merchant is offline.
  23. Your merchant doesn’t pay his affiliates.
  24. You don’t have a variety of merchants.
  25. Your merchants don’t have what the shopper wants.
  26. You expect instant results and give up before you have really tried
  27. You never finish getting the site built fully
  28. You dont give the visitor enough information to make a decision
  29. You give the visitor too much information and never close
  30. You try to promote too many products at once
  31. Knowing the difference between sell and pre-sell
  32. Trying to follow every self-proclaimed guru
  33. Failing to maintain focus and having too many offers
  34. Thinking MFA means Marketing For Affiliates
  35. You think affiliate marketing will get you rich quick
  36. You don’t use your affiliate stats to improve your conversion
  37. You don’t use your site stats to improve your traffic quality
  38. The keywords you go for are too generic
  39. The nature of the offer is not very clearly presented on your landing page
  40. You waste money on buying shit unrelated traffic
  41. You never spend any time to promote your landing page
  42. Your host is unreliable and your landing page is down half the time
  43. You target the wrong audience
  44. You target the wrong geo locations.
  45. Your account details are wrong or fake at the affiliate program (doh!)
  46. You have too much text on your landing page
  47. You have too little text on your landing page
  48. You spend too much time looking at your stats and don’t get much work done on your site(s)
  49. You don’t spend enough time reading on affearners.com  Cheesy
  50. You have too many images on your page
  51. You don’t have enough images on your page
  52. Your images (from the merchant) are broken
  53. Your links (from the merchant) are broken
  54. Your merchant network isn’t crediting your account
  55. Your network has deactivated your merchant
  56. You never update your datafeed
  57. Your merchant doesn’t update his datafeed
  58. Your network doesn’t update the datafeed
  59. You don’t update your landing pages frequently
  60. You don’t know your competition
  61. You don’t understand the SEO for marketing
  62. You over-SEO your pages
  63. You under-SEO your pages
  64. You don’t have a business plan
  65. You don’t follow your business plan
  66. You don’t adjust your business plan
  67. You’re afraid of making mistakes
  68. You don’t want to take risks
  69. You take too many risks
  70. You don’t build relationships with like minded marketers
  71. You spend too much time building relationships
  72. You advertise in the wrong places
  73. You only optimize for one search engine
  74. You don’t use ppc advertising
  75. You use too much ppc advertising
  76. You spend too much on ppc advertising
  77. You don’t spend enough on ppc advertising
  78. You don’t learn from your mistakes
  79. You don’t learn from mistakes made by others
  80. your landing page has no call to action!
  81. You’ve over-designed and conversion isn’t happening
  82. You’re losing affiliate sales to Adsense (nickels for dollars)
  83. Your affiliate offer expired and lose your customer before checkout
  84. You have mucho duplicate content on your site.
  85. You don’t change the merchant categories.
  86. You don’t modify the description supplied by the merchant.
  87. Your images aren’t linked to the product.
  88. Your merchant banners are promoting Easter products in December.
  89. You use javascript links from your merchant.
  90. You use an I frame for your links.
  91. You are classed as a ‘thin affiliate’
  92. You put up an xml sitemap on a dynamic site.
  93. You don’t have an html sitemap for your site.
  94. You don’t have good visitor tracking.
  95. You don’t know which link your visitor clicked.
  96. You don’t know what your conversion rate is.
  97. You don’t know what the ratio of page views to clicks is.
  98. Your site is not sticky.
  99. You don’t spend enough time reading on affearners.com!

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