How to Become ShareASale Merchants' Affiliate Program

This article is a continuation of the article How to be an Affiliate in ShareASale. After being an affiliate in ShareASale, now we learn how to become ShareASale Merchants' affiliate program. We can join this program if ShareASale received our application.

Step 1. Login to http://www.shareasale.com/a-login.cfm
Use your username and password

Step 2. Click View and Search Merchant List menu

In ShareASale, we could search merchants with a variety of criteria.
a. A new program in the last 20 days
If we choose this, the benefit is not too much competition wuth other affiliate.

b. All programs
If we click it, we could see all the programs, but this requires a long time for loading.

c, Pay-per-Sale
If we click it, we could see the merchants who have Pay-per-Sale affiliate program. We will recieve the commission if we successfully make the sale. Most of merchants use this PPS program.

d. Pay-per-Lead
If we clicked it, we will see the merchants who have Pay-per-Lead (PPL) affiliate program or also called CPA (Cost Per Action). We will get commissions if the visitors became leads (prospects).

e. Pay-per-Click
If we click this, we will see Pay-per-Click Affiliate Program. We will get compensation if we send visitors to the merchants. These types of affiliate programs are rare and usually relatively small in commission.

f. New Program activated in this month (or any other month).
We can also choose to display merchants or affiliate program that active in particular month.

g. Program exclusive to the ShareASale Network
If we click this link, it will display merchants or affiliate programs that only exclusive in ShareASale. Sometimes a merchant join some affiliate network for promoting their products or services.

h. Basic Keyword Search
If we click this link, we would see a box. Here we can type the keyword of the merchant or the product we can to know.

i. Advances Search
We could search merchant with various criteria.

Step 3. Sign up to the merchant you want to promote
Before you promote or join with a merchant, don't forget to read the TOS (Terms of Agreement). After that, select the merchant, click Start Program. If there are merchants that display enroll in the program, that's mean you have joined in the merchant.

Step 4. Write your marketing strategy in promoting them
This will affect whether you will be accepted or not. Tell them what strategy you want to use, PPC or SEO.

After that mark I have read and agree to the Program Agreement for Affiliates. Click to join the program. You will recieve an email that show whether our application is accepted or not. Usually when our application is rejected, most likely because we do not a website that is relevant to the product of the merchants. To increase the probability of our receipt, please add all of some of your website to your account in ShareASale.

Go to main menu, select Account setting, then click edit account setting. Scroll down to find the form fields to add a website. All of our website will be visible by the merchants' affiliate. It will be a consideration whether our website relevant to the merchant or not. Added our portofolio website, will help us to be accepted in many merchants.