Jack applied to join an affiliate program, but his application was declined. He's both surprised and confused. He does have a plan on how to promote the merchant for whose program he applied, but the merchant chose not partner with Jack. Why? Perhaps he didn't provide the merchant with enough information to enable him to understand how this could be a mutually beneficial partnership.

Over the past few days I've been reviewing literally hundreds of affiliate applications to a brand new affiliate program we launched Friday afternoon. 32.3% of the applications were declined because the applicants committed at least one of the following 6 mistakes. To help affiliates avoid this fate, I decided to put together this post.

Here are the 6 more widely-spread ways to get your affiliate application declined: