I have tested the network by applying for two relevant providers. First impression:
- One provider I asked to join. I get automatic approval with a link in the email response that I could paste into my site. I could decide on the anchor text myself. That is good. It took a few minutes before the link became active.
- One program that I was invited to join. They required manual approval, so I got an email with a message that approval could take weeks. This could have been better IMO. Invited programs should let you in automatically since they ought to have found your site relevant for their Ads. Think of it, you may join a network with thousands of adverticers and can drown in bureaucratic email correspondence. IMO you should have an option in the software to only receive emails from advertisers that has found your site interesting and thus accepted you. In the reply email there should be a lot of text and banner links that you can paste into your site without having to log in.
- So the affiliate software program coiuld have been better. Hopefully, it will be changet to the better when Google get control of it.