You’ll notice there are more ads on the site recently. It’s not because I need to recoup my investment in the site and need the pennies I get for these ads; it’s just because I’m a money grubbing bastard.
Anyway, this is the response I got to my application to the Target affiliate program:
We regret to inform you that Target.com has chosen not to accept
you into their affiliate program at this time. The reason for this
decision may be as follows:
- Promote sexually explicit materials
- Promote violence or hate toward any persons or groups
- Promote discrimination based on race, sex, age, religion, nationality, disability or sexual orientation
- Promote illegal activities
- Promote tobacco or gambling
- Contain, in our sole judgment, material that is defamatory, fraudulent or harassing
- Misrepresent themselves as a Target Web site by using the “look and feel” of or text from our site
- Include “Target” or variations or misspellings thereof in their domain names
- Otherwise violate intellectual property rights of Target or its affiliates
- Do not clearly state an online privacy policy to their visitors
- Require a user name and password to access
- Are non-US based sites or are sites that primarily serve a non-US based audience
- Are unable to direct a reasonable amount of traffic by way of sales volume, clicks and page views to our site
- Otherwise are considered (in our sole judgment) offensive or inappropriate
- Link to or provide a portion of their commission or affiliate benefits to sites or organizations that violate any of the above criteria.