Pulling The Rug From Under Affiliates...

A major concern of mine for people who only earn money from associate programs is that the rug can be pulled out from under you. It's all very well building excellent mini sites and making sure pages score highly in the search engines. But what happens if the associate program closes? What if the affiliate program commissions are changed such that you earn $0.25 per click instead of $0.50... but you know all your pay per click campaigns are only profitable if you earn over $0.35 per click? Nightmare! Here's a very real example which I received a few days ago from c2it, the Citibank-backed person-to-person payment system (kind of like PayPal)...