1-800-pet-meds is a publicly traded animal pharmacy located in Pompano Beach, FL. The company operates an affiliate program through Linkshare. Here are the reasons not to join the program.
In my first month advertising for the company I had my most successful number of impressions and clicks for any affiliate site I've set up. However not one single click resulted in a sale despite very relevant site content.
If you perform a Google search and scroll past all their advertisements you will find that the company has garnered a great deal of negative goodwill due to its shady and illicit practices.
If you are approved for the program, they will wait until you have generated traffic and have performed SEO on your site and then threaten to sue you if you don't give them your domain.
Once you have built a highly optimized site advertising for them they will threaten you with a lawsuit for using generic terms such as pet medicine. In lieu of a lawsuit you only need to give them your site including all content! Since they are a $200 Million dollar company it is unlikely you will have the resources to fight off a company that is comprised of more lawyers than real employees.
These are the hallmarks of 1-800-pet-meds take their advertisers hard work, use the positive SEO built to enhance their search results and not payout anything to the advertisers. Corrupt organization!
This company is scum! Stay far, far away!
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