From a unique webpage or blog article to a more sophisticated website, pandora jewellery partner programs are options to monetize a site or make an income on the Net. There are many jewelry  retailers with affiliate programs that can be contemplated to earn money online, how can the choice be made?

The first thing to do is to visit the merchant’s site and see if it is easy to navigate and find products. Is the merchandise of good quality? Are they all high-priced, or too low-priced to make any partner commission? A wide range of prices is ideal as there will be a product for any potential buyer’s budget.

The second thing to do would be to add products in the shopping cart and see if the process is smooth when ordering. Faulty software, too many steps or links to click, too many distractions like other offers before check-out, may lead to shopping cart abandonment, which is a loss for affiliates as well as merchants.

Finally, where does the merchant ship? Does that match the traffic on the affiliate’s site? What is the return policy and shipping fees? Does the merchant’s site has some review of happy customers having bought jewelry? A great deal of questions, that the affiliate has to think about as a customer himself before starting to promote the store’s products.

An important factor would be now to have a close look at the affiliate program and see if the merchant works with an affiliate network, such as ShareAsale or Commission Junction, or runs its own software. There are inconveniences and advantages to the two of them, but the network, at the minimum, guarantees that tracking is dependable and shows if the jewelry merchant has enough funds to pay affiliate commissions.

Another thing an affiliate would want to see is the commission and the cookie duration, which is the period of time an affiliate is credited for a sale when a customer returns to the store and buys a product. A higher commission may not be ideal if the cookie duration is too short. Some jewelry partner programs permit just a session to generate a sale, while others give 120 days to their affiliates…

The third thing would be to look at the creative the jewelry merchant makes available to their affiliates. Do they have a large choice of banners in different sizes? Do they provide coupons, a data-feed and widgets? Do they have an experienced dedicated partner manager to help their affiliates and answer questions? That’s more questions affiliates should be answering themselves.