Too Many Cooks, Spoil The Broth

There are many affiliates with sites who work with one or more other affiliates, on some form of rev share, or a 'you put your links on what you write and i'll put mine on what i write'. For some people i am sure this works really well, but it doesn't always work and here is why;

They forget
Busy with their own sites, they forget to update the joint site, meaning you have to do all the work, yet are still paying them on a rev share, or for people sifting throught the site and clicking through on one of their links.

What they write is utter tosh
Some people, and yes that includes me, have poor spelling and grammar and will often forget to spell check. This means all the effort you go to writing decent content which looks professional is lost by the shoddy workmanship by your fellow affiliate.

You both write the same thing
If you are copying/altering content from other sites, you may end up both writing about the same thing. This can work well if the content is truly unique, but will just look plain stupid if you both copy the same content.

The Solution
This is pretty simple. Just make sure you have clear expectations from each other. Realistic expectations, so if someone has commitments that take up a Tuesday night, make sure you write the content or update the site that day.
Be fair with the money, if one of you is writing more and it is clear to both or all parties involved, then be honest and fair and pay them their dues. You would expect to receive the most money if you were doing the most work.
Have some form of plan that you can all work to. This will make sure you all write different and varied pieces of copy, or update different parts of your site.

All these scream out 'this is common sense' but you would be suprised to see and hear just how many affiliates are taken for mugs by other affiliates, or how many are taking the pi$$ of others.

AB