do you post the affiliate link straight up ?

[yuri]

are people stupid enough to click on your dating affiliate link ?

isn't it obvious if they see

mydating.com/?aff=29842

how do you convince them to join ?

[GreenMachine]

Have you ever considered some form of cloaking? It may be worth it to have some sort of a pre-sell landing page as well that way you can shape your sales pitch to your landing page... But seriously... cloak your link... sure people are stupid... but it'd be nice to get sales on the smarter ones too...

[akarmicsoda]

use link shortener, like bit.ly