Thanks for the feedback, Michael.  I've sent it to our marketing department to review with our affiliate team.  I'm really sorry that this hasn't been a great experience!  We're definitely working to make this process better, so your feedback is much appreciated!

Hi Michael!  This is Megan from the SEOmoz Help Team.  Sorry to hear it's taking a long time to get approved for the affiliate program!  If you email affiliate@seomoz.org, someone should be able to get back to you with an update on your status.

Cheers!

Hi Jason,

This is Megan from the SEOmoz Help Team.  Unfortunately, since we crawl from the cloud, RogerBot's IP address is changing all of the time so we cannot specify a particular IP address.  Also, we do need the site to be live before we can crawl it, but you could remove the firewall and block all other bots except rogerbot so it won't get indexed anywhere else before it's ready.

I hope this helps!  Please let me know if you have any other questions.