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Dirty little secrets of affiliate programs ...

02-10-2006, 04:29 PM

Do you know of a dirty little secret that one or more affiliate programs use that results in decreased affiliate income? If so, post it here, no company names needed. I'll start with one that has always bugged me and is done by practically every program.

No email or even news posted at their site regarding discontinued or otherwise inactive sites. Programs will often just quietly remove the link code from the linking page. The affiliate link code may just no longer work or if you are lucky redirect the traffic to another site in their network but unfortunately often the site is not in their network and thus you get no credit. If you got PPC ads running for the site and you do not keep on top of this, you could be buying advertising for the site with the traffic all getting redirected to a site outside their network for their profit.
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02-10-2006, 05:24 PM

BTW, if you run a program that does not do the above or any other things reported in this thread please post your program info so I and others can sign up if we have not already.
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02-10-2006, 05:40 PM

Originally posted by DigitalPimp

BTW, if you run a program that does not do the above or any other things reported in this thread please post your program info so I and others can sign up if we have not already.

bump for the dirty secrets
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02-10-2006, 05:47 PM

setting cookies to expire after a short time (like 1 hour lol)

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02-10-2006, 05:48 PM

Originally posted by Babagirls

setting cookies to expire after a short time (like 1 hour lol)

hmmm...that's slick how about popups or email collections?
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02-10-2006, 05:51 PM

Originally posted by DigitalPimp

BTW, if you run a program that does not do the above or any other things reported in this thread please post your program info so I and others can sign up if we have not already.

Wrong idea, you'll get spammed by every program rep out there

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02-10-2006, 05:52 PM

In regards to popups, many sites offer popup free link codes but since they know most people only need it for entrance and exit of the landing page, they will launch popups on entrance or exit of the tour or join page so technically it is not really popup free link code.
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02-10-2006, 05:54 PM

Originally posted by Doctor Dre

Wrong idea, you'll get spammed by every program rep out there

I think the fact that not one program has replied to my invitation to spam their program with the only limitation being that they do not do what I wrote about speaks volumes. If a program does these things and posts in here anyway, I and I am sure others will call them out on it.
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02-10-2006, 05:57 PM

Man.... I Hope There Aint No More Dirty Secrets

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02-10-2006, 05:57 PM

www.nscash.com does none of the things you have mentioned so far...in fact, they are some of the more honest people in the biz and have never really had any drama related to them

I don't like it when programs put the min payout at something like $100...then I send a couple joins and figure out that it sucks...so I basically lost money because I had $60 instead of $100...and if I tried an adwords campaign or some shit, I lost even more money
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02-10-2006, 06:00 PM

Checked a popular(on this board) site, and tried the email collection box at the bottom. Signup went ok, but when you click the link that takes you back to the site, it gets a new ref code.
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02-10-2006, 06:03 PM

Originally posted by Quickdraw

Checked a popular(on this board) site, and tried the email collection box at the bottom. Signup went ok, but when you click the link that takes you back to the site, it gets a new ref code.

Good one, that reminds me of another related one. Basically when a program offers a webmaster referal program and when you click on the affiliate links to one of their normal sites, the "Webmasters" link in the footer of the page does not have your code in it.
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02-10-2006, 06:06 PM

www.venuscash.com does not do any of this.
One linking code works for all my sites or the affiliate can have the link go to any page on my site he wants or have a special page made just for his/her traffic. Even if that page was removed, his link code would still work.

Originally posted by DigitalPimp

I think the fact that not one program has replied to my invitation to spam their program with the only limitation being that they do not do what I wrote about speaks volumes. If a program does these things and posts in here anyway, I and I am sure others will call them out on it.

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02-10-2006, 06:09 PM

I hate it when the webmaster link on the ref link paysites do not include my iwebmaster id.

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02-10-2006, 06:09 PM

Scumbag programs are what will kill the affiiliate game.

I have been an affiliate since 2000 and not one major program I list on http://www.affiliatesrus.com I have had for more than 4 years.

At last count I have dumped 40 programs.

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