I spoke to my zango rep today and was informed that Adultfriendfinder will not let anyone bid on their domains and keywords.
Apparently lars found a solution to his problem of sexsearch intercepting his traffic. Adultfriendfinder must have made a deal with zango that prevents anyone from targeting their domains, well except for them from what i see. I am going to contact the FTC tomorrow. I am not sure but if this is true i do not think this is legal. Zango's site is based off of people bidding on search terms. I do not think it is legal for them to allow Aff to have a monopoly on those domains and keywords.
If Aff has their domains locked up no one can intercept there traffic. So why do they continue to use an affiliate id in their zango pop up pages? I don't understand. Why intercept traffic from your affiliates and then say you are giving it back in raised payouts? Why don't you just drop the affiliate id and not intercept traffic in the first place if you don't have to. When you pop up cams.com over one of your Aff affiliate's urls, why not pop up an Aff page with no affiliate ID? This way everyone gets credit for their sales like they are suppose to. lars please come explain to us why you will not do this. Did you make a deal with Zango, no one else can bid on your domains? If so why do you still take sales from your affiliates ? Who else would be sending traffic to adultfriendfinder.com ? only your affiliates would, so why do you use your own affiliate id in the url?
I was also told that I can not send zango traffic to my own adultfriendfinder page. That's right. Aff doesn't allow their affiliates to use zango, seems to me they locked it up all for themselves. This is another issue I think the FTC will be interested in finding out about. Also Lars, why are you still targeting other sites like sexsearch now if they can't intercept your traffic. Why are you continuing to intercept everyone else's traffic? Perhaps this is why you wont let your affiliates use zango. I was told by a zango rep that I can not send any zango traffic to an Aff page. I guess Aff wants to make sure their affiliates don't compete with them for other people's traffic. Why would Aff want to give an affiliate commission to you if you are using zango when they would rather cut your out of the picture and make the zango sales to everyone else's sites 100% for themselves.
Cliff notes.
Aff made possible deal with zango and locked up their domains, no one else can bid on their urls.
Aff will not allow any of their affiliates to buy traffic on zango. They still target everyone else's traffic and wont even allow their own affiliates to use zango and compete with them. When you see any Aff zango ad it is from Aff and not one of their affiliates.
Aff is in bed with zango more then ever now from what i see. There is no way they are going to stop. To me they just locked it up so no one else can touch it. Monopoly ? I will let the FTC decide this.
Apparently lars found a solution to his problem of sexsearch intercepting his traffic. Adultfriendfinder must have made a deal with zango that prevents anyone from targeting their domains, well except for them from what i see. I am going to contact the FTC tomorrow. I am not sure but if this is true i do not think this is legal. Zango's site is based off of people bidding on search terms. I do not think it is legal for them to allow Aff to have a monopoly on those domains and keywords.
If Aff has their domains locked up no one can intercept there traffic. So why do they continue to use an affiliate id in their zango pop up pages? I don't understand. Why intercept traffic from your affiliates and then say you are giving it back in raised payouts? Why don't you just drop the affiliate id and not intercept traffic in the first place if you don't have to. When you pop up cams.com over one of your Aff affiliate's urls, why not pop up an Aff page with no affiliate ID? This way everyone gets credit for their sales like they are suppose to. lars please come explain to us why you will not do this. Did you make a deal with Zango, no one else can bid on your domains? If so why do you still take sales from your affiliates ? Who else would be sending traffic to adultfriendfinder.com ? only your affiliates would, so why do you use your own affiliate id in the url?
I was also told that I can not send zango traffic to my own adultfriendfinder page. That's right. Aff doesn't allow their affiliates to use zango, seems to me they locked it up all for themselves. This is another issue I think the FTC will be interested in finding out about. Also Lars, why are you still targeting other sites like sexsearch now if they can't intercept your traffic. Why are you continuing to intercept everyone else's traffic? Perhaps this is why you wont let your affiliates use zango. I was told by a zango rep that I can not send any zango traffic to an Aff page. I guess Aff wants to make sure their affiliates don't compete with them for other people's traffic. Why would Aff want to give an affiliate commission to you if you are using zango when they would rather cut your out of the picture and make the zango sales to everyone else's sites 100% for themselves.
Cliff notes.
Aff made possible deal with zango and locked up their domains, no one else can bid on their urls.
Aff will not allow any of their affiliates to buy traffic on zango. They still target everyone else's traffic and wont even allow their own affiliates to use zango and compete with them. When you see any Aff zango ad it is from Aff and not one of their affiliates.
Aff is in bed with zango more then ever now from what i see. There is no way they are going to stop. To me they just locked it up so no one else can touch it. Monopoly ? I will let the FTC decide this.
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