Random Affiliate Annoyances July 27th, 2005 11:50 pm Leave a comment

Annoying Advertisers
Which part of ‘no we are not interested in working with you’ do some companies find difficult to comprehend? One company phoned us on Monday enquiring about getting space on Loquax. We said “no” - quite simply because they’re USA based and our UK partners work well for our audience. Today (Wednesday) they phoned …. Continue Reading

B-ingo-ollocks July 23rd, 2005 12:35 pm Leave a comment

Yesterday we had an invite to join a bingo affiliate program. It’s a big brand name site and could do well. Login works, banners are there - great stuff! Today we tried to login to another bingo merchant who we’ve been pushing for a month or so - and we can’t login to see our …. Continue Reading

Yahoo for Dancing July 21st, 2005 10:37 pm Leave a comment

According to Webmasterworld there’s changes a foot with the search results for Yahoo and from having had a look something is not right. On some terms we’ve seen sites that are clearly using dubious cloaking techniques and keyword stuff techniques to ride high.
This is bad for affiliates who seeing that their efforts to build community …. Continue Reading

Cutting Back Are We? July 15th, 2005 7:55 pm Leave a comment

Had a phone call today from a direct marketing company who operate an affiliate program. After the usual pleasentries and introductions rather than ask us to promote them, they asked if we’d like them to promote us on a cost per registration basis.
Now we wouldn’t - no other reason than we don’t want to spend …. Continue Reading

Celebrity Endorsements July 13th, 2005 7:01 pm 2 comments

Received this email today…
“Please advise me who your marketing contact is, I would like to offer you association with Fran Cosgrave who recently won the leading reality TV show ‘Celebrity Love Island Reunion’.
Fran is a skilled poker player and would like to endorse your products and services.”
It arrived with a topless photo of Fran posing …. Continue Reading