Comments on: Product Feed Misuse – Part 2

By: Affiliate Redirected Products in Google Base - Affiliate Marketing

Affiliate Redirected Products in Google Base - Affiliate Marketing — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 16:52:28 +0000

[...] opinion as it breaches Google’s T&C’s and it was this kind of spamming that prompted Newitts to remove their product feed. Networks usually clamp down on reported affiliates for this and ask them to remove their [...]

By: Dan

Dan — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 16:14:28 +0000

I’ve seen this Froogle spamming happening more and more often recently. It’s this kind of trickery that reflects badly on the affiliate marketing industry and leads to all legitimate affiliates getting tarred with the same (grubby) brush – as in the case of the withdrawal of the Newitts datafeed.

Let’s hope the networks are doing something to clamp down on it.

By: Clarke

Clarke — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 19:20:32 +0000

Itâ€™s a shame it comes to removing the feed from all for what is basically one Affiliate if I am reading this correctly.

I have to say however that I was not aware of this type of misuse myself and you know me, I like to keep up with all kinds of tricks and underhand stuff to keep it at bay.

My prediction is that you will see a major shift this year towards, not wanting to play ball, we will have to remove the ball from you approaches but I would ideally like to see that done on a individual basis and not a everyone basis. Doing it to everyone just telling the world you have lost control of your program or have other motives behind removing the service.