Cookie Monsters
It’s been an interesting week in the affiliate marketing world following the discovery by an affiliate that a merchant was adding a surcharge on to the cost of goods if the customer had arrived via an affiliate link. When the affiliate/customer enquired about the surcharge they were advised to delete cookies and the surcharge would [...]
It’ll All End in Tiers
I’ve never really like tiered commissions for registration programs and here’s why. Merchant X (it’s always them isn’t!) offers affiliates x commission per registration. Achieve 200 leads and you go up a level, 300 up another and so on and so forth. So you work hard and send leads, you go up a level and [...]
CJ Javascript Link Initiative
Commission Junction are so far this year’s DGMPro in terms of offering affiliates a new system to implement. According to CJ their ‘Link Initiative’ means that affiliate links will be offered in javascript format as opposed to the usual html currently on offer. New affiliates will be given these links as of June 23rd whilst [...]
Affiliate Future Holiday Search Launched
Affiliate Future have launched a fantastic little tool that easily embeds into an affiliate’s site (for example a simple stand alone holiday search). It provides search results from a number of their holiday merchants including Virgin Holidays and Airtours. The search box can be customised (border, background and text) and there’s a number of different [...]
Weightwatchers To Slim Down Affiliates
According to their latest email Weightwatchers are the latest merchant to take the slightly strange route of removing affiliates:
“We will be reviewing our publishers over the next few weeks and if there has been little or no activity from your website, we may need to remove you from our programme at the end of June. [...]
