Check Out The Checkout or Chuck Out The Affiliate?
Electricshopping.com are the latest merchant to decide to change their affiliate policy with voucher code directories. Details and discussion are ongoing at A4U, but there’s two elements within that discussion that I feel need to be lifted and expanded upon. On the surface they’re two throw away comments made by two different merchants, but they’re [...]
Categories: Merchants
Tags: Checkout, cookies, Voucher Codes
Size Matters – The Illogicality of Affiliate Marketing Banners
Does size matter in affiliate marketing? Well yes it does and it matters a heck of a lot when you’re trying to actually give free advertising space on your site to promote a merchant. But size is an issue that is causing problems for many merchants on all networks… mainly because some sizes aren’t that [...]
Categories: Merchants
Tags: Affiliates, Banners, Creative
How To Avoid Appearing On Affiliate Blogs!
No merchant likes their affiliate program to be criticised or questioned on a forum or a blog! In an ideal world it wouldn’t happen. Everything would work well and we’d all back slap each other from here to eternity as the affiliate marketing machine kerchings at every turn.
Sadly affiliate marketing life isn’t like that – [...]
Categories: Affiliate Marketing, Merchants
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Lies, Damn Lies & Conversion Rates
Ok, it’s taken all of 48hours form Mr Chilled & Grumpy to revert back to Mr Grumpy. That’s in part to a skip delivery at 7.30am and then no builder delivery at 8.30am as scheduled – they’ll now be here to fight the mutant garden spiders (a blog to come) on Thursday.
However, the loss [...]
Categories: Affiliate Marketing, Bingo, Merchants
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Take a Ticket & Get In Line – You Can’t All Be No.1!
Every merchant thinks their program is the bees knees and because of this they automatically expect that an affiliate is going to be bending over backwards to get links, banners and copy onto their sites Tommy Cooper stylee… “just like that”! However, that’s not quite how it works affiliate wise in duckland.
As we work with [...]
Categories: Affiliate Marketing, Merchants
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