It’s August – It Must Be Christmas
It’s August… time to start thinking about Christmas and the annual take apart Xmastime, redesign it, recode it and then one week before people start seriously doing their christmas shopping, redesign it and recode it again! The site also usually has at least one glaring affiliate error that is often only noticed on January 1st [...]
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Random Affiliate Annoyances
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 [...]
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B-ingo-ollocks
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 [...]
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Yahoo for Dancing
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 [...]
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Cutting Back Are We?
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 [...]
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