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New Adwords Rules - I Slip Up & Lose £203.44p - Arrgghh!!!!
Oh, you gotta love affiliate marketing sometimes. So the new Adwords rules went live on Monday and I was on alert for the search landscape to change. Nothing happened. Spin forward 24 hours, and as the new ads begin to show on big name brands such as Next and Currys… I give […]
Have YOU Stolen Content & Ideas From Me Recently?
Tsk, tsk, tsk…. Paul. What were you thinking?
What’s Going On?
Some of you will remember that I previously mentioned someone had ripped off the concept behind one of the sites I regularly post about on here. New design and graphics, but all the content that had taken me so long to write […]
CJ - You Are The Weakest Link - Goodbye!
Right… so on what planet does it take 22 days to answer a perfectly reasonable question from an affiliate? And then you wonder why affiliates get so pissed off with your impersonal tattle and shoddy treatment they are forced to resort to poetry to get back at you?
So my CJ balance has had over […]
Clook NOT Guilty - Divorce Imminent At Affiliate Stuff!
Well, looks like I was wrong about Clook in my last post.
After getting a very nice and concerned e-mail from Jim at Clook (on a weekend day too) I decided to go off and investigate the incident further. The kind of incompetence I’d thought had happened just didn’t sound like this organisation I thought […]
Clook Web Hosting Costs Me Thousands Of Pounds!
*Edit: Read this first, then check out my latest post to see what REALLY happened and why Clook are nice guys after all*
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OK, so towards the end of last month an affiliate programme that had been going great guns for me suddenly stopped converting so well. We hadn’t changed anything, and the […]
Fasthosts Downtime Costs Affiliates Um Big Heap Cash
So I get up this morning over here in Australia, full of the usual joys of spring at the prospect of my early morning stats check. There’s nothing better than a cup of tea and some stats in bed (and no, I have nothing better to do in there in the mornings before some […]
Affiliates Suffer From “Grubby Little People” Syndrome
A huge amount of negative publicity and indignation was generated throughout the affiliate community when Nick Robertson of ASOS referred to his programmes former affiliates as “grubby little people” and inferred that many affiliates really did not add value to his business, ostensibly because they were engaged in dubious practises. A comment Mr Robertson remains […]
Ode To CJ - A Tale Of Affiliate Betrayal *Sob*!
A while ago I had a $4300 claw back from my CJ account with absolutely no warning or explaination. This was for commissions that had been paid out 12 months previously. At the time, I was mighty damned pissed off (who wouldn’t be?!?). It turned out that the commissions were from a merchant that […]
Primary Insurance - Clueless And Uncommunicative
I’d like to take this opportunity to thank the alleged affiliate marketing team at Primary Insurance for getting a hold put on my Commission Junction payments recently without even contacting me to explain why.
I’d been sending some brand-related traffic to their programme, which they decided they did not like and reported me to CJ. Until […]
Premierline Direct On AF - High Lead Declines
I’d recently started promoting a commercial insurance site, Premierline Direct. I’ve only sent 4 leads to them, and each and every one has been declined. OK, a small number of leads. However, the decline reason on the last 2 was “No Response From Lead”. First two were “invalid contact details”. Now, […]