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How Affiliate Networks Are Screwing You

Posted: 28 Mar 2016 06:03 AM PDT

I, like many affiliates always have thought affiliate networks were stealing money from me…

I been in the game for a decade.  Started as an affiliate,  then had my own product,  ran my own affiliate network for my own products and then putting my products into more mainstream affiliate networks.

So being on all these sides I would like to share with you the reasons why your not getting credit for sales/leads your doing.

  • Shaving:  This is straight sticking it up your ass.  They set your pixel to NOT fire a certain percentage of the time.  Yes it does happen on some networks.  I know for a fact because with my own products the networks have told me to do a higher payout on my offer but shave the affiliate back to where I need them to be.
  • Scrubbing:  This can happen for many reasons.  Let’s say you’re doing a lead generation that pays on a name/email/whatever submit.  Services like BriteVerify will return to the product owner if the email submitted is actually valid and not a throwaway email or other reasons.  Scrubbing can also happen when a product changes their terms.  Let’s say you’re driving dating leads and they only take certain countries/sex/age range.  Then one day the advertiser (offer owner) change it and you no longer get credit for those leads.  Almost always affiliate networks will email you to let you know about the change but if you are like me you can easily miss that.  I have had this happen to me in the dating vertical a couple times.  Also back when I was promoting ringtone offers via ppc then all of a sudden the offer owner no longer accepts… say AT&T.  And here I am bidding on AT&T Ringtones as a keyword.  OUPS.   To be fair to the affiliate network sometimes they are not even aware that this is happening.
  • Email mangled emails:   This is something I really didn’t figure out until I had my own offer.  If you are mailing out offers via your auto responder or in a blast url’s can get mangled.  It does fine with the domain but variables after it can mangle.  Say your affiliate link is affiliatenetwork.com/?affid=2323&subid=sub1   The affid would of course be your affiliate id.  For some reason email clients will mangle the ? to something like #@?  for example.   I just recently discovered this after talking with HasOffers that powers my affiliate network.  We often had sales that should have been attributed to an affiliate.  Now since I pay on a CPC level this didn’t hurt the affiliate.  Just screwed up my tracking.

So those are the main reasons that I have found and I have run into them all.  There is another factor for those that use cookie only tracking.  A VERY small percentage of people have privacy set to not allow cookies.  While this is extremely low,  its almost always what affiliate networks will tell you is the reason.

Now with all that said lets talk turkey.  No matter what the affiliate network has to make it work for the affiliates or they will go somewhere else.  The best way to test this is obviously to get the exact same offer from different networks and do a split to see if in fact their is something going on.

Anyway hope this helps.

 
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Promote Your Business with Blog Reviews - DailyBlogTips

Promote Your Business with Blog Reviews - DailyBlogTips

Promote Your Business with Blog Reviews

Posted: 24 Mar 2016 02:00 PM PDT

If you have a business website, be it an online store, a web app or a magazine, you know that promoting it and doing some advertising is a must if you want your site to grow and become popular.

Most people know the traditional advertising methods: display banners, video ads, Facebook ads and so on. One advertising method you probably don’t know about, but that is very efficient, is blog reviews.

By getting a blog review you’ll be able to get your brand in front of the audience of the specific blogs and sites you choose. If those are relevant to your product or service, the overall return on investment should be nice, because you’ll be exposing your brand to people who interested in it.

The big advantage of blog reviews over other forms of advertising is that your message will go straight to the visitors. People tend to ignore banners and traditional ads, but they will read a blog review just like they would a normal post, making it a very effective advertising option.

When people hear about blog reviews they tend to think that we are talking about fake reviews. That is not the case. Most review networks required the bloggers to write real and unbiased reviews about the products and services. You can also disclaim that the review is sponsored by your company, making the process 100% transparent and ethical.

If you want a recommendation, check out the guys from Get Reviewed. It’s a new blog review advertising network that is growing quite fast, and they already have a nice list of authority blogs where you can get reviews from.

Finally, remember to not put all your eggs on the same basket. Mixing banner ads, social media advertising and blog reviews can be an efficient combination to raise awareness about your brand and drive more visitors and customers to your website!

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