Comments on: Why some advertisers pi$$ me off!

By: Paul S

Paul S — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 17:10:35 +0000

Who was the advertiser?
Boycott their product!
or …
Simply switch to a competing offer! Ha!

Why do they even bother to use affiliates if they resent paying compensation for our efforts?

By: Gabe

Gabe — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 06:49:31 +0000

You might already be doing this, but for PPC, just exclude the state that the merchant is located in. Alot of the internal guys are too ignorant to use the adpreview tool.

By: T Cain

T Cain — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 19:54:35 +0000

Advertisers use us affiliates as test rats! They watch to see what we do and then smash us with a bat once they understand whats making money. They waste time and money doing the run around from the beginning. If they’re so proud of their offer they should hire heavy hitters from the beginning to capitalize, without opening it up to us and then ripping it away…eff those ninjas…just my experience….

By: Trevor

Trevor — Wed, 27 May 2009 14:33:08 +0000

@amy Yes, but that doesn’t always matter. If you have an ad in ppc and they go search for keywords they think you may be using, they can still see your ad and where it goes to.

By: amy

amy — Wed, 27 May 2009 05:07:25 +0000

didn’t u cloak kws and traffic sources?

By: Emile Bourquin

Emile Bourquin — Wed, 13 May 2009 22:34:55 +0000

Seems like they are in their optimizing phase. Optimization consists of “See what the affiliates do to make a bunch of money off us, restrict said practices, implement them ourselves.” Seems you made a fool of the PPC “consultants” they hired, the only way to compete with you was to take away your best tools.

By: Michael Arbach

Michael Arbach — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:23:20 +0000

Why don’t these avertisers just put a big disclaimer on their offer that says ‘WE COMPETE WITH OUR AFFILIATES”
btw, if your using long tail keywords that they are prolly not bidding on anyway, why would they put up a fuss, thats why they are part of the network, so people smarter than themselves can do the work deep work…. ugggggg sometimes i think this industry is more confusing than the femaile temperamant.
ohh and, your AM said “no bidding on “*****” Advertiser is bitching” …….. dont the search engines stop people from bidding on curse words anyway??? hahaha just playin. Keep these post’s comin man!!!

By: Nick Mattern - Review Plugin For Wordpress

Nick Mattern - Review Plugin For Wordpress — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 13:55:05 +0000

You could always find out the sites/landers the merchant is using, mess with them a little, knock them down to the point they’re only great option is to let you rock and roll with your old strategy!

By: Ann

Ann — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 02:39:15 +0000

Great info. Been reading several of your posts now. How did you learn all this stuff at such a young age? I’m almost 40 and I’ve spent the past 6 years trying to learn all this on my own. Can you give me some pointers on where I can get educated more quickly about Internet marketing? I can’t wait any longer.

By: Matt Larson

Matt Larson — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 15:43:57 +0000

Good post – surely there is some middle management person mucking it up for the company to protect their own mediocrity. If the top guys knew how easily affiliates can blow their folks out of the water, the search team would be out of a job. Hopefully your words here don’t fall on deaf ears.