Following on from my last posts about corruption in affiliate marketing I did some more digging. I had a few people push my in the right direction so thanks to them for that, again everything below is just how I see it and is based on things I’ve found online, might be 100% inaccurate.

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Well I lasted 7 days and at about half 9 this morning I received a call from Nick at TradeDoubler to question my activity. How it was handled wasn’t a typical case as you’d imagine (with the whole public blog detailing what I was doing) but Nick did tell me how they would handle a […]

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Well im just running riot these days, blowing the whistle on corruption, breaking rules, leaving it till the very last minute to renew the car tax – whatever next!

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I’ve been sat on this post for about 4 months now, and its about time it came out.

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Well its day one in the big rule breaking house, sorry. Anyway My ads been running for the most of the day, some other affiliate seems to be having a bit of a stab on my terms but we seem to have reached a bit of a mutual agreement and the ads are showing fairly […]

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A mini update as I only started breaking the rules for a particular merchant an hour or so ago. From this campaign sales have now been made and commission generated, the brand is slightly more popular than I anticipated so I’ve upped my daily limit to $60 which I imagine will be gone by midday […]

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I’ve gone rouge. I have just this minute set up a PPC campaign that purposefully breaks a programmes terms and conditions – why? To see what happens. Id expect within a day or so the merchant to notice, knowing the merchant side of the network that this merchant is on the merchant will have access […]

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Following on from my post yesterday about PPC policies that get ignored I decided to do a bit more research, dig around and see what I could find. See if it is just a few programmes and see which affiliates are doing it.

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Talking purely as an affiliate now, most affiliate programmes at the moment have PPC rules in place. Now I have no problem with these, if someone says don’t bid on the brand name I wont, someone says don’t use our display URL fine. If I don’t like these rules or think they are too imposing […]

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Inspired by a post made by Paul earlier today, his post seems to take a more retail angle on it with shopping carts and pre fillings them. The general gist of the post is that once you pre sell a product on your site or in your PPC ad copy in an ideal world the […]

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