affilate rip off pattern

Does anyone else see a pattern with affilates

you join, shortly after you get a nice little commission, then you never get paid again, until you switch to a new affialte.

This happend like 5 or 6 times now to me, I join I get traffic , I get a sale , I never get a sale again.

Is it possible that some people, do this to give you that little bit of hope so they can rip you off for months?

 

Hi ferret77,

I would like to think most merchants are honest and think it would be crazy for them to do this. The way I see it the more affiliates make, the happier they are, the more they promote the program, the more the merchant makes and EVERYONE wins. Taking off my rose colored glasses, I'm sure there are some that are not honest though.

What type of programs are they. Is there a similarity? Are they all little ebook type programs, big programs, product based, lead based???

 

well I joined betty mills, I got commission right away, then nothing for a long time, then I got like an $80.00 commission. Then the $80 commission disappeared, and when I emailed to ask what happened nobody responded. I tried a couple more emails, and took down their links.

Lowermybills, put their banner up , got one lead, never got another lead for months their stuff wqs up there. Switched to another loan affilate and I get 3-4 leads a day from the same site.

Freaking werid, I just joined credit.com , and it looks like a site that gets 3-4 leads a day now is getting 0-1 leads a day, like magic, but hey It looks like I will still get that one, I guess its only been a couple days ....

 

maybe rip off is too strong a word, perhaps I should change that

 

I have had 'payment not taken' or item refunded quite a few times.. is there anyway to tell if its genuine?

 

I run some sites based on affiliate deals, but I always track the clicks/leads I generate. Just put them in an excel sheet and you'll see a pattern
1000 pageviews ==> 2 leads
100 leads ==> 2 sales

something like that.
if, somehow, things change (1000000 leads ==> 1 sale) switch to another affiliate program

 

Hey Ferret,,

Your post makes me want to look at your site. I was pissed with CJ when I was part of that years ago because most of the big payers at that time did not want to be doing biz with people across the pond. Still, I don´t blame them. I blame me for not being savvy enough with the whole deal.

Maybe you picked some crappy affiliates but maybe you are doing something wrong. Cough up a url.

Love ferrets by the way. Cool pic. Are you his pet? The only ferrets I ever knew kind of owned the family and not the other way round.

 

I've noticed one affiliate in particular who I hadn't sold stuff with in about 2 weeks and all of the sudden made two sales yesterday. I normally had sold something every day or every other day.

 

You can also track clicks on your end by sending the user to a page on your site that redirects to the affiliate url and logs the click. That way you will have a better idea if sales/leads match traffic and clicks.

 

I am going to have to take the time to write my own tracking scripts

I checked the betty mills stats , and there was no returned items

even if it was just glitch, it seems they would just say it was glitch

 

yeah the ferret in the pic doesn't own anyone, he has gone blind, and has become sort of less friendly in his old age, the other day he wet himself climbing over a wall. He is still funny in a archie bunker sort of way.

 

Ha ha. I have neighbour a bit like that, bless him. Cantankerous, peeing himself, basically biting your hand - but you have to go and feed the old devil or he´ll end up eating his shoes.

 

In php & mysql it could be as simple as:

<?php
      mysql_connect ('db_host', 'username', 'password');
      mysql_query ("INSERT INTO `tablename` (`url`, `timestamp`) VALUES ('".mysql_real_escape_string ($_GET['url'])."', NOW())");
      header ('Location: '.$_GET['url']."\n");
      exit;
?>

PHP: