My goal is to recommend affiliate products to my customers using my own text (not banners, not popups). Azoogle or Clickbank provide a nice link to use to get the lead. MaxBounty on the other hand only provides 'text ads' in their creatives section with text like, "CLICK HERE to sign-up now!". They will provide 3 or 4 stupid links like that to use along with banners and popups. That sort of crappy keyword-less ambiguous junk in my pages is stupid and not appropriate for me so I have been just grabbing the link code and using it for my own text. I emailed my affiliate manager about what link I should be using and she indicated that affiliates MUST use the text ads provided by the merchant otherwise the merchant doesn't have to pay out! I'm not even allowed to put a different word in there. I don't understand this. Isn't the whole point to drive traffic to the merchant and for them to get sales? It's not like I'm saying their site is porn or something! If my way of making it flow with my content creates more leads, why is that not allowed? Why must I use the stupid anchor text they've provided? I've been told that if I change anything in the anchor text, I must have it okay'ed by the merchant. What the...? At least they could have developed text ads with some keywords and 'pre-selling' text instead of 'sales-pitch' nonsense. What do other MaxBountiers think? Thanks!
Hi eepruls, I need to clarify something here. Your affiliate manager gave you information that wasn't quite correct. You are allowed to modify the creatives you pull from the system, provided you get approval from your affiliate manager beforehand. The reason we require the approval first is to prevent abuse. Based on the description you provided, I would imagine your changes would be fine. But other less scrupulous affiliates might be tempted to change the creative in ways that are not acceptable. For example, adding the word "Free" to ringtone creatives. Or, removing the fine print from HTML ads. There are other examples, but I don't need to list them all here for you to get the idea. PM me or e-mail me with your MaxBounty account info, and I'll personally speak with your affiliate manager to make sure your creative mods are reviewed on a priority basis. Thank you. Steve Sauve MaxBounty Inc. steve at maxbounty.com