Dealing with dodgy dealers & affiliate networks

I have closely following a thread on Wickedfire in the last few days, the talks about the Dubious affiliate networks. I realized that I never really discussed this topic in detail on the blog, my spin on everything had so here.

Dodgy dealer

It is inevitable that attempting every month hundreds of dealers you finally in the some dodgy, run. It is easy to believe that everyone in this industry is beautiful & "Look for each other" but if you, then you think need a serious reality check.

You have three types of traders

Those who manage their affiliate program in the House with a dedicated TeamThose, who outsource the management to a network but still approve purchasing/ThemselvesThose leads, (1-man show) managing the program itself

From experience have I had trouble from all three types. But most of the time it is for numbers, 2 & 3.

So, what are the ways that retailers can you of your well fought to cheat after commissions?

Scrubbing leads - this is unfortunately very common in our industry (especially in the adult space). It happens at the merchant level and at the network level. This basically means that the merchant or network is any number of your leads credit, pocketing the profit for yourself and you will not even know to.

How to combat - there is only one real way to combat this, & that you want to generate your leads locally, or to generate leads for you friends & catch the merchant red pass. The bottom line is, if you suspect that your dealer of this movement On…. quickly does.

Lead delay - this is common in the financial sector & refers to the processing time of applications for loans or credit cards. Make sure that the dealer is regularly approve you or leads, which you reject by sending.

How combat - a quick email to your AM or their Manager is usually the ball rolling on this subject. If that leads to long delay only switch dealers & save the headache, their loss.

High rates - I have come across a number of dealers in my time, which have a very high rate of the refund. This is a very, guard, especially in the financial area. If your task, which is provided someone with a "start" then the dealer should not entitled to refund it for a failed application, but some merchants only get not what really is the importance of leads.

How fighting - there is no way around this if a high refund then you call it the dealer & request an explanation. This is not Worthing pursing only then move on.

Test orders - I get them even those from time to time, it is possible that the occasional one or two is fine, but not more than that & you should start, worried. Why on earth you try so many orders under my affiliate ID, you don't have a test ID?

How fights - to ask the above question.

Bids on their own brand with an affiliate tracking ID - this is one of those who pisses me off most. I can all the work and to the customer presell but if they decide, go away to think about it & then again by entering the brand in Google cookie overrides the merchants me. This is very common and is something that the I before each campaign for review.

How fought, if you can outbid the merchants on their own brand & how many others tear them off to test:

Non-payment - perhaps the worst is your efforts do not for all & paid hard work. Remember from time to time can dealers be with payments in arrears or perhaps forgotten, but there is a difference between a payment and not always One…ever.

As you email your account manager or affiliate employees first, if it no answer and try again to fight. If you talk to a wall then contact, be it above write a letter, a reaction can provoke with a lawyer. Remember, try and research potential traders as far as possible, before you put all heavy volume & have always a backup things single go to belly.

Dodgy affiliate networks

Run in house campaigns - If you had an affiliate manager, who was paid to the performance of their associated companies & you access to "what worked" your own campaigns would run? Now, there are many AM of out there that do this & you have to your tracks to not give any secrets.

Do not keep their campaigns secret only protect your winnings, but also protect your niche. Are already bidding on a keyword with 0 competition almost over night you up again 1 or 2 competitors?

As fought -

Use redirects: PHP redirects generally pass the referrer string until, so you use a redirect, which do not want. Meta redirects or JavaScript redirections usually do quite well (keep in mind that some people JavaScript turn off to do). If I want to keep hidden things really will I use double redirects, by back the redirection of trace or real redirect as a referrer see to prevent the clock.

Encode your SubID: If you leave strong not go on sub IDs they call things like Subid = Affiliate_marketing_blog, you can convert also giving your top keyword list on a plate. It should look something like Subid = 9954412, if you don't know how you put code then you simply the real Subid value in a spreadsheet. If you're a DAB hand at PHP you can create a Simple tracking script their own identifying the Subid with the real term in your statistics.

Are your floor: Not in the network, let bully disclose your traffic sources as soon as you start to kill you with your campaign. If the traffic on the dealer end is until then, they have to worry network (unless you, not your campaigns giving away ) bottom line is that she will lose you risk when you send a decent amount of leads.

These are just my experience over the years, I learned how to do things much more about it (especially if it PPC) to be secretly. I would love to hear your experiences and what measures you take to protect your IP. Please call you no networks in the comments.

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