Comments on: Learning the Hard Way – Check Your Affiliate Links http://selfmademinds.com/200711/learning-the-hard-way-check-your-affiliate-links/ Sharing lessons learned in business and online marketing Thu, 09 Sep 2010 12:54:01 +0100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Jean http://selfmademinds.com/200711/learning-the-hard-way-check-your-affiliate-links/comment-page-1/#comment-13279 Jean Tue, 14 Jul 2009 05:56:24 +0000 http://selfmademinds.com/200711/learning-the-hard-way-check-your-affiliate-links/#comment-13279 Nice post. Unfortunately this is part of this whole affiliate marketing. I still remember how many dead links I found after investigating on some of the affiliate programs I promote. Really not a piece of cake if you have to check them one by one and do the necessary changes. Fortunately some affiliate programs redirect the traffic to some other products but it can be misleading for your promotions. Nice post. Unfortunately this is part of this whole affiliate marketing. I still remember how many dead links I found after investigating on some of the affiliate programs I promote. Really not a piece of cake if you have to check them one by one and do the necessary changes. Fortunately some affiliate programs redirect the traffic to some other products but it can be misleading for your promotions.

]]> By: ScottUA http://selfmademinds.com/200711/learning-the-hard-way-check-your-affiliate-links/comment-page-1/#comment-5908 ScottUA Sun, 16 Dec 2007 22:34:36 +0000 http://selfmademinds.com/200711/learning-the-hard-way-check-your-affiliate-links/#comment-5908 Dude...that sucks. I hate making small errors like that which cause major lose of revenue. Hope you did well with your other Halloween promotions. Dude…that sucks. I hate making small errors like that which cause major lose of revenue. Hope you did well with your other Halloween promotions.

]]> By: Carl http://selfmademinds.com/200711/learning-the-hard-way-check-your-affiliate-links/comment-page-1/#comment-5404 Carl Tue, 27 Nov 2007 07:39:11 +0000 http://selfmademinds.com/200711/learning-the-hard-way-check-your-affiliate-links/#comment-5404 I've just found an old site of mine that has been getting a fair bit of very targetted traffic but hasn't made any money, it seems my aff links were dead aswell, so a quick search revealed amazon as the only source of the product now, so a quick switch of the links and I'm now seeing about £1.50 a day... So thanks for the tip as I hadn't checked the stats on this site for ages. I’ve just found an old site of mine that has been getting a fair bit of very targetted traffic but hasn’t made any money, it seems my aff links were dead aswell, so a quick search revealed amazon as the only source of the product now, so a quick switch of the links and I’m now seeing about £1.50 a day…

So thanks for the tip as I hadn’t checked the stats on this site for ages.

]]> By: Abdul http://selfmademinds.com/200711/learning-the-hard-way-check-your-affiliate-links/comment-page-1/#comment-5217 Abdul Sat, 17 Nov 2007 09:18:26 +0000 http://selfmademinds.com/200711/learning-the-hard-way-check-your-affiliate-links/#comment-5217 Over the summer holiday after my GCSE's I worked on a little application that will check if the person you exchanged links with still has your link. And if they don't then you are notified. I am pretty sure it can be modified a bit to fit in with your needs. I will look into it when I have some time. (Yet another idea lol) Over the summer holiday after my GCSE’s I worked on a little application that will check if the person you exchanged links with still has your link. And if they don’t then you are notified.

I am pretty sure it can be modified a bit to fit in with your needs.

I will look into it when I have some time. (Yet another idea lol)

]]> By: Welcome to the Weekend Links! » Home Business Blog http://selfmademinds.com/200711/learning-the-hard-way-check-your-affiliate-links/comment-page-1/#comment-5204 Welcome to the Weekend Links! » Home Business Blog Fri, 16 Nov 2007 22:01:04 +0000 http://selfmademinds.com/200711/learning-the-hard-way-check-your-affiliate-links/#comment-5204 [...] Learning the Hard Way… Check your Affiliate Links!! I met Scott Jones on my blog forum and have been reading Self Made Minds [...] [...] Learning the Hard Way… Check your Affiliate Links!! I met Scott Jones on my blog forum and have been reading Self Made Minds [...]

]]> By: Smaxor http://selfmademinds.com/200711/learning-the-hard-way-check-your-affiliate-links/comment-page-1/#comment-5202 Smaxor Fri, 16 Nov 2007 18:57:40 +0000 http://selfmademinds.com/200711/learning-the-hard-way-check-your-affiliate-links/#comment-5202 Only issue with not going through the affiliate link is a lot of time the offer is still there but might have been dropped from your network. I suggest going through an affiliate link personally. If you wanted to be sneaky just find someone ones else id and use that then it won't mess up your stats. Most likely they're not running your offer anyways. But you didn't hear that from me. Or if you have a good relationship with your affiliate company ask for a second ID. Or you can sign up for multiple accounts with things like CJ. But that's just my 2 cents. Only issue with not going through the affiliate link is a lot of time the offer is still there but might have been dropped from your network. I suggest going through an affiliate link personally. If you wanted to be sneaky just find someone ones else id and use that then it won’t mess up your stats. Most likely they’re not running your offer anyways. But you didn’t hear that from me. Or if you have a good relationship with your affiliate company ask for a second ID. Or you can sign up for multiple accounts with things like CJ. But that’s just my 2 cents.

]]> By: Smaxor http://selfmademinds.com/200711/learning-the-hard-way-check-your-affiliate-links/comment-page-1/#comment-5201 Smaxor Fri, 16 Nov 2007 18:54:47 +0000 http://selfmademinds.com/200711/learning-the-hard-way-check-your-affiliate-links/#comment-5201 Marc, I have to say I don't think they care. But if they do this is why they shouldn't. We're taking 100% of the risk as the affiliate. I invest 1-2$/click to send traffic to their offer that could very well not convert. Are they out even a dime? Nope not one red cent, however I could be out 1-2k bucks sending traffic to a dead offer. I'm not suggesting ping the offer every 5 seconds, maybe set it to ping once an hour just so you don't wind up a day or two down the road sending traffic to no where. That can be a VERY costly mistake. On that same note I'm in my office 14 hours a day usually working away but had to go to a trade show this whole week. Well I woke up got ready, checked stats and then bolted out of the house at about 6am. Well at this show there was no internet unless you were going to pay $1500 so I just opt'ed out on that. Well when I got home at 9 pm after a cocktail party I found my server was down from about 7am. So all the 1-2$/click I was paying for Payday traffic was going no where. I guess what I'm getting at is spend a couple bucks on monitoring for your servers with people to reset them. I didn't think I needed this as I'm always at home. Guess what I was wrong! Good ol' school of hard knox. I could have paid for a lifetime of monitoring for all my servers for what that mistake cost me. Get monitoring if your spending money on PPC advertising. Marc, I have to say I don’t think they care. But if they do this is why they shouldn’t. We’re taking 100% of the risk as the affiliate. I invest 1-2$/click to send traffic to their offer that could very well not convert. Are they out even a dime? Nope not one red cent, however I could be out 1-2k bucks sending traffic to a dead offer. I’m not suggesting ping the offer every 5 seconds, maybe set it to ping once an hour just so you don’t wind up a day or two down the road sending traffic to no where. That can be a VERY costly mistake.

On that same note I’m in my office 14 hours a day usually working away but had to go to a trade show this whole week. Well I woke up got ready, checked stats and then bolted out of the house at about 6am. Well at this show there was no internet unless you were going to pay $1500 so I just opt’ed out on that. Well when I got home at 9 pm after a cocktail party I found my server was down from about 7am. So all the 1-2$/click I was paying for Payday traffic was going no where. I guess what I’m getting at is spend a couple bucks on monitoring for your servers with people to reset them. I didn’t think I needed this as I’m always at home. Guess what I was wrong!

Good ol’ school of hard knox. I could have paid for a lifetime of monitoring for all my servers for what that mistake cost me. Get monitoring if your spending money on PPC advertising.

]]> By: Matthew http://selfmademinds.com/200711/learning-the-hard-way-check-your-affiliate-links/comment-page-1/#comment-5186 Matthew Fri, 16 Nov 2007 12:56:15 +0000 http://selfmademinds.com/200711/learning-the-hard-way-check-your-affiliate-links/#comment-5186 I guess it depends on how you link through to check. If you were to go direct to the product and do a quick scan once a day then I doubt anyone would care or notice. If you were going through aff links that forwarded to the URL and checking all the time then it might cause problems. I guess it depends on how you link through to check. If you were to go direct to the product and do a quick scan once a day then I doubt anyone would care or notice. If you were going through aff links that forwarded to the URL and checking all the time then it might cause problems.

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]]> By: Al http://selfmademinds.com/200711/learning-the-hard-way-check-your-affiliate-links/comment-page-1/#comment-5140 Al Tue, 13 Nov 2007 20:12:04 +0000 http://selfmademinds.com/200711/learning-the-hard-way-check-your-affiliate-links/#comment-5140 Thanks doolally, that would help finding the ones were the pages had been removed. Thanks doolally, that would help finding the ones were the pages had been removed.

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