{"id":211,"date":"2007-06-29T09:24:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-29T14:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/69.80.208.152\/affiliateprogramadvice\/?p=211"},"modified":"2008-02-22T06:20:25","modified_gmt":"2008-02-22T11:20:25","slug":"affiliate-flouting-ppc-brand-bidding-rules-again-and-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.affiliateprogramadvice.com\/index.php\/2007\/06\/29\/affiliate-flouting-ppc-brand-bidding-rules-again-and-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Affiliate Flouting PPC brand bidding rules again and again"},"content":{"rendered":"

What is the point in trying to build up a good name for the industry to portray it in a professional light when some affiliates persistently flout the ppc rules over and over again.<\/span>How many blog post will it take before something is done. We all know it happens, we all know who does this, so why are we still here discussing the same old boring time consuming rubbish<\/strong>.<\/span>
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\nWell I for one have had enough and if you are caught bidding on my client\u2019s names when you have already been asked once by ourselves and told not to by the affiliate network, sorry all your commissions will be removed, and it starts today! Excuses like “I did not know…Oh its google’s fault…you people are all so thick you can’t possibly know what Im doing…ahh the network will just give me a slapped wrist and Ill be told not to do it again.”<\/span>If kicking repeat offenders out of the program and removing commissions is the only way to stop what is effectively ruining our industry and providing fuel for doubting Thomas\u2019s out there then taking such harsh measures maybe the only way forward. If you have not listened to the merchant or affiliate network when they have asked you nicely, politely to cease bidding on the merchants name, where there are clear terms and conditions<\/strong>, then so be it.<\/p>\n

If you are one of these affiliates (and its not like we don\u2019t know who you are ), you are really damaging our industry and has made this the focal point of every single merchant doing PPC with an affiliate program. Your short term financial gain has long term financial implications on all of us, hey it’s not just about YOU<\/strong>! Decisions are being made and have been made by merchants with regards to allowing affiliates to do PPC on their behalf. If you want a total outright ban on affiliates doing PPC in this industry, period… then keep going but… that means your revenue has just dried up too.<\/p>\n

I want other networks who just like affiliatewindow.com and like POR to stand up and say, we are watching the repeat offenders and we are not afraid to kick them out, if other networks took tougher measures on persistent offenders, we can clean this whole thing up over night. Im serious too\u2026 just takes one cull on repeat offenders and the industry can move on another level.
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What is the point in trying to build up a good name for the industry to portray it in a professional light when some affiliates persistently flout the ppc rules over and over again.How many blog post will it take before something is done. We all know it happens, we all know who does this, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[182],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.affiliateprogramadvice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.affiliateprogramadvice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.affiliateprogramadvice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.affiliateprogramadvice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.affiliateprogramadvice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.affiliateprogramadvice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.affiliateprogramadvice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.affiliateprogramadvice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.affiliateprogramadvice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}