FT.com / Media - Bloggers up in arms over Huffington Post takeover
- [ Traducir esta página ]7 Feb 2011 ... Bloggers up in arms over Huffington Post takeover. By David Gelles in New York and Matthew Garrahan in Los Angeles ...www.ft.com/cms/s/0/aa48e2ee-32f4-11e0-9a61-00144feabdc0.html
Also affiliate programs are exploiting you. Affiliate managers are paid good salaries. They send their affiliates emails asking them to update - remove links, remove banners, place new banners, place new links.
This all takes time.
Some programs do send you the deeplinks with your affiliate numbers embedded such us Shop and Save on Outdoor Living at Walmart.com!
But these are in the minority. We have written to to networks asking for the deeplinks but more than often these letters are ignored (note merchants) so we will not publish on principal. You will now pay for our time. For us to log into one network Tradedoubler it takes us 10 minutes before we can log in with our username/password and a further 10 minutes for the page to load before we can get the links and the banners - say 30 minutes to replace banners and links - what is this time worth?
One merchants on this network did not pay our commision. Family stayed at an Accor Hotel in Madrid many years ago, making his reservation via our link. We have never been paid our commission to date!
How do we know that our sales are being honestly reported. The tracking could only be for impressions and clicks - not tracking through to the point of sales.
Much is written about the amout of advertising increasing in percentage terms on the internet but affiliates to not see anyt of it
YOU ARE BEING EXPLOITED.
Back to the Huffington Post. If it can be prooved beyond all reasonable doubt that the people writing for it were deceived, does it not become a case of fraud?
