IAmAllanShore

Originally Posted by -RJ-

It's cool we don't have to use the "Afill." designation on posts anymore and this should eliminate Adwords results that are all pointing to the same site with differente affiliate ids. One way I see people can profit from this change is to build one page mini-sites reviewing sites/products that include your affiliate link, and advertise that page in Adwords.

The part about dropping "aff" (Which is all we really had to use) is great, don't get me wrong. I know that every word and letter counts in AdWords.

However, this "change" really doesn't do too much good, as, because as you pointed out, all it takes is a change to linking to a page that is nothing but the same thing the user would see if they went straight to the program site.

I could just change all my under top 1 links to point to a cgi feed of amazon at http://www.publicdock.com/feed.cgi for example. Or more of a specialized site, for example http://www.benemptor.com . It doesn't really help the consumer, merely further cloaks the real source of the good being sold.

I have seen a drop in clicks the past 4 days (As I'm changing over to new type/formats of linked pages), but my conversion ratio is slightly up, but I attribute that partly to our getting further away from Xmas.

Anyhow, I'm not sold on it, and think it just makes more room (Incentive?) for abuse.

-Allan

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