Monthly Archives: February 2007

Phone numbers on merchant sites, how much commission are you losing out on?

Posted on February 28, 2007 by Kieron

Thanks to Richard for his comments in my last blog entry, I was going to reply in the comments section but thought it worthy of its very own blog post. This is what Richard had to say… “…but it’s interesting that you object to their phone number being so prominent. I understand why you object – you might lose commission if people who click through from your site phone to order rather than ordering online. But how many people are … Continue reading →

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Merchants, why don’t you keep your site up to date?

Posted on February 27, 2007 by Kieron

OK so I’m just updating some pages on my sites that promote flower merchants and I happen to click on the link to Ultimate Flowers. What do I see? Well as well as a very prominent phone number on the homepage I also see a huge ad urging me to “Order now in time for Valentines Day on February 14th” erm, its now February 27th. I can only conclude that they don’t care enough about their own business to update … Continue reading →

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Buy.at launch in the USA

Posted on February 27, 2007 by Kieron

It seems that Buy.at aren’t resting on their laurels as today sees the launch of their affiliate network in the USA. Its been great to see Buy.at really flourish in the UK throughout the 3 years or so that I’ve been using their network as an affiliate. They’ve gone from a small but reputable outfit in Newcastle to one of top three networks in the UK. They’ve gone from a handful of staff in a dingy cubby hole of an … Continue reading →

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Google AdWords Quality Score updates now live

Posted on February 22, 2007 by Kieron

Hold onto your wallets, Google are after our money again. Yes its time for another quality score update. The following is taken from the Google Inside AdWords blog today. “Last week, we released the Quality Score column and let you know that we would soon be making improvements to our Quality Score evaluation. Now, Avichal from the ads quality team is back with a quick update: Today, we began rolling out improvements to the Quality Score algorithm, which will update … Continue reading →

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Affiliate Window rant

Posted on February 20, 2007 by Kieron

Affiliate Window, I love you guys but this has got to stop. Every now and again when I try to log into Affiliate Window I get an *urgent* message that pops up and then stops me from logging into the system until I type “I CONFIRM” into a text box. Usually these messages are from merchants who have a change in their policies or commission structure. Now I’m all for communication from networks and merchants but this is just *too* … Continue reading →

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