Yahoo! Search Marketing affiliate programme cuts commissions by 90%
I received this email a few hours ago from TradeDoubler:
Commission Update
Dear Kieron,
Thanks for your efforts in promoting Yahoo Search Marketing thus far.
Due to seasonality reasons and in line with our 2008 plan, we have had to reduce the commissions on our affiliate program to £5.
We appreciate that this might be an inconvenience in the short term and we appreciate your continued support. We will inform you of our quarter 4 plans and commission structure before the end of September.
This commission change will be in place from Monday 8th of September.
Please contact your account manager if you have any questions
Regards,
Yahoo! Search Marketing Team
Now I know a few blog owners promote Yahoo! and up until now, it’s been a good earner. But a 90% pay cut from £50 to £5? Wow that’s a heavy hit to take.
The email is kind of vague as to whether this is a permanent cut or something just short terms so we’ll just wait to see I guess. I’ve emailed TradeDoubler and Profero (Yahoo’s agency) for clarification and will post it here when I get it.
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Thursday, September 4th, 2008 at 5:36 pm and is filed under Affiliate Marketing, Affiliate Networks, Affiliate Programs. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
Welcome to my blog. My name is Kieron Donoghue and I run UK Offer Media Ltd. I thought it would be fun to post a daily (well hopefully daily) blog, writing about my experiences in Internet Marketing and more specifically Affiliate Marketing. I'll include some personal stuff too, probably about my other passions, music and cars. Please feel free to post your comments and thoughts too.
September 4th, 2008 at 8:13 pm
It is actually a 90% cut :p
September 4th, 2008 at 9:02 pm
Hi keiron
Long time reader, first time poster here.
I push this programe for yahoo and it’s been quite good for me. I also got this mailing and was pretty shocked, my links, pages and banners will be removed as a matter of course.
Shame the big G doesn’t do an add prog.
Ps pls excuse spull midtakes - on mobile and red wine!
September 5th, 2008 at 8:53 am
Is this a sign of the credit-crunch or of Yahoo’s failing revenues I wonder? Tbh I didn’t even know that they ran this program, too late now though, lol.
September 5th, 2008 at 5:54 pm
It is a massive decrease - doubt they would reduce salary by internal staff by 0.9% nevermind 90%.
Is there not a similar program on CJ?
Just checked there and no commission reductions.
September 5th, 2008 at 7:28 pm
What exactly is the programme? What does the user have to do for you to get the commission?
September 5th, 2008 at 8:15 pm
“doubt they would reduce salary by internal staff by 0.9% nevermind 90%”
Is that what affiliates are then, external staff? Sub-contractors?
I prefer to think of you as barrow boys
September 9th, 2008 at 1:40 pm
That is indeed a huge cut!
September 10th, 2008 at 8:38 am
I got this e-mail also, they’ll be coming off my site in due course. I could even have understood 50% reduction as £25 would still be a good CPA. But taking it down to £5? Ludicrous!
September 14th, 2008 at 9:14 pm
Arg!…
That is a huge reduction. Typical, as I was doing reasonable well with it!