I Know I Won't Win, But ...
I'd just like to congratulate either Jason or Kirsty on winning the best "affiliate marketing blog of 2008" at the awards tomorrow - which I won't be able to attend.
I suppose I've got as much chance of winning as the brand-bidders opening up their books for us all to see - but if I do ... Shut it! You won't!
Anyways, I've been doing some nice analysis of the brand bidders and its interesting to see that its not always the "usual suspects" that are doing all the bidding. There's a few "unusual suspects" too!
For instance, I thought BBC Shop had no brand bidding?!? But it doesn't stop "bargaincube" bidding via buy.at. or Ming Xiong bidding on American Express using TD links. I suppose it also doesn't stop Jason Tassie bidding on the Co-op Current Account brand with know-your-current-accounts.co.uk or Keir McConomy from Spear.co.uk bidding on Angels Dancy Dress with angelsfancydress.com - I suppose he must be allowed to!! Yes he is apparenlty!! I´m going to get me a nice domain to market them on ' easy money!
Would it be a good idea for merchants to publish the details of authorised bidders so people like me don't think the worst when some affiliates are allowed to bid? Wouldn't this be a nice bit of openness and transparency? [I just remembered the fantastic "Brand Watcher"!! Take a peak - Shane and his team have put a lot of hard work into this little bit of kit!]
p.s. if anyone wants a load of sky keywords here a sample, and you can download them here, they obviously need some cleaning out:
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2 Comments:
Wow, truly you are the inspector Poirot of affiliate land! I hope you have a great holiday, and thanks for mentioning my name as a potential winner... I'm happy enough just with the nomination! Good luck to Jason too ;)
Hi Lee,
FancyDress.com is one of our programmes and whilst I'm not a fan of brand bidding you might want to take a look at the terms and conditions of this programme and update your post as the affiliate in questions is not doing anything wrong.
When setting up the programme it was felt that due to the generic nature of "Fancy Dress" as a brand or even people looking for an Angel fancy dress costume that it was not sensible to restrict these terms to affiliates.
It's a similar situation with another of our clients buycosmetics.com and the search term "buy cosmetics"
Cheers
Paul
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