Lesson In Life: Remove The Weakest Links

I'm a lazy git. I'll do what ever's easiest when it comes to my affiliate stuff as I'm just so busy with client work. As part of that laziness I'd use the ShopWindow from Affiliate Window to find products and deep link. I wasn't that lazy as I worked out a way to include tracking codes into it to give the product details etc. After spending some time doing this I "reverted to type" and started to irregularly check my affiliate emails - preferring instead to use them to find product info etc.

Big mistake! I've missed all of these "Less than 10% of Shop Window quota remaining for account" emails and now the tool that I use for a good proportion of my deep-linking is down, kapput, with no sign of life.

soap_error Object ( [sCode] => ns1:Client.LIMIT_1 [sString] => Insufficient Quota [sDetails] => getMerchant: You have used all your operations quota )
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soap_error Object ( [sCode] => ns1:Client.LIMIT_1 [sString] => Insufficient Quota [sDetails] => getMerchant: You have used all your operations quota )
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I'm glad I started using Short URL to track deep links and merchant category pages, but its still going to be a pain in the arse waiting for the Shop Window quota to reset.

So a quick tip: When you're in Affiliate mode, ensure that you try and cut out as many weak links, or opportunity for failure as possible. Get yourself a decent deeplinking / link-cloaking tool and try and find a productive way of sifting the important emails from the unimportant ones.

p.s. my fecking hosting company won't even let me upload a robots.txt to prevent the bots from crawling the shopwindow site - fecking great!

Wednesday morning affiliate FAIL!

Update: George has refreshed it. I need to get my arse in gear big time on it!