Response from Text Link Ads about TinyURL
August 24, 2007 · Print Post · Bookmark post
Here is the update to my post about TLA using TinyURL as a new affiliate link. Brock Boser took care of my email and here is the response he gave me. If you looked at his first email (scroll to the bottom), the response was very poor so I pushed to get a better answer. Still, this response is poor, but I guess they can not disclose anything. Please see below.
Ian, sorry I cannot get too technical. Basically we cannot use the TLA domain anymore for affiliate links.
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Brock Boser
Inventory Manager
Text-Link-Ads
a MediaWhiz Holdings, Inc. Company
—–Original Message—–
From: Ian: CentralServ: Mobile
Sent: Friday, August 24, 2007 1:40 PM
To: Support - Text Link Ads
Subject: RE: Text Link Ads Inc. Online Contact Form - Other
Thanks for your quick response. How may I ask will this save network as al tinyurl does is just hides the link. The actual affiliate link is behind the tiny url for redirection. My assumption is the actual link is still on TLA just hidden.
Please peovide a broader respone.
Sent from my BlackJack: Please Excuse Typos
—–Original Message—–
From: “Support - Text Link Ads”
To:
Sent: 8/24/2007 12:05 PM
Subject: RE: Text Link Ads Inc. Online Contact Form - Other
Ian, this is done to save our network.
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Brock Boser
Inventory Manager
Text-Link-Ads
a MediaWhiz Holdings, Inc. Company
I am assuming that they can not use their main TLA domain, but that still does not answer my question as tinyurl still redirects to the actual domain. Let’s see what happens in the next couple days as Brock does not want to disclose any information, which is understandable.
Do you know why TLA is using TinyURL? What is the conspiracy with Google and TLA? Why is there no specifics as to what is happening?
August 27th, 2007 2:48 pm
TLA appears to have heard the message. This is the email I got from them after trying to get clarification on the new tinyurl links:
“We are working on a better solution and will have it available next week. You do not need to make any changes.
Jonathan Dingman
Product Manager”
Yehuda
August 28th, 2007 10:09 am
> Simon
its not to shorten its trying to hide the links from google, that is what I am hearing and reading so far.
September 6th, 2007 8:53 pm
Yes, you and I know that. I just started off my own article with the official reasoning as it was then. Should have put it in inverted commas lol.
Interesting that they may be changing policy again though? (judging from the email in the 2nd comment)