Comments on: MediaTrust: All About the FTC and More… http://www.ianfernando.com/2009/mediatrust-all-about-the-ftc-and-more/ Affiliate, Entrepreneur, Traveler, Pimp Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:53:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Inchirieri Auto http://www.ianfernando.com/2009/mediatrust-all-about-the-ftc-and-more/#comment-5407 Inchirieri Auto Thu, 23 Apr 2009 13:48:44 +0000 http://www.ianfernando.com/?p=1037#comment-5407 Thanks for the great post! :) Thanks for the great post! :)

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]]> By: Collin - Affiliate Marketing http://www.ianfernando.com/2009/mediatrust-all-about-the-ftc-and-more/#comment-5023 Collin - Affiliate Marketing Thu, 12 Mar 2009 16:46:58 +0000 http://www.ianfernando.com/?p=1037#comment-5023 Ian + Media Trust The way for the affiliate networks to track where leads are coming from for fraud reasons and for quality assurance reasons would be to make a double link system in there network. Let me explain When you grab the acai offer advaliant has you would get the affiliate link for the offer, like normal.If it is cloaked and redirected - whatever, affiliates have to protect there leads which I understand. But there would also be a separate tracking link from the network that has to go onto your site (like a landing page tracking link from Prosper) that HAS to be un altered so that the network alone (not the advertiser) can see where the leads are coming from and what the site is saying about the offer. This way - the affiliates that are falsely promoting an offer will get caught and leads removed and removed from the campaign also. The reason why Acai from what I can tell got as big as it did was because of all the BS marketing tactics that were used to promote the offer and nothing was done to stop it, where certain affiliates were telling there traffic they could lose 60 pounds in one month.Ya, those guys made a shit load of cash (50k per day) but they also killed an industry that should of lasted a lot longer then it has and also are responsible for all the red flags that went up. The free trial industry has been around a lot longer then the acai offers have been. Also, it is not just acai offers that need to be looked at - almost all weight loss offers operate in the same manner. So, if there are rules in place for acai offers - they have to apply to all the weight loss offers. Ian + Media Trust

The way for the affiliate networks to track where leads are coming from for fraud reasons and for quality assurance reasons would be to make a double link system in there network.

Let me explain

When you grab the acai offer advaliant has you would get the affiliate link for the offer, like normal.If it is cloaked and redirected – whatever, affiliates have to protect there leads which I understand. But there would also be a separate tracking link from the network that has to go onto your site (like a landing page tracking link from Prosper) that HAS to be un altered so that the network alone (not the advertiser) can see where the leads are coming from and what the site is saying about the offer. This way – the affiliates that are falsely promoting an offer will get caught and leads removed and removed from the campaign also.

The reason why Acai from what I can tell got as big as it did was because of all the BS marketing tactics that were used to promote the offer and nothing was done to stop it, where certain affiliates were telling there traffic they could lose 60 pounds in one month.Ya, those guys made a shit load of cash (50k per day) but they also killed an industry that should of lasted a lot longer then it has and also are responsible for all the red flags that went up. The free trial industry has been around a lot longer then the acai offers have been.

Also, it is not just acai offers that need to be looked at – almost all weight loss offers operate in the same manner. So, if there are rules in place for acai offers – they have to apply to all the weight loss offers.

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