FireFox and Google Chrome Hates Affiliate Offers

By Ian, February 9, 2010

Yesterday I was working some affiliate landers and when it came to inserting and importing affiliate links, I found an issue. FireFox and Google Chrome hates affiliate offers.

How do I know this? Simple they specifically told me, or gave me a warning. When I started logging into networks to check out the offer lps. While some brought me to the offer one in particular brought me to an Untrusted license.

This error brought a curious attention to me as it was my first time seeing it from an affiliate offer. Below, is a FireFox window stating the website is untrusted. This tells me it might be a license issue, I viewed the license and then I can be on my way to see the offer LP.

Then I thought, what about the end user? What if they clicked on my link? So I took my link and see maybe if it was just the preview link within the network dashboard, nope still same results.

I then decided to try out Google Chrome, I got the same result. Below is the screenshot I took of the error. It is bold in red and that can definitely deter leads away from your offer and kill your conversion. Now this isn’t good, it brings me and the end user to this type of error page within FireFox and Chrome.

Something small or big like this can definitely hurt your affiliate income. You need to check your offers and test them out making sure they are working.

If you are getting an error like this ‘let your network know’ and see if there is an issue with the advertiser.

I then checked with IE and IE simply just shutdown, it closed itself. So I am not sure if that is normal for IE. But again if I am experiencing it then your traffic will also be experiencing it. So you need to think to yourself if this will be a beneficial offer to promote.

Knowing me, I look at the type of demographics within my prosper202. Most of the users I get are Chrome and FireFox users. So I do not think this will be a good offer to promote. Especially if this error is prompt to them. Even if I do get some IE users, it will close on them. I haven’t checked Safari or other browsers but I think this is enough for me to not promote the offer.

Small things like this can stop you from making money, make sure to check the offer landing page, test out your own affiliate link, make sure you tell your network on this offer. If they already have not found an issue with it.

Which brings me to…

I think should be the networks responsibility to make sure they have validated advertisers on their network. If they got offers that cause this ‘untrusted’ license or site or is flagged then the network should know how to handle the advertiser. I do not think it is our responsibility. If I see a poor offer I just ignore it and … on to the next one!

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the offer was probably using a self signed SSL cert rather then a 3rd party one. If the advertiser cant afford a quality SSL cert you are probably better off staying away from them.
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Well your post headline baited me in… but that looks like a simple ssl cert configuration issue on the advertiser’s website. Not a vast anti affiliate conpiracy.

I agree the network should catch these types of things. As you and others cannot stress enough — test your links.
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I’ve seen this issue on quite a few occasions lately. I think it’s just down to shoddy SSL Certification configs on the admin side of things. On a lighter note, knowing IE, it probably didn’t need a reason to shut down randomly.

Till then,

Jean
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is this only happen when using google chrome and firefox? firefox and google chrome should must announce this thing so the user doesn’t know about this not ending in confuse.should more careful when get affiliate offer anyway.
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I agree the network should catch these types of things. As you and others cannot stress enough — test your links.
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Good link baiting title Ian. Of course it is a misleading as it sounds like the way IE deals with it is even worse. Personally I’d prefer a warning instead of the browser automatically shutting down.
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Problem is caused from SSL.Already i think firefox is better than chrome that i use firefox.
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Uh, it’s called cookiepie it’s an addon for firefox, allowing you to keep the same session cookies, so you’d only need to keep two tabs open, one for your band profile and one for your other profile.
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I personally prefer Firefox, because I find it the easiest to use, the easiest to customize and the best for display purposes. However, it is also bulky, occasionally buggy and has some irritating features.
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yes i am also getting this msg nowa days even if i visit gmail.
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Wow – thats amazing. I found something strange the other day….I was trying to login to my AdSense account using IE and got a popup saying the sites security certificate wasnt valid…any idea what this is all about?
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I agree the network should catch these types of things. yes i am also getting this msg nowa days even if i visit gmail.
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I still need to install Google Chrome. I wasn’t sure how well it worked on a MacBook Pro. I’m so tired of every browser working differently while trying to design websites.
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I think the title of this post should be ‘Internet Explorer Hates Affiliate Offers’. You’re more likely to lose a sale when a browser shuts down instead of just giving a warning. I think a lot of people ignore these kinds of warnings anyway.
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This could definitely prove detrimental to your conversion rate. How do you fix this?
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hmmm is this really true? because i currently run on firefox and was thinking of running affiliate marketing through that however reading this post it has made me think is it really worth it?
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I agree the network should catch these types of things. yes i am also getting this msg nowa days even if i visit gmail.
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I agree with Seo, it is belongs to SSL..
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SSL often creates problem for the surfers as well as for the advertisers.
Upgrading it and changing the algorithm a bit may help.
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I too believe that ssl is the reason.!
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This is a piece of good information that I have not heard of previously. Shall check out all of my offers.
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wow I really have to look into my sites to make sure nothing like that is going on with them…thanks for the post
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I’ve had the same message a few times myself on affiliate offers. But yea like most people said it has generally been more IE than FF or Chrome.
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I think most big brands and companies will always hate affiliates, because the way we market is completely foreign to the way they market. No surprise, and ‘affiliate’ style of marketing is the one that actually produces results.
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