For those of you running offers on Lead Impact, you should know that if the offer page gets hacked and starts dropping trojans, you'll have your account banned from Lead Impact.
To be fair, I'm not exactly sure what happened. I was direct linking an offer, and the landing page just started dropping trojans. So it could have been a number of things, the advertiser himself could have switched the page, they could have been hacked, or the network could have just sent the user to a trojaned page.
Can't recreate it now, since it was fixed on the advertiser end after a few hours. Unfortunately for me, I added new keywords, so it got reviewed during this period...and boom account deleted.
And they have a zero tolerance policy for trojans. So account got banned, no questions asked.
I even offered to only run offers through a landing page, but they said no...since the user would still be able to click through to a potential trojaned page. And ditto, after I offered to just use it to collect emails, so no offers would even be part of the equation.
Spend wise, I was spending $2-3K/mo with them...and even that didn't get me any extra consideration. Granted it's not a lot...but still, this wasn't a $100/mo account either.
It's just a policy that they can't do anything about(they did say that they understood that it wasn't my fault, but they still had to do it).
On the plus side, they did refund me my remaining balance, and offered to send me any reports I asked for(i.e. an excel file with all my campaigns/keywords, ad spend for the month etc).
So if you are doing affiliate marketing using LeadImpact, think twice about whether or not it's worth the risk of losing all that time optimizing your campaigns for that network.
To be fair, I'm not exactly sure what happened. I was direct linking an offer, and the landing page just started dropping trojans. So it could have been a number of things, the advertiser himself could have switched the page, they could have been hacked, or the network could have just sent the user to a trojaned page.
Can't recreate it now, since it was fixed on the advertiser end after a few hours. Unfortunately for me, I added new keywords, so it got reviewed during this period...and boom account deleted.
And they have a zero tolerance policy for trojans. So account got banned, no questions asked.
I even offered to only run offers through a landing page, but they said no...since the user would still be able to click through to a potential trojaned page. And ditto, after I offered to just use it to collect emails, so no offers would even be part of the equation.
Spend wise, I was spending $2-3K/mo with them...and even that didn't get me any extra consideration. Granted it's not a lot...but still, this wasn't a $100/mo account either.
It's just a policy that they can't do anything about(they did say that they understood that it wasn't my fault, but they still had to do it).
On the plus side, they did refund me my remaining balance, and offered to send me any reports I asked for(i.e. an excel file with all my campaigns/keywords, ad spend for the month etc).
So if you are doing affiliate marketing using LeadImpact, think twice about whether or not it's worth the risk of losing all that time optimizing your campaigns for that network.
