Landing pages and Affiliate Managers

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I've heard some affiliate marketers talk about not letting your affiliate managers see your landing pages. So does anyone here not provide their landing page website url in their accounts?

Take neverblueads for example, in the account section you can add websites which are used to generate affiliate links. Do you add each new website you plan to use or just add one website and use different subid tracking to track each website / ad?

Also, does anyone here modify and use email creatives provided by an offer for their actual landing pages?
 


you only need one site in your account profile and that's when you sign up. you don't have to list every landing page you have in your account. use a site that you don't really mind if anybody sees. i've also used email creatives in landing pages.
 
I had a problem with a network tracking my landing page and advertising every place I was and out bidding me. Don't show them shit
 
BigWill said:
I had a problem with a network tracking my landing page and advertising every place I was and out bidding me. Don't show them shit
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What about referer strings. Do you guys cloak them? In other words, have landing page meta redirect to a php 301 script?

I had an offer that was doing ok but I hated the LP on it, so I made my own, bam skyrocket profits. The AM called me up over it, so I know they're watching... if they track referer fields, they can easily find my LP as it stands...
 
I usually run the design by them, but I don't see any reason to show them all of the domain names I run the LP on.

Copeac designs some nice LP's for me as well, but they never ask where I'm putting it, they just send me the design files :)
 
It really depends on the dynamics of your relationship with your network. In some cases, depending on the volume you're doing, you may NEED to show the site from which you are generating traffic (or at least the site you're willing to say is generating the traffic).

Will networks fuck you over? Not likely, but it happens often enough. Let's say you're doing an impressive amount amount of traffic / profit with a network and then jump ship to another network offering you a higher payout. You think your (ex) affiliate manger is going to just let that extra money out the door? Hell no. They are going to call their best affiliate and clue them in on what's hot. I've seen it happen many times.

Personally, I try to be as transparent as possible, but that's just me. I don't build thin landing pages though, I tend to build full, content-rich sites, so even people that wanted to copy me couldn't.
 
CPA storm wouldn't let me even view offers without giving them all of the URLs i intended to promote with. Im not even talking payouts, they wouldnt tell me what they have to offer without me giving up my valuable business secrets.

I think its BS to make us give up LPs unless we are actively promoting an offer and the manager needs to make sure our LP is up to TOS.
 
KunkVentures said:
CPA storm wouldn't let me even view offers without giving them all of the URLs i intended to promote with. Im not even talking payouts, they wouldnt tell me what they have to offer without me giving up my valuable business secrets.

I think its BS to make us give up LPs unless we are actively promoting an offer and the manager needs to make sure our LP is up to TOS.
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haha yeah, same here. They wanted all I owned actually. Because I use domain privacy.
 
goddfadda said:
What about referer strings. Do you guys cloak them? In other words, have landing page meta redirect to a php 301 script?

I had an offer that was doing ok but I hated the LP on it, so I made my own, bam skyrocket profits. The AM called me up over it, so I know they're watching... if they track referer fields, they can easily find my LP as it stands...
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Im just curious why you would meta-refresh to a php301.. overkill?

Anyways-
Link to offer = mysite(.)com/offer.html

offer.html meta redirects to the actual offer page, scrubbing the referrer, and everything is hunky dorey
 
Demon said:
I've heard some affiliate marketers talk about not letting your affiliate managers see your landing pages. So does anyone here not provide their landing page website url in their accounts?

Take neverblueads for example, in the account section you can add websites which are used to generate affiliate links. Do you add each new website you plan to use or just add one website and use different subid tracking to track each website / ad?
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I just got accepted by Neverblue. I gave them an old blog that I don't really use anymore. I told them I do mostly PPC. I got accepted. They didn't even look at my website. I think as long as you enter one site, that is ok.
 
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