Networks: How To Piss an Affiliate Off

I actually have been banned for exact same reasons.

So now when I am away or a sleep etc, I have my VA micromanage couple of offers like that on hourly basis.



Idea:

Not a developer, but is this possible?

Create a bot that visits my affiliate link on regular basis and if the offer has been changed then logs into PPV account and changes the url or pauses the campaign?

Second easier option would be , that it checks my aff offer and when sees that it has been redirected to something completely irrelevant, it notifies me via email or sms :P

Let us know if you can do it, I can put up some financing towards that and I am sure some others would as well, and lets make it free for WF users:)
 


FrontIE said:
I actually have been banned for exact same reasons.

So now when I am away or a sleep etc, I have my VA micromanage couple of offers like that on hourly basis.



Idea:

Not a developer, but is this possible?

Create a bot that visits my affiliate link on regular basis and if the offer has been changed then logs into PPV account and changes the url or pauses the campaign?

Second easier option would be , that it checks my aff offer and when sees that it has been redirected to something completely irrelevant, it notifies me via email or sms :P

Let us know if you can do it, I can put up some financing towards that and I am sure some others would as well, and lets make it free for WF users:)
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It wouldn't be that hard to code something like this. If somebody wants to pay $75-100 for something like this I could have it done pretty quickly.
 
Ive actually given this idea to a couple networks back in late 2008 back when colon and acai offers were capping left and right and they acted like it was something not worth doing. Glad to see them finally coming back to it.
 
FrontIE said:
I actually have been banned for exact same reasons.

So now when I am away or a sleep etc, I have my VA micromanage couple of offers like that on hourly basis.



Idea:

Not a developer, but is this possible?

Create a bot that visits my affiliate link on regular basis and if the offer has been changed then logs into PPV account and changes the url or pauses the campaign?

Second easier option would be , that it checks my aff offer and when sees that it has been redirected to something completely irrelevant, it notifies me via email or sms :P

Let us know if you can do it, I can put up some financing towards that and I am sure some others would as well, and lets make it free for WF users:)
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Better idea would be using your own redirect links to the offer, and if the offer is down then having you bot just change your end link, not the link on the ppv network.
 
The biggest problem with letting publishers select their own redirects is the possibility of you setting up an infinite loop. If the offer your running is set to redirect to another offer that was later taken down, or redirected itself you end up with the same issue and a possibility of going in a loop

We looked at this when developing the system and felt the user error would cause more issues than its worth. On our end we can set redirects by pub on offers your running already, if youre capping out on offers with us speak to your AM about setting you up with a redirect to an offer you want to be on.

Also with our system you have EPC alerts which is probably the best indicator of your offer being redirected, you can set a minimum EPC on an offer and if it goes below that EPC you instantly get an alert. This way you can catch a redirect quickly and make adjustments if needed.

We may revisit the setting your own redirects but it does come with potential problems if not managed properly by the publisher
 
mkrongel said:
The biggest problem with letting publishers select their own redirects is the possibility of you setting up an infinite loop. If the offer your running is set to redirect to another offer that was later taken down, or redirected itself you end up with the same issue and a possibility of going in a loop

We looked at this when developing the system and felt the user error would cause more issues than its worth. On our end we can set redirects by pub on offers your running already, if youre capping out on offers with us speak to your AM about setting you up with a redirect to an offer you want to be on.

Also with our system you have EPC alerts which is probably the best indicator of your offer being redirected, you can set a minimum EPC on an offer and if it goes below that EPC you instantly get an alert. This way you can catch a redirect quickly and make adjustments if needed.

We may revisit the setting your own redirects but it does come with potential problems if not managed properly by the publisher
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Mike, I understand your issue here. I think letting pubs set their redirects is positive because think of it like this:

A. You dont let the pub do the redirect and the offer is capped and you redirect to something else and it flops for them, they then in turn want to blame you for the redirect/shitty offer and possibly find a different offer/network to run that isnt capped.

B. You let the publisher do their own redirect and when the original offer is capped and it just so happens their redirect they set themselves is down/causes inifn loop, they have no one to blame but themselves.

Personally, I'd give them the option to redirect on their own and they take the fall if they didnt set it up right, but at least more attentive/more experienced affiliates can reap the benefits.
 
mkrongel said:
The biggest problem with letting publishers select their own redirects is the possibility of you setting up an infinite loop. If the offer your running is set to redirect to another offer that was later taken down, or redirected itself you end up with the same issue and a possibility of going in a loop

We looked at this when developing the system and felt the user error would cause more issues than its worth. On our end we can set redirects by pub on offers your running already, if youre capping out on offers with us speak to your AM about setting you up with a redirect to an offer you want to be on.

Also with our system you have EPC alerts which is probably the best indicator of your offer being redirected, you can set a minimum EPC on an offer and if it goes below that EPC you instantly get an alert. This way you can catch a redirect quickly and make adjustments if needed.

We may revisit the setting your own redirects but it does come with potential problems if not managed properly by the publisher
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In this situation could we just check a list of offers that you CAN redirect to if there's something wrong with my initial redirect?

If I'm doing a lead gen gaming offer I'll set my redirect to the 2nd best converting leadgen gaming offer, and then check off all the other lead gen offers you have as possible candidates for a network redirect (I'll pick offers that won't get me banned from my traffic source).

And if you somehow manage to lose all those offers at once, either let me send the traffic to an 'offer expired page' or a URL of my own choice.
 
eliquid said:
Better idea would be using your own redirect links to the offer, and if the offer is down then having you bot just change your end link, not the link on the ppv network.
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This is pretty standard. HTTP Ping fails on a page or fails to return a specified string, redirect to 2nd/3rd/4th performing LP/offer. All done on your side, not the networks. You can make it as complex or simple as your comfort level allows.

If you have 3-5 5K Facebook accounts all running with great histories, why fuck it up by sending traffic to adult traffic and taking the chance of losing the account?

Question you have to ask yourself is just how much perpetual testing are you doing!! ;>

Coding up a simple ping script is so simple even an artard like myself can do it.
 
you dont even need to code it up, there is a free ping service that also does string checking on the page ( forgot the name of it ). all you need to do is code up the backend for it.
 
For those that don't have their own fix for this, the NB interface does allow for offer specific redirects to be setup by affiliates when a cap is hit or the offer goes down. Just use the existing country redirect tool. However, you cannot set your own URL, you must select another NB offer or the “Offer unavailable” campaign #6776.

Simply go to the advanced tab of a specific offer, and then select the county redirect tab. There you can select the redirect you want that campaign to redirect to when the cap is hit. You can send all traffic by selecting all the countries or, on a per country basis->just select the county and set the specific redirect; you will have to do this for each country or group of countries accordingly.

The redirect you set will over-ride the global redirect we have set for that offer.

The tech team is analyzing a solution for custom URL redirects with our current redirect system.
 
androo said:
The tech team is analyzing a solution for custom URL redirects with our current redirect system.
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Tech can take a while to make a changes like this, so if you really want to redirect to a URL of your choosing, please ask your AM. It is still possible with our current system, just a bit more work.
 
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