Affiliate Ad brokers are those who find the affiliates and the advertisers and bring the togeather some examples are
- Commision Junction
- Commision Monster
*Note these are examples only.
In this post I refer to them as the “Ad provider”
What I hate is when a advertiser is disabled ie there campaign has end instead the ad are still running on your site and th ad provider redirects the traffic to ” Sorry the offer is now over” type pages, that’s ok but it would be nice to get and email saying so as well.
My recent experience was with a ad provider who owes me approx $7,000 is commision for last month decided to play hard ball on some the the finer Terms of Service and loopholes ad providers have.
No problem I’ll change to my backup Ad provider while it’s being sorted.
Login and my account is disabled due to inactivity, because I didn’t use my backup provider enough only on 1 blog they decided to cancl my account. Okay that’s not a problem, so I checked my one blog and the ad where still active, but hang on? My affiliate account is disabled yet they are still accepting my traffic?
Where’s the commisions and stats for that? (Gone!)
But wait I decided to search all my emails not one email from them saying my affiliate acount had been disabled.
So if then end I’m now abandoning all Ad providers and start my own advertising network with in excess of 5,240+ domains to advertise on I thought I’d start right here to see how it’s going to work.
Here’s what I did I found my top performing advertising and check there sites out to see if they host there own affiliate program cutting out the ad provider funny enough over 70% of them had there own affiliate program earning more than if I was to with the ad provider.
Now I’ve installed an open source advertising server called Openx and now categorised a few hundred domains to being testing the fantastic platform that allows me to work directly with advertisers.
If your interesting in Advertising please contact me at [email protected]
Isn’t it funny how if you seek an answer it reveals itself…
