Comments on: Beware Free Merchant Domains http://netprofitstoday.com/blog/beware-free-merchant-domains/ Author of the best-selling affiliate marketing training book shares free money-making affiliate tips. Tue, 22 May 2012 05:31:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Karen Cioffi-Ventrice http://netprofitstoday.com/blog/beware-free-merchant-domains/comment-page-1/#comment-91108 Karen Cioffi-Ventrice Fri, 01 May 2009 19:39:46 +0000 http://www.netprofitstoday.com/blog/?p=2559#comment-91108 Thanks for all the tips, Ros. Karen Cioffi Thanks for all the tips, Ros.

Karen Cioffi

]]> By: Rosalind Gardner http://netprofitstoday.com/blog/beware-free-merchant-domains/comment-page-1/#comment-90993 Rosalind Gardner Thu, 30 Apr 2009 02:45:53 +0000 http://www.netprofitstoday.com/blog/?p=2559#comment-90993 Hi James, I wasn't offended by your comment... but knowing me, my answer was perhaps a bit too brusque. Apologies. :-) Cheers, Ros Hi James,

I wasn’t offended by your comment… but knowing me, my answer was perhaps a bit too brusque. Apologies. :-)

Cheers,
Ros

]]> By: Rosalind Gardner http://netprofitstoday.com/blog/beware-free-merchant-domains/comment-page-1/#comment-90991 Rosalind Gardner Thu, 30 Apr 2009 02:42:11 +0000 http://www.netprofitstoday.com/blog/?p=2559#comment-90991 Hi Jake, The link worked initially through the free domain and if I code it myself now, it also works. So, no mistake... just stupidity. Cheers, Ros Hi Jake,

The link worked initially through the free domain and if I code it myself now, it also works. So, no mistake… just stupidity.

Cheers,
Ros

]]> By: Jake http://netprofitstoday.com/blog/beware-free-merchant-domains/comment-page-1/#comment-90981 Jake Thu, 30 Apr 2009 00:04:19 +0000 http://www.netprofitstoday.com/blog/?p=2559#comment-90981 Ros, how do we know it wasn't a clerical/programming error by the merchant (that they'd possibly be willing to reimburse via a make-good)? Or, could it be the result of some kind of increased security measures by ClickBank? Just wondering. -Jake Ros, how do we know it wasn’t a clerical/programming error by the merchant (that they’d possibly be willing to reimburse via a make-good)? Or, could it be the result of some kind of increased security measures by ClickBank?

Just wondering.

-Jake

]]> By: Rosalind Gardner http://netprofitstoday.com/blog/beware-free-merchant-domains/comment-page-1/#comment-90975 Rosalind Gardner Wed, 29 Apr 2009 22:32:34 +0000 http://www.netprofitstoday.com/blog/?p=2559#comment-90975 Liani, This only happened because the merchant had set me up with a free domain that they had coded with my affiliate link. This won't happen if you code your own links on your own site. Cheers, Ros Liani,

This only happened because the merchant had set me up with a free domain that they had coded with my affiliate link. This won’t happen if you code your own links on your own site.

Cheers,
Ros

]]> By: liani http://netprofitstoday.com/blog/beware-free-merchant-domains/comment-page-1/#comment-90965 liani Wed, 29 Apr 2009 20:34:05 +0000 http://www.netprofitstoday.com/blog/?p=2559#comment-90965 Hi Ros, Is all the clickbank products like that? I never check on my affiliate clickbank products code. Maybe that's why I never generate commissions. Thanks for sharing this Hi Ros,

Is all the clickbank products like that? I never check on my affiliate clickbank products code. Maybe that’s why I never generate commissions.

Thanks for sharing this

]]> By: Rosalind Gardner http://netprofitstoday.com/blog/beware-free-merchant-domains/comment-page-1/#comment-90963 Rosalind Gardner Wed, 29 Apr 2009 20:12:49 +0000 http://www.netprofitstoday.com/blog/?p=2559#comment-90963 Reply to Vincent, Vern and others who want me to 'rat out' the merchant in question. There is absolutely NO need to do so when the answer to the problem is easy (and spelled out in the post above)... Don't accept free merchant domains. Code your own redirects. Hope that helps! Cheers, Ros Reply to Vincent, Vern and others who want me to ‘rat out’ the merchant in question.

There is absolutely NO need to do so when the answer to the problem is easy (and spelled out in the post above)…

Don’t accept free merchant domains. Code your own redirects.

Hope that helps!

Cheers,
Ros

]]> By: leange010 http://netprofitstoday.com/blog/beware-free-merchant-domains/comment-page-1/#comment-90918 leange010 Wed, 29 Apr 2009 10:55:55 +0000 http://www.netprofitstoday.com/blog/?p=2559#comment-90918 I just started affiliate program on click bank & I was just searching about this on internet & I read your article. It will help me a lot in future. Thanks for the article. I just started affiliate program on click bank & I was just searching about this on internet & I read your article. It will help me a lot in future. Thanks for the article.

]]> By: Vern Brown http://netprofitstoday.com/blog/beware-free-merchant-domains/comment-page-1/#comment-90895 Vern Brown Wed, 29 Apr 2009 07:58:59 +0000 http://www.netprofitstoday.com/blog/?p=2559#comment-90895 I tend to agree with Vincent. I think it is our responsibility to let other [in this case] Affiliates know who we're up against. This may have been happening [on purpose, or otherwise] for some time. It would be nice to be able to check for ourselves... I tend to agree with Vincent. I think it is our responsibility to let other [in this case] Affiliates know who we’re up against. This may have been happening [on purpose, or otherwise] for some time. It would be nice to be able to check for ourselves…

]]> By: Digital Products http://netprofitstoday.com/blog/beware-free-merchant-domains/comment-page-1/#comment-90883 Digital Products Wed, 29 Apr 2009 05:39:30 +0000 http://www.netprofitstoday.com/blog/?p=2559#comment-90883 When I was a newbie (still a newbie but very much wiser), my websites were full of links and animated banners but earning nothing despite getting more than 15,000 unique hits per day. One of my sites was a 4,500-page directory of best websites. Since many of the affiliate links (dofollow) vanished for various reasons, it was penalized by the SEs because of too many dead links. It was among the top 3 on page 1 of Google for the keyword of "best websites" between 2001 and 2005 and ranked among the top 100,000 sites by alexa.com. Now I have lost interest to check its ranking. Probably beyond Planet Jupiter. Later some of the banners were imitating adsense ads. Via an email in 2006, Google Ads said good bye and no longer sending monthly checks (averaging $2,000/month). Since I was not getting anything, I had deleted almost 99% of its webpages. I suggest you write on the wall: "Unless you’ve worked with a merchant successfully for a long time, stay away from their offers of free domains. It’s simple enough to code your own redirect and you won’t have to worry that they’ll scam you by changing out your links." Rosalind Gardner When I was a newbie (still a newbie but very much wiser), my websites were full of links and animated banners but earning nothing despite getting more than 15,000 unique hits per day.

One of my sites was a 4,500-page directory of best websites. Since many of the affiliate links (dofollow) vanished for various reasons, it was penalized by the SEs because of too many dead links. It was among the top 3 on page 1 of Google for the keyword of “best websites” between 2001 and 2005 and ranked among the top 100,000 sites by alexa.com. Now I have lost interest to check its ranking. Probably beyond Planet Jupiter.

Later some of the banners were imitating adsense ads. Via an email in 2006, Google Ads said good bye and no longer sending monthly checks (averaging $2,000/month).

Since I was not getting anything, I had deleted almost 99% of its webpages.

I suggest you write on the wall:

“Unless you’ve worked with a merchant successfully for a long time, stay away from their offers of free domains. It’s simple enough to code your own redirect and you won’t have to worry that they’ll scam you by changing out your links.” Rosalind Gardner

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