Comments on: Affiliate Tactics – Disposable URLs and “Front” Websites http://blog.brandverity.com/422/affiliate-tactics-disposable-urls-and-front-websites/ Trademark Abuse Blog Mon, 12 Dec 2011 22:46:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: David Naffziger http://blog.brandverity.com/422/affiliate-tactics-disposable-urls-and-front-websites/#comment-12637 David Naffziger Wed, 12 Jan 2011 07:52:13 +0000 http://blog.brandverity.com/?p=422#comment-12637 Yes, the affiliate sends some free traffic to avoid detection. Our guess would be less than 1% of all of their traffic - the rules are typically very tightly defined. Yes, the affiliate sends some free traffic to avoid detection. Our guess would be less than 1% of all of their traffic – the rules are typically very tightly defined.

]]> By: johnny OPM http://blog.brandverity.com/422/affiliate-tactics-disposable-urls-and-front-websites/#comment-12556 johnny OPM Mon, 10 Jan 2011 22:35:21 +0000 http://blog.brandverity.com/?p=422#comment-12556 why would an affiliate send traffic to and pay for a direct link to the merchant with no affiliate link connected? Are you suggesting affiliates are sending free traffic to a merchant to avoid some sort of detection? They must be applying some sort of logic in the redirect and that logic must be wrong sometimes which results in sending the merchant free traffic. Can brand varity calculate this amount of free traffic to the merchant? why would an affiliate send traffic to and pay for a direct link to the merchant with no affiliate link connected? Are you suggesting affiliates are sending free traffic to a merchant to avoid some sort of detection? They must be applying some sort of logic in the redirect and that logic must be wrong sometimes which results in sending the merchant free traffic. Can brand varity calculate this amount of free traffic to the merchant?

]]> By: James Skelland http://blog.brandverity.com/422/affiliate-tactics-disposable-urls-and-front-websites/#comment-8984 James Skelland Wed, 15 Sep 2010 11:27:10 +0000 http://blog.brandverity.com/?p=422#comment-8984 Great article! We often come across a number of affiliates chancing their arm with clever redirectors from legitimate looking sites. When they fly under the radar so to speak, they are indeed difficult to catch, however, we are seeing an increasing number of affiliates using this method very lazily. One look at their stats (1000+ clicks a day), then a look at their referring site (a crappy single blog post from their “deals blog”), and it’s a no-brainer that they’re doing something dodgy. Great article!
We often come across a number of affiliates chancing their arm with clever redirectors from legitimate looking sites.

When they fly under the radar so to speak, they are indeed difficult to catch, however, we are seeing an increasing number of affiliates using this method very lazily. One look at their stats (1000+ clicks a day), then a look at their referring site (a crappy single blog post from their “deals blog”), and it’s a no-brainer that they’re doing something dodgy.

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