Comments on: Trademark Poaching - Who’s Stealing Your Holiday Commissions? http://www.affconnect.com/affiliate-marketing/trademark-poaching-whos-stealing-your-holiday-commissions/ Affiliate & Web Marketing Stuff Thu, 21 Aug 2008 02:40:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.2 By: Kathy http://www.affconnect.com/affiliate-marketing/trademark-poaching-whos-stealing-your-holiday-commissions/#comment-212 Kathy Sat, 29 Mar 2008 18:49:42 +0000 http://www.affconnect.com/affiliate-marketing/trademark-poaching-whos-stealing-your-holiday-commissions/#comment-212 Had taken a quick peek at this after it was mentioned in one of the threads but didn't get time til now to look more at it.. really is eye opening. After reading about it I've done some searches on my own and found quite a few, too. Really is pretty demoralizing that this is tolerated so much. Hard to imagine but guess a lot of the merchants just don't really pay much attention either or they'd realize this can't be good for their business. Don't know about any of the others but Kim from 4checks did just send out a revised terms the other day not allowing it. Think I know the answer but even if the merchant or affiliate manager does allow the bidding on their domain name.....that's not a good thing for another affiliate is it? I've had some merchants where I've gotten an awful lot of searches for relevant terms for them and clicks but not many purchases. This could possibly explain that what meagain mentioned in their post. (about looking then going back to find the link and it being one of them) Thanks for researching this. Gonna subscribe to the feed so I don't forget about this. lol :) Had taken a quick peek at this after it was mentioned in one of the threads but didn’t get time til now to look more at it.. really is eye opening. After reading about it I’ve done some searches on my own and found quite a few, too. Really is pretty demoralizing that this is tolerated so much.

Hard to imagine but guess a lot of the merchants just don’t really pay much attention either or they’d realize this can’t be good for their business.

Don’t know about any of the others but Kim from 4checks did just send out a revised terms the other day not allowing it.

Think I know the answer but even if the merchant or affiliate manager does allow the bidding on their domain name…..that’s not a good thing for another affiliate is it? I’ve had some merchants where I’ve gotten an awful lot of searches for relevant terms for them and clicks but not many purchases. This could possibly explain that what meagain mentioned in their post. (about looking then going back to find the link and it being one of them)

Thanks for researching this. Gonna subscribe to the feed so I don’t forget about this. lol :)

]]> By: meagain http://www.affconnect.com/affiliate-marketing/trademark-poaching-whos-stealing-your-holiday-commissions/#comment-121 meagain Tue, 08 Jan 2008 04:07:20 +0000 http://www.affconnect.com/affiliate-marketing/trademark-poaching-whos-stealing-your-holiday-commissions/#comment-121 As long as AMs defend and encourage the activity and it is not policed by the merchants or the networks you will see those kinds of results. Several on that list were formerly on my sites. An affiliate has to wonder when they are promoting a merchant/merchants that match their traffic very highly, and receive lots of clicks and month after month of zero sales. Some items are impulse purchases and people will just click and buy - but many items are "just shopping" type products so that when they do make a BUY decision they would need to remember where they saw that link before; or else just google it. Bye-bye commish. BTW I see the Land of Nod up there - who needs Trademark Poachers when you've got Upromise? My Bambino was converting very well for me until all of a sudden sales went into a black hole. More clickthroughs than ever, but not one sale. Took a look and sure enough justjewelrysavings.com/mybambino.html. I contacted the merchant originally because McAfee had him redlisted but when I saw the poaching I just took down all the pages and quit the program. Maybe he followed the link I sent to educate him, maybe he just wised up? Until all parties see the damage done it will continue. Makes it hard to find merchants to work with though. As long as AMs defend and encourage the activity and it is not policed by the merchants or the networks you will see those kinds of results. Several on that list were formerly on my sites. An affiliate has to wonder when they are promoting a merchant/merchants that match their traffic very highly, and receive lots of clicks and month after month of zero sales.
Some items are impulse purchases and people will just click and buy - but many items are “just shopping” type products so that when they do make a BUY decision they would need to remember where they saw that link before; or else just google it. Bye-bye commish. BTW I see the Land of Nod up there - who needs Trademark Poachers when you’ve got Upromise? My Bambino was converting very well for me until all of a sudden sales went into a black hole. More clickthroughs than ever, but not one sale. Took a look and sure enough justjewelrysavings.com/mybambino.html. I contacted the merchant originally because McAfee had him redlisted but when I saw the poaching I just took down all the pages and quit the program. Maybe he followed the link I sent to educate him, maybe he just wised up? Until all parties see the damage done it will continue. Makes it hard to find merchants to work with though.

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