CJ Questioning my Traffic - what do I respond with?
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indexyoursite
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- Nov 19, 2008
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There are a lot of reasons for this to happen, merchant filling a report, cj randoms affiliate's sites review, but the usual reason is unormal trends in your numbers compare to the other affiliates that are running the same campaign, so watch out for ctr, engaging traffic, earning a lot of money in a short period, not earning money at all, short burst of traffic mix with quiet periods (like a sinewave pattern).
To fly under the radar, your traffic, conversions, and ctr, must grow steadily in a normal random pattern, month after month.
To fly under the radar, your traffic, conversions, and ctr, must grow steadily in a normal random pattern, month after month.
swinter84
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- Nov 7, 2008
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I find it kind of funny that people bitch about networks fucking them when they probably spend most of their day trying to fuck the networks...
don't put all your eggs in one basket, try some wh while your bh methods run on autopilot....
Contact your networks and AM's before anything bad happens, make friends...
don't put all your eggs in one basket, try some wh while your bh methods run on autopilot....
Contact your networks and AM's before anything bad happens, make friends...
litning1078
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- Aug 6, 2008
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I am not sure on how it was flagged, but I was doing less than $30 per day, and it was pretty consistent over 3 months, so who know how they do it.
litning - was it the day before payment or like 1 hour before payment did they ask you? i hope they dont do it to me, ive had some days here where I got 6 or 700 clicks and no sales. and i have $4100 pending that i did all from cookie plowing...im nervous now
stylesb
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- Nov 7, 2008
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Thats just the thing, for the banner ad that I was using, my CTR and percentages were right on par if not lower then the going rate. I figured I was scott free.... apparently not
omgitsmogo
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- Jan 18, 2009
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Nice paycheck ;-)
hope this never happens to me.. I don't really know all the technical jargon to bs my way out of stuff =/
hope this never happens to me.. I don't really know all the technical jargon to bs my way out of stuff =/
noob411
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- Feb 22, 2009
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You know don't feel bad ok. I don't use black hat methods (yet) still learning, I use ppc. One of my advertisers is hot right now in the internet world paying 25.00 per lead. I can easily generate 30-40 leads a day. CJ had the balls to ask me my promo methods I shot back a quick smart ass reply told them PPC, so that was ok now the advertiser is slowly reversing all of the legit leads, I told him if I ever come to his town which is in Las Vegas which I do go to often I am going to look his ass up. He stopped reversing. Legit or not legit cj and merchants screw with you because of the economy and other wealth building issues. Don't get me wrong, CJ pays, but they too are snakes and when sleeping with a rattlesnake you should never keep your eyes off of them.
halfalump
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- Feb 10, 2009
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I have had an AM admit to my face that they were turning their pixel off a percentage of the time in order to make ends meet, hoping I would understand their position. I wish I had a fucking tape recorder. That is outright fraud! And they hide it behind bullying tactics and do things a lot shadier than most in here ever will to dick over the people who keep them in business. I can't believe affiliates just take this shit and don't go class action on the whole industry.
bennyb
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- Feb 8, 2009
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I doubt making friends is going to help frozen funds or suspended accounts. A long while back I ran an incentive website and made a big friends with Max_B0unty AM . They were giving me 'special rates' and asking me to do everything I could to move this or tat offer untill I started hitting $10k+/mo . Thats when they decided to suspend my account and claim that because of low quality traffic I actually owe them money . Big networks will use any chance to stick you up . Be careful.
indexyoursite
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- Nov 19, 2008
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That's the reason you should split risk using different affiliate networks, and never serve 10K in profits to one aff.network / merchant alone.
stryker336
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- Dec 28, 2008
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Good advice in this thread, can be used for much more than CJ. thanks
visualmagic
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- Jul 4, 2008
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Thanks a lot - this answered a question of mine too.