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ryanfromaustin
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Posted: 11/03/2005 08:22 am
We have recently rolled out an in-house affiliate program and have been submitting to a number of affiliate websites and directories. We have seen something very strange happening and I wonder if any of you can shed any light. We have had about 20 affiliates sign up for our program who all have very similar Chinese names. Further, they all register with fake mailing addresses in California and fake phone numbers. Most of them have not brought us any traffic but the few who have brought us anything bring us only fraudulent traffic. We're lead aggregators and they keep bring us obvious bogus leads that all look similar - all from contacts with California addresses, bad phone numbers, etc.
Have any of you seen this before and do you have any ideas about what their motivation is? They should no we're not going to pay them for bogus traffic, yet they keep bringing it to us.
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bhartzer
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Posted: 11/03/2005 08:26 am
If you're a company doing business in the United States I suggest that you only accept affiliates based in the USA.
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ryanfromaustin
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Posted: 11/03/2005 09:05 am
We only accept US affiliates. However, these people are registering with fake California addresses.
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SportsGuy
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Posted: 11/03/2005 09:10 am
Seen it - they're motivated by money.
This type of thing happens daily. The goal is volume - hit enough programs, that eventually something will click and drive some money.
It's crap.
You may, depending on volume, want to manually process your affiliate applications. This will allow you to check their addy, phone number, etc. before allowing their account to go live.
If they're legit, it shouldn't be an issue. If they're bogus, they'll look elsewhere.
It is time consuming, but due to affiliate BS like that, you really have to be hands-on inside your programs almost daily to keep the crap to a minimum.
HTH
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bhartzer
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Posted: 11/03/2005 10:08 am
We only accept US affiliates
So just ignore them. Delete them. Get rid of them.
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