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How do you deal with affiliates who spam?

by Sergiu FUNIERU
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I remember I read once about a very successful Internet Marketer who had to pay fines because some of his affiliates were spammers. Those affiliates sent a lot of spam, and some persons who were spammed thought that the author sent the spam, because the author's name was on the cover. Actually, I don't remember exactly if those were affiliates or the author had sold the MRR to his products.


How can you prevent that? You just say on your site "Affiliates, please don't spam" and that's it? I have a feeling that's more complicated than that.

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  • Profile picture of the author Firstrate
    If they are found out they are usually immediately banned from networks with all of their affiliate commissions taken away from them.
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  • Profile picture of the author tonydbaker
    If I recall, technically with Clickbank, you're a vendor. They hold all the liability. I could be wrong. But... if an affiliate of the local food mart is spamming people about the Pepsi promotion they have, and I sold food mart the Pepsi.. does that mean I'm a spammer? No.

    If you're running direct affiliate programs. Then just nix the affiliate account as soon as complaints reach a certain threshold.
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  • Profile picture of the author Sergiu FUNIERU
    From my point of view, it should not be my fault if some other persons are spamming. However, I read somewhere (and in ncmedia's answer "So yes you are open to liability as a vendor") that I am liable. I don't understand why.

    It's also not very clear for me how can I find out if one of my affiliates is spamming.

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  • Profile picture of the author Slin
    It's actually a hacker (evil) technique that people will use to destroy those they hate.

    There's a specific name for it that I don't remember...pretty much you just send horrible spam mail with that companies name to people so that the company gets a bad name.

    Doesn't happen often, I don't know if there's anything you can do about it.
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    • Profile picture of the author Sergiu FUNIERU
      Originally Posted by Slin View Post

      It's actually a hacker (evil) technique that people will use to destroy those they hate.
      You are talking here about some kind of enemies. That's for the next level. I'm not there yet.

      I am refering to spammers who don't want to hurt me intentionally. They are just ... how can I put it nicely ... they have limited time and they want to make as much money as they can in the shortest time possible.

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    • Profile picture of the author Sergiu FUNIERU
      Originally Posted by ncmedia View Post

      The best thing to do is grab their CBID and tell your rep to warn them or ban them. This is the exact reason I do it like clockwork, otherwise within a few months you have tons of kids doing PPV killing your server thinking "1:10,000 is good if I buy 100,000 in bulk"....
      Do you mean that you report an affiliate if you see too much traffic coming from his ClickBank ID? How can you know that traffic is not legitimate? What am I missing?

      Originally Posted by ncmedia View Post

      Regarding tampering with your competitors by bombing them in various ways
      In case you're referring to me, I have no intentions to do such things. I'm pretty busy with the good stuff. If you're speaking in general, I completely agree.

      Originally Posted by precious007 View Post

      Since they can always open new accounts with Clickbank anytime and start all over again... ;-)
      You're right. They can come again. That's one more reason for me to be puzzled by my liability for their actions.

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    • Profile picture of the author Sergiu FUNIERU
      Originally Posted by ncmedia View Post

      If you have decent reporting/analytics, you should be able to see 95+% of what your affiliates are doing.
      If you don't mind, what programs do you use for statistics?


      Originally Posted by ncmedia View Post

      You're telling me if you were a vendor, and you saw 51,000 hops and no conversions from an affiliate.
      In this case, with no conversions, I understand your point of view. But, what if there are, let's say, 100 conversions, how can you tell that person is a spammer? Maybe he simply has a big list.

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  • Profile picture of the author Sergiu FUNIERU
    Excellent! Thank you very much for the picture.

    The warning for a small number of orders compared to the traffic is the answer to my question above - I didn't think of it.

    I also didn't know that you can request additional conditions for affiliates, other than the ClickBank's ones.

    Now it's much clearer for me. Thank you very much for all the information.

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