Following on from my iPhone confusion post yesterday Kieron posted this morning about how affiliates are being banned from promoting the iPhone but that they still get £20 commission if they happen to make a sale.
This is the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard, here is the email from TradeDoubler that I got this morning:
Hi Patrick,
As a follow up to our communication earlier this week from the Carphone Warehouse, we have a very positive update regarding commission payments against the new iPhone.
Following discussions, it has been agreed that the Carphone Warehouse will pay affiliates £20 for each approved iPhone sale.
The iPhone goes live on the site on the 11th July, however they will also pay affiliates for all the Apple iPhone orders from the 7th July that go through as sales.
This is based on one important factor. Affiliates will not be able to advertise this product under any means, no links can go through to the Apple iPhone page, and if you been found advertising the Apple iPhone we will not be able to pay any commission on the sales generated.
Please don’t hesitate to contact us if you have any questions.
Kind Regards
Glen Blake
Account Director
glen.blake@tradedoubler.com
Words fail me. How can they tell people who have probably been writing about the iPhone for 2 years to suddenly stop promoting it? What about sites that have hundreds or thousands of visitors a day arriving from search engines looking for the iPhone? You can’t just turn this traffic off.
Patrick Altoft is Director of Search at Leeds based digital & SEO agency Branded3. Patrick also runs Blogstorm.You can get our blog posts delivered for free by email every day - simply add your email address to the box below or alternatively grab the RSS feed.
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The iPhone will be dead in 6 months anyway. Proprietary software and lack of support for existing technologies have killed it. The fact that Apple keeps providing incremental versions with technology that should be a given (3g), just keeps driving nails in the coffin.
I couldn’t it when I read the email myself – all it ended up meaning for me is that I used another affiliate network (that had an O2 programme which was paying without stupid terms like this) in promoting the iPhone.
The whole thing made me smile if nothing else!
Hi do u all know the best affiliates for Iphone?
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