AOL agreed to pay $1.25 million to the state of New York in penalties and costs. They also agreed to clean up their act and stop using low life practices and not honoring customers request to cancel their AOL account. The lessons and techniques which AOL used can guide all of us when we deploy a “cancel” with any third party.
Reader “frogtrain” tells me how he used the techniques in my recent entry titled “Secrets your Affiliate Program doesn’t want you to know about” to earn significantly more money from his current CPA programs. The article link opens in a new window so, I suggest you read the original article as well as the email which I received and have edited at the senders request. The reader was generous enough to include a few tips which I failed to document.
All affiliate programs are full of Publishers who cheat. All affiliate programs include advertisers/merchants who engage in Spyware techniques to steal commissions, insert virus laded creatives in the banner stream, and sometimes don’t pay their affiliates. Catching these criminals is paramount for the long term viability of any Network. Their are numerous procedures to combat this problem which I have previously covered. In this installment, a detailed look at a Bounty for your reading pleasure.