Today's Newsletter - Check Your Sponsors Links

[Greenguy]

From Today's Newsletter:

Strangely enough, you should stop what you are doing and make sure your links to your sponsors sites are still the same as when you originally put them up.

Lately, there have been a few sponsors that have changed the affiliate link codes to their sites. While almost all of them have sent notice about the change, there are a few, that have not...tisk, tisk.

Now, do you want to continue advertising for the programs that did not send notice? That is entirely up to you. Look at the money you have made and decide if it is worth it. But, take a look at your stats and make sure you are still getting credited with your hard earned traffic at the very least.

It's a good idea to check all your links at least once/month.

Here's how this one came about - Jim & I were talking on the phone today & he asked if I had any ideas for the Tip & Trick (he usually has one, but every now & then he asks me if I have anything to contribute) Just before he called, I had gotten a email from a sponsor about a new site, so I went to grab my link code for it & noticed that the codes had changed since the last time I was in there So, since I was planning on going thru all my sponsor links anyway (decided I'd become a little more surfer friendly & link to console free tours if available) I started to go thru all my sponsors & verify the codes that I had on the Link O'Rama.

So, after about 3 hours, I finished with the sponsors that started with the letter A (well, almost - I have a bunch of shit to do for ARS - LOL)

So far, I have found:
Adult Cash - new link codes, can't see that I've ever been paid (email sent to them)
Adult Lounge - new link codes
Adult Profit Network - changed to NATS, so there's new link codes
(btw - the 1st 2 were still tracking)

Jim will be the 1st to tell you how anal I am with stuff like this, so it's pissing me off that I somehow missed that 10% of my sponsors (so far) have new link codes. I'm not accusing anyone of anything underhanded - I could have very well missed an email from these sponsors - but knowing how I try to keep up with these things for the news on here......

So I'm going to post whatever I find so that you can see what I've found & then you can double check your link codes & whatnot & maybe I'll save a couple people a couples hours of time

[MadMax]

Thanks GG, I've just found that some of the Spooky Cash codes have changed, and after looking I found that I missed the email

If it weren't for the newsletter I may not have looked.

[Head Boy]

I had some old links to ND NastyFetish.com, and it looks as if they have sold the domain to Cybernet and moved their site onto NastyFetish.org. I suspect this happened a long time ago, and I missed the email about it. It's one of the probs with having old sites - I'm still finding Globill links.

[cd34]

if you have ssh access:

grep -Rli 'texttofind' * (capital R, lowercase ell, lowercase i (case insensitive))
or
find . -type f -print | awk '{ print "grep -li \"texttofind\" " $1 }' | sh

Sometimes grep -R might complain about 'too many files'

Once you get the list of files, you can do a search through the names listed above.

There are many server side replacement scripts, and many that can run through FTP or remote. Or, you could mirror your site locally, and run one of the many search and replace scripts.

Or, you could use google to search for the old links on your site.

[Greenguy]

CJ Bucks changed their link codes too.

I've had enough of this for one day - LOL

[Greenguy]

Just an update:

Cash Fetish - updated link codes

Cash XXX - updated link codes

Cash Zone - changed link codes

Cash Maniacs - only paying via wire (when I signed up they paid by checks) so I'm waiting to hear back from them on that issue

[stuveltje]

ni realy realy hate those sponsors who dont inform their webmasters, and i am dropping them right away, easy pick

[Greenguy]

Remember, I never said that they did not inform me - all of them very well could have sent out an email that I missed.

But knowing how anal I am compared to others, it made sense to Jim & I for me to post this info as a bit of advice.

In most cases, the changes look to be just improvements on tracking or adding extra features - aside from the program that I didn't notice changing to NATS all the clicks & sales were being tracked.

I'm not pulling any of these links or programs, just making the changes to the link codes

[ngb1959]

so did flashcash

[stuveltje]

well i can say i didnt got some emails abot changing and i realy hate changing , although the ones i do sell good i will change and not drop

[Greenguy]

I'm still in the C's

[stuveltje]

i still have some sites here and there with sponsors who are already dead for more then a year, but than i am choatic and dont keep track of all, mmmm i realy need to change that one day

[Greenguy]

Another update - I'm into the D's

Click Me Media - updated link codes

Dating Gold - updated link codes

Digibucks - changed to a new admin with new link codes (I had to sign up again)

More as I find them

[emmanuelle]

This is one of the reasons that we have resisted moving to Nats- changing link codes has to be a pain in the a$$

[RawAlex]

Nats in particular is a pain because of their link code system, which makes it harder (from what I can tell) to set up redirects.

Alex

[Greenguy]

Finished with the D's

Discount Pass Bucks - absorbed by Platinum Bucks, so new link codes

Dollar Machine - removed a bunch of sites & I got tired of trying to figure out which ones were still active & which were dead with their really annoying consoles & back button disablers.

[chilihost]

aah...bugger!!!

I just checked some old sites and discovered lots of useless links providing free traffic to a number of sites.

Thank you BIG TIME GG

cheers,
Luke

[BlueQuartz]

I hate sponsors who make you change link codes

[Barron]

The really annoying part is when threads like this get started and the affiliate programs themselves dont post, or give a heads up that they have changed their links/codes.

[Greenguy]

Please stop acting like I'm posting doom & gloom stuff - LOL - for the most part, the changes in the link codes have been for better tracking or updated options (consoles, trials, etc)

[Greenguy]

I'm thru the E's

Erotica Cash - looks to be dead - it's been ages since I got a check & I am due a couple bucks

I also got an email from Adult Cash & they are looking into my payment problem

[security_man]

if you hear anything from adult cash let me know greenguy... i just noticed i havent been paid by them in a while either. matter of fact it has been sense they changed their payout schedual now that i look a little closer, they were getting hit hard by the visa rule change last i looked and it seems no money from them sense... i smell a stink comming on

[Greenguy]

I will say that I had to 1st email the link in the admin & then after I got no reply, I emailed the person on the domain's whois, so that my be the route to take to properly get a hold of them.

[Greenguy]

I'm almost thru the G's & I'm starting to get really depressed about all these that I missed or was not informed about

Fat Paychecks - changed link codes

Fat Pays - switched from CCBill to custom admin, so new link codes

Fresh Checks - switched from CCBill to custom admin, so new link codes

Georgia Cash - updated link codes

Giga Cash - updated link codes

[SkinTraffic-JJ]

I have like 3000 domains so when a program notifies me they are changing thier system..then "Final notice" etc. I usually mean to change them but it like 60% of the time just never happens. I can think of one program in particular that pisses me off the way they did that..