ShareASale and Toolbars / Call for Participation on Guidelines

Wednesday, January 28th, 2009

As I've stated a few times recently in blogs or interviews, it is my feeling that 2009 will see a great increase in the number of toolbars implemented throughout various affiliate and/or merchant sites. Due to the increase in installations of Firefox extensions as well, these toolbars will have ...

Ad-Tech NYC, the Affiliate Thing Podcast, and the PPC “3 Strikes” policy

Thursday, November 6th, 2008

I was able to get away for a couple of days and attend the New York Ad-tech show, which I've made it to I think just about every year. It is one of my favourite shows because the volume of companies exhibiting is so substantial - and one can ...

PPC Violation Reports - Now Available

Friday, August 1st, 2008

Merchants who login can now report PPC Violations for ShareASale review. Please note that this process is seperate and independant from any action that a Merchant wishes to take on an individual affiliate. There are some instructions in there on how this report should be used, as well as the ...

PPC Policy - 30 days - Certification

Wednesday, July 30th, 2008

For those awaiting news on the new PPC policy... Our plan is to begin the second stage on August 1st, where a method of reporting PPC abuse will be opened up to merchants. Remember, the first 30 days (roughly the month of August) will be a test period for this ...

ShareASale Pledges and Expectations… Part 2

Tuesday, June 17th, 2008

Well this is later than I was hoping to have the second part of the series finished, but so much has happened since then with the NY sales tax issue taking center stage there for a while. Because it is long - here is a bulleted summary - but it is ...

ShareASale Pledges and Expectations…

Sunday, March 9th, 2008

Over the next few weeks I will be posting a series titled the "Pledges and Expectations".  The goal of this series is to set out what we pledge to our clients, as well as what we then expect from them.  The series will be about 5 posts long and will ...