This article was brought to my attention on the Affiliates4u … My interpretations of which are below & immediately prompted a good old fashioned slapping.
One of the many side affects in the suggestion of enforcing generics as negative keywords is that a few networks will disregard general opinion & what is right for the affiliate marketing industry by bowing to the whims of a merchant / agency to simply get a merchant on board for short term gains & beefing their portfolio .. & maybe a few generally less vocal affiliates to win favour with a network or merchant by being subservient suffocants.
This of course will be SPUN as strategic partnerships or complementing the clients existing paid search activity.
With foresight this would simply open Pa...