LoveHoney - nothing recently

[Green2K]

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Hi

The LoveHoney.co.uk programme has just died I've had nothing since 14th June and was almost daily until then... have new sales stopped being validated or something?

Anyone?

Green2K

[jess1]

Hi Ya
Your affiliate manager is catherine@affiliateprogramadvice.com
We watch tracking and affiliate traffic and all is working fine. Sales as far as I can see are being validated. How ever, we have no control over the validation of sales in terms of physically validating as this is affiliatefuture who do this. We do not validate sales immediately as we have a period of two weeks in which to spot dodgy credit card transactions, so there is a sales lag. Sales are coming in fast and furious. As I don’t have your details I can not address your concerns today and would advise you contact Catherine or affiliatefuture please quote your affiliate ID at all times.

I would advise you to start eliminating the usual, changes in traffic levels, types of traffic, google updates, check your own tracking links and so on.

Cheers – Jess :0)


Jess

[woutermols]

Hi Green2K,

Reading your post and Jess's reply I just thought of something.

How is traffic to the site / page you advertise LoveHoney on doing? Reason for asking is that:

1. On the 31st of May Google had a big update where many sites / pages tanked in the search results (at least that is what I have been hearing from quite a lot of people).
2. Validation of sales takes place 2 weeks after they occur.

31st May + 2 weeks comes up with 14th of June. Which is the date you mentioned as that sales 'stopped'.

Just a thought.

[Green2K]

Hi Ya
I would advise you to start eliminating the usual, changes in traffic levels, types of traffic, google updates, check your own tracking links and so on.

Cheers – Jess :0)

Jess

Thanks Jess, I'll contact Catherine. Traffic I'm sending to lovehoney is constant.

Many thanks

Green2K

[befuddle]

On the 31st of May Google had a big update where many sites / pages tanked in the search results

Including mine. I was actually watching it live as it happened. Here's my organic Google traffic. The peak is May 31st ...

[jess1]

befuddle: yeah I saw your blog post about it, nice blog by the way.
U reckon we are all too reliant on google?

Gren2k: "please quote your affiliate ID at all times." U didn't :0), can you get back to Catherine (ta muchly)

[befuddle]

U reckon we are all too reliant on google?

I launched both an RSS feed and an almost daily newsletter at the beginning of June so that I don't have to be so reliant on Google in the future. My organic Google traffic dipped to such a low that for one day I had approximately the same number of subscribers than visitors from the search engine. The downside is time spent on rss or a newsletter may be time spent away from the actual website. However, the rss is indexed within the Google blog search index and so new traffic is generated.

[jess1]

Befuddle: I believe the key is providing value added content for your visitors, Id be inclined to work on this as you are doing. Ask your affiliate managers for content and re jig it to your own flavour when you get it. Discount vouchers are two a penny and same old (still useful). Im woking on some thing brand new and maybe just up your street in terms of visitor/value adds

Ill keep you posted hun