www.myvouchercodes.co.uk

[mallyord]

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Pretty impressive figures released by their press department. I notice no mention of how they list websites that don't actually have any codes, but still get refferal commission when the person visits the site from theirs!

MyVoucherCodes is the 4th fastest growing website of 2008 in the UK, according to NielsonOnline

The site now regularly achieves 7m unique visitors per month and by the 19th of December 2008 the site had already achieved 8m unique visitors for that month alone.

MyVoucherCodes is now over two years old and has featured on the likes of BBC Working Lunch, BBC Breakfast, ITV and every major national UK newspaper.

[cycloneuk]

Very impressive, you can only imagine how many million MVC is making per month in commission, they make a fortune from advertising alone.

[energizing]

The saying 'nice guys finnish last' comes to mind.
--<br>Posted via my Mobile Device

[cycloneuk]

The saying 'nice guys finnish last' comes to mind.
--<br>Posted via my Mobile Device

Very true, very few people are successful when they stick to the rules 100%. Nothing wrong with making them flex and bend a little to be more successful

[confuscius]

Nothing wrong with making them flex and bend a little to be more successful

You must mean like this : site:myvouchercodes.co.uk outlink -search -miranda - Google Search - looks like you could just borrow the content from who you are promoting (check the cached pages) and possibly not bother with a redirect script (force clicks).

To get to this clever position you might also use static redirect pages with Google Ads on them, just to make money whilst you are engineering more income later on from setting cookies with no user intervention, except on Google. Of course, you may run the risk of someone having screen captures of those pages. You may also need to get permission to borrow the content as well.

Look at the screens carefully and you may be somewhat puzzled - just ask yourself, where am I now? What am I looking at now? It seems the only site you never get to see is MVC. Quite ingenious this one and makes use of the fact that Google takes time to work out what is what and who is where.

[ash]

confuscius, i never thought i'd defend MVC codes but you are wrong here.

The pages that search returns is just how MVC cloaks external links, you can see similar examples on my site Voucher Codes | Promotional Codes | Discount Codes | Valid and Current Money Off Codes (just click to any merchant page and look around), the only difference is i added exclusions so my pages never got indexed. (nofollow and robots.txt exclusions)

It looks like MVC have now added exclusions (http://myvouchercodes.co.uk/robots.txt), but alot of urls have already been indexed. If anything these pages could HARM MVC by being indexed.

Either way can you show me an example where a MVC outlink page ranks well in Google?

[linktank]

Are MVC actually doing anything illegal?
Been semi following all the talk about Mark and MVC over the last year or so but still confused as to what all the fuss is about

[confuscius]

The fact that there is NOW a robots disallow in place is probably due to recent discussions between network representatives and MVC. What WAS being engineered was not close to bending the rules.

[cycloneuk]

I'm all for bending rules some what but i'm strongly against any form of content theft, when i was in the affiliate industry myself and ranked in the top 10 for very big keywords, people thought they could copy my success i think by stealing my content and in some cases i have delt with people that made 100% copies of my sites.

MVC bend the rules and have clearly broken them before, but if people complaining had MVC'S pay cheques each month then i know without a shadow of a doubt that they would do the same.

[confuscius]

if people complaining had MVC'S pay cheques each month then i know without a shadow of a doubt that they would do the same.

In the world that I live in then not everyone has the same moral values, thankfully.

[DannyW]

Either way can you show me an example where a MVC outlink page ranks well in Google?

Well I can't find any Ash...

Even so this could all be a potential issue for everyone with MSN as they still ignore the nofollow tag, not sure if they ignore the the robots.txt. I have actually had the odd redirect (outlink) rank in MSN but it was short lived, and I watched MSNBot crawl a nofollow link earlier today.

[cycloneuk]

In the world that I live in then not everyone has the same moral values, thankfully.

I think if you earned close to a million each month then moral values would go out the window, you would be on a beach somewhere warm and not give a damn. A lot of people are jealous of those more successful fact.

A lot of people who post on this forum are not as innocent as they make out, like i said i some times bend rules but rarely break them.

[confuscius]

I think if you earned close to a million each month then moral values would go out the window, you would be on a beach somewhere warm and not give a damn. A lot of people are jealous of those more successful fact.

I am actually about 100 yards away from the beach at the moment, albeit the UK East coast is not that warm at the moment!

Some of us will always give a damn.

[tomrowlands]

I can't believe people who have worked in aff marketing before are actually defending MVC on here.

If you regard the things they do (using other people's domain names as title text in Adwords; creating automatically generated pages for thousands of sites, on which you click 'to reveal a code' and are then redirected to the MVC homepage via a page filled with Adsense ( http://www.myvouchercodes.co.uk/disc...vingexpert.com ); listing other domains in the footer of every page; I could go on) as merely 'bending the rules', then I pity your lack of moral fibre.

I'm totally convinced that MVC could still be massively successful & making millions without all the underhand tactics. As far as I can tell, they were one of the first to provide a voucher code service (or at least a broad one), are in the right place at the right time and they've done fantastically well on the PR side of things.

To me, affiliate marketing is all about adding value for both advertiser and consumer - MyVoucherCodes are (in my opinion) adding very little to either the way things are going. I know they were suspended from the Play.com programme a while back and I'm surprised that more merchants (and the big G) haven't penalised them (yet).