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  Re: Voucher Code Sites - Take Action

Thing is lots of people obviously want discount codes so all a code site is doing is supplying them and providing the experience the user wants. The better sites also are unique content, with retailer articles, offer descriptions, community and all the rest. Okay we have the reveal code only to find there isn't one gripe but that can happen for any valid reason also. Not nearly as irritating as all those run of network ebay/ask.com ads you see clogging up the listings.

Plus leave your codes out in the open and they all get scraped so really I don't see the beef, its a decent enough biz model, perhaps the challenge is for the better sites to try and distinguish themselves from the mass but competition is healthy, it feeds innovation.

The users obviously find them useful, thats what google wants, the merchants want more sales and its not like these sites are forced on you, a user has to seek them out. So really I can't see these sites bothering all but the tiniest minorities of people.

Move on, accept, grow old, get fat, far better things to whinge about methinks
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  Re: Voucher Code Sites - Take Action

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Okay we have the reveal code only to find there isn't one gripe but that can happen for any valid reason also
I'd love to know one valid reason.. if there's not a code, there's not a code. There's therefore no need to force a user to click to find out.

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If every affiliate took that attitude, things wouldn't move on!

The whole point of this forum is to raise issues and discuss them - if everything is shrugged off as whinging and a thumbs up then how does that improve things for the industry as a whole?

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  Re: Voucher Code Sites - Take Action

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The whole point of this forum is to raise issues and discuss them - if everything is shrugged off as whinging and a thumbs up then how does that improve things for the industry as a whole?
This new landing page from M&S looks like a positive move:
Current Offers:*Marks & Spencer
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The whole point of this forum is to raise issues and discuss them
And call me a 'douche-bag' 'parasite' 'leech' for practicing ethical affiliate marketing?
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Voucher code mailing lists? Only morons ... sign up to them.
You don't deserve any commission for calling customers that.
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This new landing page from M&S looks like a positive move:
Current Offers: Marks & Spencer
I agree a few others have them too, Comet for instance.
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  Re: Voucher Code Sites - Take Action

fbird as you've quoted me, I'll assume all references to 'you' mean me, Ray, Befuddle, Shop Codes ....

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Merchant 'xyz' doesn't do voucher codes ... You know they don't do voucher codes but are happy to optimise as if they do.
Erm, no I don't! Please provide an example.

Here's an example screen grab of a successful merchant for me that doesn't do voucher codes. Please show me where I am optimising where Charles Tyrwitt has a code on my page. The only area I can see is that people may search for a code in my editable Google search box, if I don't have one.

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  Re: Voucher Code Sites - Take Action

fbird as you've quoted me, I'll assume all references to 'you' mean me, Ray, Befuddle, Shop Codes ....

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you say I should put something like 'click here for more information and don't go looking for a voucher code because there isn't one!'
No, I don't! Where do I say that?

I do write ''Visit CHARLES TYRWHITT SHIRTS for latest promotional offers"
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  Re: Voucher Code Sites - Take Action

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fbird as you've quoted me, I'll assume all references to 'you' mean me, Ray, Befuddle, Shop Codes ....
Not specifically, no, you aren't the worst offender by any means. However, since you ask....

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Erm, no I don't! Please provide an example.
Erm, yes you do:

m&S discount code - Google Search

Marks & Spencer Promotion Code | Free Delivery Code | ShopCodes.co.uk

I believe M&S are clear on this:
"Only codes authorised for use via the affiliate channel can be used on affiliate sites. Affiliates found promoting non authorised voucher codes risk having commissions reversed and being removed from the programme."
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  Re: Voucher Code Sites - Take Action

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fbird as you've quoted me, I'll assume all references to 'you' mean me, Ray, Befuddle, Shop Codes ....



No, I don't! Where do I say that?

I do write ''Visit CHARLES TYRWHITT SHIRTS for latest promotional offers"
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Why can't you just add another sentence or cut-and-paste a paragraph and include the code details? Is it too much work for you?
If there isn't a code then what else could I say?
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