Microsoft - Quality Scoring Affiliate Sites

[paulhorwitz]

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Spoke yesterday with my account manager at Microsoft who told me that since the launch of Bing.com they have a new policy of quality scoring all affiliate sites where traffic enters and then leaves to go to another site to transact as they see this as a poor visitor experience and therefore we either have to pay substantially more or not show at all.

I am shocked at this news and wonder if anyone else has had this confirmed by Microsoft - and if not, perhaps you could speak with your respective account managers and get clarification on this as it is a sinister move by them against the affiliate marketplace as a whole - and unbelievably arrogant.

[bapages]

Is this not already done by Google?

[hpops]

I am shocked at this news and wonder if anyone else has had this confirmed by Microsoft - and if not, perhaps you could speak with your respective account managers and get clarification on this as it is a sinister move by them against the affiliate marketplace as a whole - and unbelievably arrogant.

Not sure why its "arrogant" to control the quality of your advertisers and the experience of your users - annoying, sure, but not really arrogant?

[tomj]

They basing this on click backs to bing after clicking thru to you in the first place??

Pretty sure google has been factoring in back-button actions for quite a while now?....

[chrisuk]

And guess what if they don't like your affiliate product they ban your account. Umm except they can't be bothered to let you know, you have to figure it out yourself and suck it up.

Despite being huge respectable multi nationals all the big three can behave like cowboy kitchen fitters when it comes to certain things (apologies to any cowboys out there.)

It was only a matter of time, they already reduce impressions to low scoring ads, you just have to outsmart them, not that hard.:sneaky.

[futureweb]

Not being funny - but offer a service, comparison, reviews combination? add value thats the key.