A4U Competition 3 - Win a holiday with easyJet Holidays

[kimarie]

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To celebrate the launch of the easyJet Holidays affiliate programme on Webgains the easyJet Holidays affiliate team are proud to announce the A4U Travel Affiliates SEO competition open to all A4U members, giving you the chance to win a fantastic luxury holiday to the Canaries.

The Competition: in order to be in with the chance to win this fabulous prize, you will need to build a new affiliate site and generate the most sales (counted by number of sales) for easyJet Holidays between 18th April 2011 and 1st October out of all the competition entries.

The Prize:
By taking part in the competition not only do you get to keep all the commission you earn you’ll also be entering to win a 7 night holiday for 2 people staying in one of our top hotels in the Canaries on an all-inclusive basis, with all flights and transfers included. All courtesy of easyJet Holidays

T&C’s apply, prize is for 2 people sharing a room and restrictions on travel dates apply (i.e. no bank holidays or School holidays, subject to availability). The prize is valid for 6 months. Entrants must be minimum 18 years old and able to travel abroad.

Rules:
1. Site must be based on “European and North African Holidays” niche
2. Domains must be newly registered and have not been used in the past for affiliate purposes
3. Site must not be live or indexed by Google, Yahoo or Bing until 18th April 2011
4. PPC activity is strictly forbidden
5. Under no circumstances will our brand in any way be used as a targeted keyword
6. ‘easy’ in any form must not be present in the site URL
7. No black hat SEO tactics may be used at all times
8. Outsourcing content, link building, design and programming work is permitted
9. You must not use your own existing sites for backlinks
10. Winner is the entry that generates the most sales for easyJet Holidays generated from their originally entered website.

You can enter as many sites as you wish but each site will be counted as an individual entry and sales from multiple sites will not be combined.

To enter you’ll need to sign up to the easyJet Holidays affiliate programme then email your entry URL to rufus.bazley@holidays.easyjet.com and all entry URL’s will be listed on this post on the 18th April 2011!

More information on the easyJet Holidays programme can be found: http://holidays.easyjet.com/ehaffiliates.htm

Join the programme here:
http://www.webgains.com/signup.html?...ction=stepzero

Any questions feel free to ask!

[energizing]

Thanks to whoever put this together (I assume Webgains?) great to see such incentives.

Only comment would be maybe add another way to gain entries, to try and get the small affiliates onside. For example like AF do with the infamous holiday giveaway.

Might give this a go myself :-)

[babrees]

hmm, interesting! With regard to #2 - newly registered domains - I have a domain registered in 2008 but has NEVER had a site there, so to Google it would be a brand new domain. Does this mean I can't use it?

[rufus]

Hi Babrees,

I thought I'd step in at this point to clear up the ruling for your question.

URLs that have been purchased beforehand can be entered but may be rejected you will need to submitted the URL (via email) to me so I can check that there are no site URLs index and that there are no existing back links that could give you an unfair advantage over other entries in the competition.

if you want to drop me a quick message with your URL I'll get this checked and confirm the URL is OK.

Thanks
Rufus

[confuscius]

When is a commercial post in the lounge not a commercial post???? Mods please respond with advice! Reported!

[kimarie]

So you would prefer a competition with no prize? How is it any different from the previous A4U competitions?

[confuscius]

Other competitions have involved some pre discussions via affiliates with affiliates being free to choose whom to work with. This is a simple merchant incentive. Just my opinion. Not for me.

[Sevenhills]

Yes, this is not a competition, simply a promotion of the easyjet scheme.

Previously we had discussions on which niche to pick and all.. Now someone just comes up with a niche and expects everyone to follow.

Who was the winner of the previous competition by the way?

[darrenb]

Whilst I agree this is not really a competition more of a merchant incentive, I still think this is a great way of encouraging affiliates to start a site in a particular area.

Many merchant incentives are aimed at the big guys who already have the traffic so by restricting things a little more and adding terms to the incentive it gives anyone new to the niche a fair chance of winning a prize.

Hat's off to EasyJet for doing this.

[scriptmonkey]

Sounds good to me, I'm in, bought my domains, developing the sites right now.

[rufus]

Hi All,

Sorry if this has been taken the wrong way by some of you, this is really meant to be a bit of fun for anyone thinking of starting or interested in starting a holiday website and if it's been posted in the wrong forum for this type of thing then can one of the Mods please move this to the correct place

That said so far we have had a pretty good response with a few of you having already submitted your URL's to me so please keep them coming.

@confuscius - sorry if we did something wrong which has put you off entering, if you have any feedback please email me with this, I'm always looking for way to improve the easyJet Holidays programme and our interaction with affiliates and although we’ve spent a fair amount of time planning this with kimarie over the last couple of month it sounds like in your opinion we have missed a few things.

@Srciptmonkey - I'm glad to hear you so keen on the competition / Merchant incentive but I don't think I've seen an email with you with the URL yet (just checking encase I’ve missed it somewhere).

Thanks
Rufus

[scriptmonkey]

@Srciptmonkey - I'm glad to hear you so keen on the competition / Merchant incentive but I don't think I've seen an email with you with the URL yet (just checking encase I’ve missed it somewhere).

Rufus, we had an email conversation yesterday, I said I'd probably sell one of the domains to another participant.

Tony

[rufus]

Sorry Tony, I didn't realise you were Script Monkey in the forum hahaha

[Bud]

When is a commercial post in the lounge not a commercial post???? Mods please respond with advice! Reported!

Seems like a promo/incentive to me - have moved this (and similar) to what I believe is the appropriate forum, but I'm happy to be corrected

Addition:
Just seems like this would open the door to allow any merchant to post a promo under the guise of running an 'A4U' competition.

[rufus]

Hi All,

I thought now would be a good time to introduce the new easyJet Holidays toolbox, provided from AdNet Media.

There are 3 tools currently available in our toolbox

• Product Carousel
• Trip Widget
• Mini Directory

Each of these 3 tools has the option to be placed on your site as a contextual ad, which will match the most appropriate holidays in the ad to the content of your page. Or, if you prefer, you can manually set this for each ad.

All holidays offered within the unit are updated every night, so you'll always have the latest deals and prices displayed.

To take advantage of these tools, you will need to be signed up, and approved to the easyJet Holidays affiliate programme, available from Webgains. Once you're approved for the programme, simply click here where you will need to enter your Webgains ID, your email address, and ad a few lines of code to your site (your email will only be used to notify you of any changes or new tools).

Once your all setup, sales will track in the Webgains interface as normal, and you'll still receive your 3% commission on all easyJet Holidays bookings.