A real practical Vouchers Solution for "Content Affiliates".. finally!

[DanWBC]

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Hi all,

I have 10 invites for A4U forum users to the beta of VoucherLinks. If you are interested - PM me or post here.

Vouchers Solution for "Content Affiliates".. finally!

If you earn money from affiliate marketing then VoucherLinks is for you!
Add a tiny Javascript code to your website, very much like you do with AdSense and wow! - automagically all affiliate links are now VoucherLinks! Now your visitors getting all discount codes without the need to look elsewhere. And the best thing - it all happens in the background, transparently to your existing website, to your content, to your users and, of course, to your commission!

http://vouchers.im/info/voucherlinks

[DavidCartlidge]

Nice.

Now all you need to work on is making sure that if a cookie is set, it is not overwritten at checkout when the customers goes searching for a 'better' / 'different' code (but doesn't find one) yet in the process has had a cookie dropped..

[DanWBC]

Nice.

Now all you need to work on is making sure that if a cookie is set, it is not overwritten at checkout when the customers goes searching for a 'better' / 'different' code (but doesn't find one) yet in the process has had a cookie dropped..

I am not worrying about these situations. Vouchers.Im has a most comprehensive database of working discounts. When such discount code is given to the shopper in a clean form on a plate, it is far less likely shopper will want to waste time searching through dozens and dozens of other not-user-friendly websites.
I am happy to disregard this chance.

[DavidCartlidge]

I am happy to disregard this chance.

Have you ever sat over the shoulder of a typical (voucher aware) user?

Regardless of whether you tell them they have the best/only voucher they WILL go looking for another and that gives an almost certain outcome of the cookie being overwritten.

[fizzbird]

I am not worrying about these situations.

What about merchants who don't have any valid codes, I'm not really bothered about the ones who do?
For example: I link to a laptop at Currys and your tool displays discount codes for a fridge - how does this help me?

[DanWBC]

What about merchants who don't have any valid codes, I'm not really bothered about the ones who do?
For example: I link to a laptop at Currys and your tool displays discount codes for a fridge - how does this help me?

It helps shopper to see there is no discount for a laptop and gives him less motivation to still look for codes elsewhere.

But when merchant in your example issues laptop discount code, you are both in a win situation.

[mikey_freedom]

Firstly, I like the format and appreciate the work that is going into vouchers.im

My issue with the mouseover though is that if you have a number of merchants on a given page a user will have to develop a technique to avoid taking the mouse over another affiliate link.

I did a mouseover on link 1 (pixmania) and then shifting to the bottom of the page I went over the koodos grpahic. By the time I'd reached the bottom to click for the pixmania ads it was koodos ones on offer.

[fizzbird]

But when merchant in your example issues laptop discount code, you are both in a win situation.

A very rare occurrence in the real world, and then you have the other problem highlighted by rynert?

I think there really is only one real solution and it simply involves being careful who you promote?

[DavidCartlidge]

It helps shopper to see there is no discount for a laptop and gives him less motivation to still look for codes elsewhere.

Or

It helps shopper to see there is no discount [on this site] for a laptop and gives him [more] motivation to still look for codes elsewhere.

Don't get me wrong, it's neat, and definately will reduce cookies being overwritten a bit - but it is only a small part of the problem

[DanWBC]

Have you ever sat over the shoulder of a typical (voucher aware) user?

Regardless of whether you tell them they have the best/only voucher they WILL go looking for another and that gives an almost certain outcome of the cookie being overwritten.

Too sceptical. I think you are just referring to people who are never happy with what they have and always want more.

So if this solution doesn't appeal to you - you can always continue searching for something better (like this "typical" voucher code user ;-)

VoucherLinks widget is free to use and provides instant voucher codes support to existing websites. This is the tool many affiliates have been waiting for.

[Mogga]

So this voucher website links to comet still?

[DavidCartlidge]

Too sceptical.

If I had wanted to be sceptical I would have suggested that this would increase the awareness of vouchers codes with every site visitor, and the knock on effect is that every visitor would now search for a better voucher at checkout and almost every sale will go to a voucher code site....

[DanWBC]

My issue with the mouseover though is that if you have a number of merchants on a given page a user will have to develop a technique to avoid taking the mouse over another affiliate link.

Yes, it can be the case, in real example less likely though, as you probably won't have different affiliate links so close to each other.

But the good news you can configure VoucherLinks to give shopper notice of voucher codes in after click mode.

I'll put a demo page for this soon.

[DanWBC]

is that every visitor would now search for a better voucher

I dismiss this argument as it is still the same "must find better voucher" skepticism you already expressed one post above.

[DanWBC]

So this voucher website links to comet still?

What's the problem of linking to Comet? (Please do not hijack this thread).