E: 30/09 Win £100 to spend with Chums.

ThinkingOfLinking

Aff link removed, see post 2 for the correct one.

Click at the top right hand side and enter your details. End date has been guessed and will be amended if and when an actual end date is found.

kipper_2-2

Affiliate links are NOT ALLOWED, its against the forum rules, I've removed the link from the OP and this is the correct one


http://www.chums.co.uk/register.asp


Can you also please adhere to the end date format of E: xx/xx as it helps with the new search facility. I have changed it this time.

ThinkingOfLinking

Can someone explain what an affiliate link is? I just posted the one I found on the Chums website, although I did not enter the competition so if there is something wrong I wouldn't know...I usually don't enter the competitions I post, just put them there for other peoples' benefit.

kipper_2-2

The link I posted is the one from the website.


An affliate link is where a company receives some form of revenue via the special links



From Wiki


Affiliate marketing is an Internet-based marketing practice in which a business rewards one or more affiliates for each visitor or customer brought about by the affiliate's marketing efforts.


Affiliate marketing is also the name of the industry where a number of different types of companies and individuals are performing this form of Internet marketing, including affiliate networks, affiliate management companies, and in-house affiliate managers, specialized third party vendors, and various types of affiliates/publishers who promote the products and services of their partners.


Affiliate marketing overlaps with other Internet marketing methods to some degree, because affiliates often use regular advertising methods. Those methods include organic search engine optimization, paid search engine marketing, e-mail marketing, and in some sense display advertising. On the other hand, affiliates sometimes use less orthodox techniques, such as publishing reviews of products or services offered by a partner.


Affiliate marketing—using one website to drive traffic to another—is a form of online marketing, which is frequently overlooked by advertisers. While search engines, e-mail, and website syndication capture much of the attention of online retailers, affiliate marketing carries a much lower profile. Still, affiliates continue to play a significant role in e-retailers' marketing strategies.[1]

ThinkingOfLinking

I found it via www.ukcompetitions.com and then I checked on this forum to see it had not already been posted....I did not know people could do that. How do you know whether or not it is an affiliate link? So I know in future...because when I found it, the link on the Comps website sent me directly to the Chums homepage and I could not see anything wrong or suspicious.

kipper_2-2

click on the link from ukcompetitions again and then see what the difference is between mine and the one in your address bar

it will contain the word aff and a set of numbers.... a big giveaway

ThinkingOfLinking

kipper wrote: »

click on the link from ukcompetitions again and then see what the difference is between mine and the one in your address bar

it will contain the word aff and a set of numbers.... a big giveaway

OH, OK. That would probably explain the whole posting duplicates thing as no wonder these links don't come up. OK, now I know, final question for you is how then, do I post a valid link, removing the affiliate crap from it? Thanks for the help so far...

SWDON

GOOD LUCK!

PRIZE DRAW CLOSING DATE 28th FEBRUARY 2009

kipper_2-2

Flickering_Ember wrote: »

OH, OK. That would probably explain the whole posting duplicates thing as no wonder these links don't come up. OK, now I know, final question for you is how then, do I post a valid link, removing the affiliate crap from it? Thanks for the help so far...

The aff links have nothing to do with duplication errors, thats just you not searching correctly, if you put in chums.co.uk then all comps would show whether or not it contained an aff link


You can't always remove the link as sometimes it is a comp that especially for a marketed audience.

Best way to check is go to the website in question and see if you can find the comp yourself.

ThinkingOfLinking

Fair enough...I will try that. But so I know, if I cannot remove the affiliate link, that means MSE would prefer I do not post it, as they do not want any affiliate links, then? I understand why of course.

kipper_2-2

Do NOT post anything with an affiliate link


simple really