Spyware & Parasites

Attack Sites, Malware and Safe Browsing Diagnostic

Just had a new publisher apply into one of the affiliate programs we manage on the Google Affiliate Network. The affiliate’s website opened just fine in my Internet Explorer, but Mozilla Firefox gave me a warning a part of which you are seeing above. Are you checking affiliate websites for […]

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Trademark Violators — a Type of Parasite

While parasitism in affiliate marketing frequently being synonymized only with downloadable applications that intrude with the end user’s shopping experience with a purpose of facilitating cookie setting/swap on the customer’s machine, the term should really include everyone who is extracting wealth from merchants/advertisers without assisting them in any way to

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ShopAtHome.com or How Affiliate Marketing Gets Hurt

Let me start with a story, a true story. I hosted a table at the last Affiliate Summit’s Meet Market. Meet Markets are networking events held for the purpose of affiliates, merchants, affiliate networks, outsourced affiliate program managers, and other agencies to “meet-and-greet” each other during the first day of

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Parasitism in Affiliate Marketing. OneCause.

Webster’s Dictionary defines “parasitism” as is “an association” in which a parasite “obtains benefits from a host which it usually injures.” [source] In affiliate marketing, a parasite is an affiliate that always (not “œusually”, but always) injures the host (another affiliate), and does so by stealing commissions from the latter (hundreds

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