So, on to internet marketing stuff.

I recently had a very unpleasant experience with Yahoo affiliate products. I began promoting two of their products and had started to shape these into two nice little campaigns, clearing about $50 per day within just a few days.

During the 4th or 5th day I got an email from them, stating that I had violated their terms and was forcing clicks, inflating my commissions. Therefor, my affiliation with them was terminated and all of my commissions were being revoked. Huh. Not good!

I immediately went back and re-read their terms and conditions and found that I was, in fact, unknowingly violating their terms, by iframing my landing page.

The biggest bummer is that the only reason I was iframing was to make it easier to do keyword tracking. That was it. It wasn’t for any other reason. So… because I had in fact been framing their page, I was definitely in violation of their terms and conditions. I obviously didn’t mean to violate them. It just kinda happened.

I have tried to contact them to appeal this and ask them to reinstate me to their program, but I doubt anything will change. I mean… this is Yahoo. They don’t need me!

Oh… and they did revoke my commissions. All of them, within a few hours.

Since this happened I have heard of them doing the very same thing to other people too, sometimes to the tune of several thousand $$ in revoked commissions. Wow! Talk about harsh.

So, if you are not promoting Yahoo affiliate products, don’t bother doing so. If you are promoting them, make sure you are 100% completely legal!

Lesson learned. Read the terms and conditions very closely before promoting affiliate products.

Be blessed,

Curt