Comments on: The Trouble With Statistics

By: mr1mij

mr1mij — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 15:56:02 +0000

Does anyone else have the problem that any link you try to open from ViralURL gets a “Can’t find Server” message?

This doesn’t happen on my computer for any other links. I’ve tried all the usual cache and cookies tricks — but nothing helped.

I wrote to them about it weeks, now months ago — but never heard anything back.

Any ideas — please reply.

By: Clive Praed

Clive Praed — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 18:37:49 +0000

After pondering for a few days, I think their figure could well be correct.

I’ve not managed to make ONE affiliate sale in four and a half years.

It’s good to know that I probably HAVE made hundreds of sales – they’ve just been stolen. LOL

By: Old Nick

Old Nick — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 15:24:29 +0000

Oh dear,

They mean 3/4 or 75% of all potential commissions are stolen. I would love to know how they arrive at that figure. In my experience the majority of buyers online simply don’t have the know how to realise that they purchasing through an affiliate.

Perhaps in the IM market but I doubt the figure would be anywhere near that in other niches.

By the way doesn’t it make you squirm every time you hear the way the yanks pronounce Niche?

By: Clive Praed

Clive Praed — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 13:47:46 +0000

It always annoys me when I have to agree with somebody, but in this case I have to agree with David.

Also, I have to agree with Elaine.

It IS sneaky – but if you are not sneaky you will never make a penny online.

If only I could write an e-Book “Sneaky and Devious 101 – Internet Marketers Edition” I’d make millions.

Clive

By: David Congreave

David Congreave — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 08:24:47 +0000

Good to know pedantry is alive and well

I take your point Elaine, but I think sneaky is a bit harsh. With thousands of members routing traffic through ViralURLs, the server load is probably hefty – so they have to make money somehow. Think of the emails you get with the free version as a subsidy for the free service.

By: Elaine Berry

Elaine Berry — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 07:29:17 +0000

ViralURL is a good tool but there is a big drawback, that if you take the free version you have to receive vast quantities of e-mails from other people. You can only opt out of them by “upgrading”. To me this is sneaky.

By: Clive Praed

Clive Praed — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 07:01:12 +0000

If some burglar is going to steal $3 for of every $1 you earn he is going to have to give you his Paypal email so that you can send him the other $2.

If I only have one you can’t steal 3 of it. Unless you are in America.

I noticed this a while ago and just assumed it was the American branch of Mathematics.

Much the same as the American form of English Language – where a large proportion of the words are spelled incorrectly.

Clive

By: John (Tidders)

John (Tidders) — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 19:29:49 +0000

The flaming idiots. You can’t steal 300%. 100% is max. The whole pie when I was at school. What they mean is as a whole of affiliate marketing commisions not the poor individual marketer who has gone broke I dare say. Looks an interesting and useful tool anyway but I am not doing much affililiate stuff just now.Bare it in mind if I spreads out m later from my sexy lingerie.