Congrats to DieselAction for dropping a few grand ( I'm sure ) on the least user friendly piece of #%!* excuse for an affiliate section ever. What a fucking pain in the ass.. First, my old username and password that worked a couple weeks ago didnt work for their shiny new website so I had to re-sign up. No big deal, they switched to NATS from CCBill, makes sense. Unfortunately though, I recieved no confirmation email so a couple days down the road ( today ) I tried just logging in. No such luck - their shiny new system doesn't support the newest Firefox. Well, it does actually but their shiny new system's browser sniffer apparently couldn't properly parse the user agent and thus threw an error page. So I log in through IE ( which I use
only to check my Hotmail acct ) and go to get the new link codes... Single link code per page..?? Ok, no big deal, there's only like 10 sites. Now lets get the FHG's for the sites and import them.. Default campaign, check off all sites ( no select all ), both types ( pics/movies - no both or select all ).. *click* ...24 fucking pages and no way to export them all. Ugh - fuck it, I'll get the link codes for Camilla18 ( hawt ) and to hell with the others.. not even going to fuck with them. I hate to pick on DieselAction, because imho I would say the MAJORITY of all sponsors' systems are a pain in the ass, but theirs is one of the worst.
ANYWAY - Some friendly advice for sponsors who don't want to create work for their affiliates and thus, potentially, discourage them from promoting their sites:
1. Please make sure your username / password forms work on all pages of your website, ESPECIALLY the front page. I know of at least a couple that after entering what I KNOW is my user / pass, access is denied and I am redirected to the 'try again' page.. where the same user / pass that didn't work on the front page, now works perfectly.
2. If I misplaced my username / password.. please don't make me email you to retrieve it! There's quite a few sponsors out there that do not have password retrieval systems.
3. Especially for CCBill sponsors that cookie your affid - make sure you're not accidently padding our affiliate id's with spaces or any other characters and therefore giving us link codes that don't work.
4. Do not make us go to a new page for every fucking link code we want to generate. ( DieselAction )
5. If you're going to have a FHG/HFS export tool, allow us to pick what fields we want you to generate.. I don't want to spend all day deleting sitenames, prewritten descriptions, number of pics or any other info you think I might want.
6. With reguards to export systems, especially FHGs/HFSs - if you have a system set up to use variable content on variable templates, GREAT! Noone wants shitloads of the same gallery design with different content plugged into it but if I want ALL FHG's generated, that does not mean I want EVERY possible combination of content/gallery templates - aka DUPLICATE CONTENT. One link per set of content with a random template. FTVCash and those that use their system.. nudge nudge. Again, I don't want to spend all day deleting shit I don't want. Make it optional, not the default.
8. If a site doesn't work out, isn't selling for shit, merged with another site, or whatever. Please put SOMETHING in it's place. Redirect it, mirror one of your better selling sites, but don't just throw up a message stating that the site is no longer available.
9. Center and valign=top your designs where it makes sense ( most cases ). Not everyone uses 800x600 or 1024x768.
10. [ YOUR GRIPE HERE ]
Ultimately -
K.I.S.S., we're affiliates, you don't need to impress us! But if you insist, impress us with your
conversion ratios!
