Posts tagged RANT
Kyle Hates Linkshare
Feb 8th
It’s not like me to dedicate an entire post for the sole purpose of complaining.
Wait, yes it is.
The reason I’m taking time out of my life to flame Linkshare is because of their complete disregard for the quality of their system in its entirety. It’s a mouthful, but I can write something negative about everything Linkshare does… they’re amateurs, simply put.
Linkshare, a United Kingdom company, can be compared to the United States based Commission Junction (cj.com) only for its functionality. CJ far surpasses Linkshare’s ability to unite both publisher and advertiser successfully. Linkshare has no incentive to make you, the publisher, any real money. Linkshare’s goal is money alright, for themselves.
#1. Linkshare.com is down as of this post. I figured this is a good start to my list.
#2. Linkshare does not respond to support tickets. What? Did the postman lose my letter in your online support ticket system? Of course when I asked them questions regarding my tax information (i.e money), they respond in under an hour.
#3. Almost all of Linkshare’s advertisers are second teir, meaning less likely to bring YOU in any profit. YOU ARE A TOOL TO LINKSHARE!
#4. Linkshare’s portal for tracking and managing publisher sales is complete dog-sh*t. Let me show you this screenshot: (oh… wait, their site is currently “performing maintenance”). I was going to show how their dashboard does not display at all using Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome. Really? IE only?
This rant is a result of many, many months of using Linkshare actively, earning money along the way. I’m still not happy, Linkshare does a poor job of handling their clients, both advertisers and publishers. Commission Junction still needs a nosejob or two, but not compared to Linkshare who looks like they just got out of a 30-car pile up on an icy bridge.
Sabotaging Google Politically
Feb 15th
Most people love Google (or at least they have nothing against them). There are are a few people, though, that would love to sabotage their reputation.
(Note the misspelling)
Barack Obama has been criticized in the past, having been called Barack “Osama”, in order for the accuser to make his point politically. What better way than to make a third-grade level joke about a potential president candidate’s last name, right? Anyways, that’s where the term comes from.
It’s probably some 16 year old kid from Virginia who had his Adsense account with $99.99 in it terminated by Google for invalid clicks a day before payments were made.
But. Google would be wise to make the appropriate measures on taking this redirect down. Why? Well any ignorant or computer-savy web users can easily make the assumption that this is either a joke by Google or a polictal stand against Barack Obama. Not likely, but still something a large corporation like Google needs to address.
Bravo.
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