Aff site maintenance
by Sapphire (May 22, 2006)
This weekend, I cleaned out most of the dead links on my aff sites. Got some more work to do, but it’s getting close. I also changed the themes on two sites, and added some navigational stuff that I hope will make the sites easier to browse.
I got very frustrated because I came up with the most beautiful theme for one of my sites, and tested it in every Mac browser I have, plus Firefox, two versions of IE and Opera for Windows. It looked great. Then a friend of mine showed me a screencap of something totally messed up it was doing in her version of IE for Windows… which is the same version as one of mine.
You read it right. Same version of IE: my site works on one computer but not the other.
Mr. Gates, please remove your head from the dark place it’s residing and see if you can’t create a browser that’s a bit less flaky. It’s not a baking competition, okey-dokey? Sigh.
Otherwise, I’m pleased with the work I did. Today, I’m going to finish up, and my next task will be putting on a whole lot of new links. Currently, all my links are from ShareASale and CJ. I’m going to look at some other affiliate networks, and see if they have anything that should go on my sites. I’ll let you know if I use them, and how they perform, although I really don’t have the traffic to make an evalutation yet.
About CJ. In cleaning out links, I realized I still had a lot of theirs despite that big uproar last year, because darn it, they still have some of the better products I can link to. For me, ShareASale converts higher when it converts, but CJ gives me sales more often. I gave the whole CJ thing some thought, and concluded:
I’m going to keep their ads, and add some more. I’m going to keep working with them. First of all, I just don’t believe they will ever actually use that new clause about taking back your earnings if their merchants reverse sales 20 years from now. I mean, the odds of that happening are so slim, CJ would have to document it well, and you’d have to be able to get confirmation from the merchant that a sale was reversed. It’s just nonsense. But if they do try to enforce it against me, I live near enough to sue them.
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