No SEO Allowed on the Glomobi Affiliate Program
20 May
Sometimes I really do despair and today the team at Zanox helped me do just that.
Whilst browsing across the forum I noticed a post from Darren Hamer, Head of Account Management at Zanox about a new affiliate program for Glomobi, a mobile phone ringtine / game company that seem to be based in South Africa.
This was all fine until I noticed a very odd condition in their terms. See the screenshot below:
No SEO allowed? Let’s ignore the fact that this can’t really be defined as a Keyword policy for a second… No SEO allowed? I thought that we had seen the end of programs putting up such silly conditions, but alas, I was wrong.
So does this mean that content sites can’t promote it at all? Should they use their robots.txt file to block spiders from getting to it? I think we need some more information on this condition Zanox, or rather, just remove it completely, as it’s stupid.
My day was then made complete by searching for the Glomobi brand name on google and seeing that ranked position 3 & 4 in the serps is a blog slagging them off for being fraudsters, spammers and general crooks. You’d think after that was so high up that they would WANT some SEO done by affiliates to provide better results!
Another good example of this is Ocean Finance back in April last year and look where that got them – they don’t even rank on their brand name 
I imagine what they mean is no direct to merchant PPC, but I’m amazed that anyone at a so-called ‘leading European’ agency like Zanox doesn’t know the difference between the two.
lol classic!
May be they must be thinking about Internet Marketing.SEO is a must when it comes to site promotion and for better web traffic.
Apologies, it was an error in communication. We have just had it confirmed with the client that SEO IS ALLOWED.
If anyone has any ongoing queries please contact me.
Outrageous! An error in communicaton? Get serious…
Doesn’t really help promote confidence in this program
Sorry mate but you are going to have to do better than ‘apologies’ to regain lost ground
Inclined to agree with Stephen’s comment