Affiliate Marketing Blog by James Little

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