Comments on: Travel Affiliate sites should be scrapped

By: Lawcom

Lawcom — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 04:49:51 +0000

So it is lol, I should have checked, it just showed up while I was looking at another post..

By: Darren Cronian

Darren Cronian — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 04:17:32 +0000

Hi, this post was written three years ago, my opinion of affiliate sites has changed because I have seen some useful sites that make use of affiliate programs. I haven’t checked the sites is this post since I wrote it. Like this blog i am sure things have changed.

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By: Lawcom

Lawcom — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 04:02:55 +0000

What an incredibly naive statement, doesn’t really give you any credibility or your site.

It’s like saying what’s the point in affiliate marketing, like every other website on the net there are good ones and bad ones.

I’d have to see the affiliate site you are talking about but there are 2 situations where showing an ABTA badge are accpetable, 1 some affiliates are linked to travel agencies who are part of ABTA and they hold a contract with those companies to be ABTA bonded.

2nd some affiliates only use merchants who are ABTA bonded and can display that the companies or partners they are promoting are all ABTA bonded..

if there is a site that is trying to say they are part of ABTA then just contact ABTA and they will deal with it they have a strict policy on the use of their name brand.

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By: Kelly

Kelly — Fri, 15 May 2009 07:40:00 +0000

Hi Darren

I would be interested in your opinion now a year later. From my end affiliate sites are now much more professional and I am happy to use them as they usually bring many like products together to one spot – much like a supermarket – and that IS good for consumers.

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By: Paul

Paul — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 09:06:34 +0000

Interesting article and the replies are quite good too. Do you have an example of a terrible affiliate site and a good one? I’m working on a new one right now and would like to make sure mine adds value and is not either a useless one with no beneficial content or a dodgy looking one like real holiday reports…

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