Overture & Affiliates

So are they allowing them or not?

[Sweezely]

Recently we've found Overture to be turning something of a blind eye to affiliates. But yesterday we got the standard "Advertisers may not list a site they do not control (or an exact copy thereof) with Overture" email, removing all of our affiliate listings. After a little persuasion, we then got a message back basically saying that we could put affiliate ads back on provided we had permision from the company we were advertising. Of course we had permission! Did they think we were advertising this company just for the hell of it?

What are these people doing? They decline affiliate ads, then start allowing them, then they remove them, then reinstate them. Do they even know themselves what their policies are?

[dregs33]

Hi

You are right. In over 20 years of business experience I have never seen a company behave like Overture does.

They have no idea what their own policies are. They are oddest billion dollar company I have ever come across.

dregs33

[cakilmer]

I agree about Overture. I am constantly struggling with them to get my affiliate links through. I have even tried redirects that go directly to the client site. That worked for awhile. Then they stopped allowing it. Makes no sense to me. Overture won't go for a simple landing page either. They gotta have content. I don't know. All I want to do is get the client through to the merchant's site as quickly as possible. Overture slows me down.