{"id":761,"date":"2009-04-15T06:11:39","date_gmt":"2009-04-14T22:11:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whoisandrewwee.com\/?p=761"},"modified":"2009-04-15T06:12:36","modified_gmt":"2009-04-14T22:12:36","slug":"ruck-affiliate-network-fraud-exposure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/affiliate-marketing\/ruck-affiliate-network-fraud-exposure\/","title":{"rendered":"Ruck Brings Affiliate Network Fraud Exposure To A New Level"},"content":{"rendered":"
Convert2Media co-founder Ralph Ruckman AKA Ruck has stepped up his efforts to expose fraudulent affiliate applications, following our discussion about the issue on a recent Friday Podcast<\/a>.<\/p>\n Along with showing a couple of “tasks” posted on outsource boards with payout ranging from $5 to $100 per successful application<\/a> (and part 2<\/a>). What’s surprising\/alarming is the number of “big name” affiliate networks on the list.<\/p>\n Ruck also opens up his affiliate application records showing a number of such seedy operations originating from less developed countries such as China<\/a> (and part 2<\/a>), Ruck has made it a personal mandate to expose fradulent affiliate applications, which ultimately hurt the networks, merchants and affiliates in their pocket.<\/p>\n What has impressed me about Ruck’s approach to business is that he pulls no punches and goes for the jugular every time.<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n On other news, Convert2Media has gone off the DirectTrack platform to its own proprietory platform, which should increase earnings for affiliates.<\/p>\n Also the coaching programs which they were to have launched earlier (mentioned in the podcast<\/a>) have been rolled back a couple of weeks till after Ad:Tech SF.<\/p>\n Stay tuned.<\/p>\n Links:<\/p>\n Convert2Media co-founder Ralph Ruckman AKA Ruck has stepped up his efforts to expose fraudulent affiliate applications, following our discussion about the issue on a recent Friday Podcast. Along with showing a couple of “tasks” posted on outsource boards with payout ranging from $5 to $100 per successful application (and part 2). What’s surprising\/alarming is the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[1769,1511,1114,1633,1510,1033],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n