No Bullsh* Affiliate Marketing

Ok I’m going to make a prediction here. That way if I’m right, I get bragging rights for the rest of the year and if I’m wrong then life goes on and everybody forgets about this post because it was just a prediction anyway

AzoogleAds have been asking affiliates to place a pixel on their landing page that looks like this:

img src=”http://i.azjmp.com/XABC” width=”1″ height=”1″

(funny that I wasn’t asked to place one).

Note that this has happened to multiple sources of mine. Their reasoning, from this source is this:

(7:00:45 PM) source: they want to increase their comscore rank and if i place the pixel on my high traffic sites, it’ll appear as tho azoogle is getting the hits and therefore increase their rank.
(7:00:55 PM) source: i asked them why they care if their rank increases and they beat around the bush
(7:01:00 PM) BlueBobbo: LMFAO.
(7:01:03 PM) source: haha
(7:01:06 PM) BlueBobbo: OMG
(7:01:10 PM) BlueBobbo: I want to blog the fuck out of this
(7:01:22 PM) source: other strange thing is… (and u probably know the answer to it cuz ur a coder)….
(7:01:44 PM) source: if they REALLY just wanted to increase comscore ranking, they’d give everyone the same pixel….
(7:01:50 PM) source: at least each affiliate the same pixel…
(7:01:57 PM) BlueBobbo: WOW.
(7:02:03 PM) BlueBobbo: That’s freaken bullshit

Now lets take a quick trip back in the timeline of Azoogle Ads:

1. Azoogle boots nearly a couple dozen employees.
2. Cutting referral commissions.
3. Rebranding to Epic Advertising.
4. Asking affilaites to place pixels.

Hidden agenda possibly? Now the predictions.

1. This one is my prediction: I believe that they are making a last ditch effort to try to collect data before being bought out.
2. Another source prediction: They’re trying to measure their outreach so they know how much to sellout for.
3. Another source prediction: They might be taking data and using it for their search marketing company “Bazaar”.
   1. My addition to the 3rd: With the capital and resources they can basically just roll kids no problem.

So come on now. All this shit sounds like investors behind it. If all of this means absolutely nothing… This industry is officially boooooooooooorrring.