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Contact UsPartner & Affiliate Ad Monitoring
Get the tools you need to detect and stop affiliate and partner ad violations.
See the Data in Action!
- Monitored Ads: Paid & Organic Search, Display, Landing Page Offers, & Twitter on Mobile & Desktop
- Key Metrics: Display/Destination URLs, number of times seen, ad copy, page rank, and keywords
- Reporting Options: Easy filtering, charting, and exporting options
- Automatic Notifications: Screengrabs with date/time stamp, alerts, and email templates
- Customizable Rules: Customize detection rules to fit your program.
Affiliate Ads Rules Detection
Compliance Monitoring auto-detects the following common affiliate ad rule violations:
- Direct Linking from Ads: Monitor affiliates who direct link from paid search or display ads.
- Trademark Use on Search Engines: Detect use of your trademarks on brand, brand plus keywords, & in ad copy text. Learn about trademark monitoring.
- Rank Rules on Paid Search: Get alerts when partners & competitors out rank you. Learn about Super Affiliate strategies.
- Offer Monitoring: Track publication of offers & promo codes in paid search ads & on landing pages. Learn about offer monitoring.
- Twitter Links: Find affiliates promoting your links on Twitter.
Affiliate Ad Monitoring Technology
Optimizing affiliate ad detection relies on our SmartCrawler™ Technology which adapts to the market as it evolves:
- Auto-ID Affiliates: Auto-identifies affiliate network, affiliate ID, & who is in your program.
- Smartcrawler™ Keywords: Commonly abused brand-plus keywords auto-added for free e.g. ‘your brand’ + ‘promo codes’ or ‘free shipping’ (available with Pro & Ultimate packages).
- De-Cloaking: De-cloaking strategies are deployed against affiliates who try to hide their links from our crawlers.
- Randomized Crawling: To stay a step ahead, crawlers randomize crawl times, keywords, and geos.
- Geo-Control: Configurable geo-targeting to the country, region, & city for clients with a local focus like telecom or travel.
- Vast Footprint: Worldwide monitoring across 9+ search engines and 1,000’s of publishers, monitored hourly.
Affiliate Profiles
Get details on over 25,000 affiliates who advertise on search engines or Twitter:
- Unique URL: Each profile has a unique URL associated with it to make sharing easy. The URL can be found at the top of the profile.
- Potential Threats: View threat levels based on rule adherence across our community of clients to better assess new program applicants or affiliates currently in your program.
- Aliases: Find out all known URLs and affiliate networks associated to each affiliate.
- Merchants Relationships: Discover which merchants, affiliate networks, and publishers work together.
- Contact Info: Store contact names, emails, & notes.
Record & Monitor Affiliate Ad Complaints
Submit affiliate ad violation complaints to search engines, competitors, and affiliates using:
- Screenshots: Date/time stamped screenshots.
- Alerts: Configure daily, weekly, or monthly alerts.
- Compliance Emails: Send compliance emails to anyone. Auto-fill email addresses from your stored contacts.
- Email History: Access email history from a simple report & from affiliate profiles.
- Email Templates: Design and store email templates.
Affiliate & Partner Monitoring Resources
Here are a few helpful resources for monitoring affiliates & partners:
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