where are the contact details?

[emily miles]

Hi everyone,

I'm a new affiliate manager in the industry,doing my best to find affiliates to promote my product and there's something on my mind for quite sometime now so I thought the best thing would be to ask you guys and maybe get some answers because there might be something i am missing here and i am going crazy!!!

well - I am visiting A LOT of gaming sites these days and many of them DO NOT have any contact details or they are very hard to find - after all this is what you make your money off isn't it? promoting other peoples sites, so don't you want AM to contact you? please - why are you making it so hard....LOL - just put the contact button!!!

please if there's anyone out there (webmasters affiliate manager and all...) that can help me understand what the F@#$ is going on? is it just me? or you know what i am talking about? if there is something i am doing wrong or if there is ANYTHING i am missing like a secret system/button/code ? (i always try WHOIS- but usually the email address gets me nowhere...)

would appreciate all information you can share.....

[thepokerkeep]

Hi emily,

Welcome to GPWA.

Here is a link to all the info you need to make contact with GPWA Management.

[thepokerkeep]

I'm a little confused here, sorry.

Emily is a private member. She is claiming to be an affiliate manager.
Is this a typo?
Emily, are you an AM or do you own an affiliate portal?

[mojo]

Welcome Emily. I am curious too as why an affiliate manager is in the private section?

To answer your question, I do have my contact email on every site and believe there should always be a contact on sites. However, that is mostly for the players benefit. I would prefer not to be spammed of course. If players need anything at all they can contact me and I am readily available.

Becoming active here will help you contact affiates. Somehow aff managers find ways to contact us. Sometimes things just aren't that simple. I'm sure it will work out.

Best wishes with your new position.

after all this is what you make your money off isn't it? promoting other peoples sites, so don't you want AM to contact you?

Add: of course! But if we are working with progams we are already in contact and they have all of our registration info. Understand new programs come around quite frequently and we cannot keep up with it all sometimes. It's a matter of building your program naturally.

[Shaun O'neill]

Lol what killer post....

It looks like somebody just joined the company and her boss said take a look at this site and see what you can do.

Well my free advice is email every site you find and see what response you get!!!

But then again dont waste your time because the following will happen:

1. You will be called a spammer

2. People will hate your programe even if it is good and you have something to offer

3. If and when you join the GPWA as a paid partners you will have less susccess.

I would say work with teh comunity and you should see results, do not expect them over night.

Good luck.

Shaun

p.s. Speak to the GPWA and get your profile changed ASAP.

[aksana]

I have my contact details at the bottom of the site, and if you can't find any contact details of webmasters then I think they don't want to be contacted, or make it so hard that only real person could find them. Sorry, spam is a real big problem for us, I already closed my two email accounts due to a lot of spam.

Also you may try to find these webmasters at forums. And don't wait that all webmasters will start promoting your product. It's a difficult process.

[sophie marks]

Hey Emily,

I sometimes feel the same way, just do your best.

Sophie

[GFPC]

That is because you email the same affiliate various times. Even after they request you stop...


Mind you its hard to know what sites are owned by the same affiliate..

Try investing in the GPWA and get the attention of affiliates with your own forum thread..

Like Shaun said... join the community.

Coming into forums getting contacts and emailing them countless times does not work.

Cheers

Hey Emily,

I sometimes feel the same way, just do your best.

Sophie

[universal4]

Welcome Emily, and like someone stated, we need to get your status straightened out.

I can explain part of the reason for not having wide open contact details on websites in one word.

SPAM!!

In fact, I just read the notice sent out by Project Honeypot, and their data is very interesting.

Any email address that resides on a website, on average, WILL recieve 850 spam emails.... This is an average based upon 1 Billion emails (thats not a typo, they just hit that milestone this past week)

I personally think in the gaming sector those figures would be much higher.

And depending on default email accounts etc that figure of 850 is nothing.

I have had to stop using webmaster@ accounts due to spam, and in fact I had a few one time that had reached a point they were getting 6000 per day...(that's not a typo either).

Rick
Universal4

[GamTrak]

I have had to stop using webmaster@ accounts due to spam, and in fact I had a few one time that had reached a point they were getting 6000 per day...(that's not a typo either).

Ditto! It's email suicide to use your domain as your email contact these days. What a shame! I've been using a yahoo account just for that reason alone.

Welome aboard Emily!

[universal4]

Well I don't exactly agree that using an account at my own domain is a bad thing, but trying to use a webmaster@ anything is completly email suicide.

Also recommend against tech@, sales@, info@

The main tip I can personally give, whatever email you do decide to use whether it be on your own domain or Yahoo, gmail or whatever like Robin suggested...

Do NOT list it on the website in plain text!

Hide it with javascript, or put it on an image, or use a web-based forum for contact.

Rick
Universal4