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@john1124 136824 wrote:
Now lets say Mr. Molnick would have sued MGM Grand for their online casino is Europe, do you think for a second this court would have given him this judgement? Not on your life.
There were jokes about Molnik’s claim all over the net years ago. It was compared to Al Gore claiming he invented the internet.
I bet Molnick is backed by some other forces who would like to further weaken this industry and are using the fact that no online gambling outfit will set foot in the US.
Oh what a tangled web we weave!
@darko123 136803 wrote:
So this has nothing to do with Bodog ?
As it would seem this is a Playtech Issue ?
It looks like it is Bodog’s fault. There is no way they didn’t know about this.
PS. bodogaffiliate.com is now newbodogaffiliate.com in case anyone doesn’t know. A lot of people have been wondering what black hole that domain fell into.
I agree, I’m surprised people here have claimed Bodog were caught by surprise, it’s inconceivable they hadn’t heard about this.
Now that Bodog has lost it’s primary marketing tool ( it’s domain ), I wonder if they will be less picky about letting webmasters affiliate with them?
@daweller 136874 wrote:
I wonder if they will be less picky about letting webmasters affiliate with them?
Funny you should mention that, one of our writers wrote an article on that subject earlier today…
The loss in traffic via search engines could be significant enough for Bodog to now be forced to eat a little crow. Before they lost their domain name they were quite arrogant in how they treated their affiliates. They only allowed the top tier sites to advertise them and if there ever was a discrepancy they had the attitude of ‘screw you, your tiny, and we simply don’t need you’.
Now, Bodog may need to mend those fences they knocked down through the years as they will need to place more advertising on sites who still rank well for major search terms in Google, Yahoo, and MSN.
Good point CGW….they were so rude to me at one point that it’s highly unlikely I would ever place a banner for them on one of my sites. :tongue:
i think the sensible thing to do now is drop them. i have already. Being in the situation they are.. things will just get more messy. Affiliates will not be payed on time… especially the smaller affiliates.
and i agree with the article author “Before they lost their domain name they were quite arrogant in how they treated their affiliates. They only allowed the top tier sites to advertise them and if there ever was a discrepancy they had the attitude of ‘screw you, your tiny, and we simply don’t need you’.”
In my book i :flush: them :wavey:
I don’t think this will affect them that much, and they run a nice casino and poker room.
I have never had any problems with them, and they can easily afford the fine and switch.
I am not in the least bit worried at this juncture.
We’ll see what happens later, but so far this doesn’t impress me too much. I will stay tuned.
…never had a problem speaking to my AM. I’m hardly a big affiliate but they are by far the best converter for me. They have always given me some good advice which has led to more conversions.
If I e-mail them I always get a quick reply.
After making the switch to my links I had a couple of more sign ups so no complaints here.
Yes, they may be picky about who they affiliate with, they are fighting for exposure just like every other site.
Have to agree with crzylikafx – I’ve always found Bodog easy to deal with. Even when they initially turned me down, they gave very good advice and told me to apply again when I’d put it into practice. Once I’d done that, they took me on without any fuss. And I’m no big affiliate – I’m so far from the top tier, the top tier is just a distant dot.
Since signing up, they’ve performed much better than anyone else, so all of this comes as a big disapppointment.
To be honest, I’m surprised at all the hostility towards them and by how many have condemned them to the waste basket already.
Personally, I’m hoping Dominique’s on the right track – I’ll give them a week or so grace before making any drastic decisions.
Hopefully, they’ll come back stronger.
One thing is for sure, in the years I personally have been following this industry I have never seen affiliates more divided about a program. There are people that absolutely love them and people who absolutely despise them. I guess the key with Bodog is to use your own personal experience as a measurement of whether they are worth sticking with or flushing down the toilet.
PS – CGW is split right down the middle on this one. There are some on our staff who really try to push us to promote them, and others on our staff who really try and push us to stay away from them.
Seems like a fantastic opportunity for Antigua to step in, award Bodog a similar patent and show the US they mean business in their WTO dispute
I see nothing wrong with an approval process. You can find many affiliates complaining to aff managers on this forum to take down a spammer or a scraper – if all programs had such process in place most of this could have been avoided.
As far as Bodog’s process, I think it has nothing to do with how much traffic you get, but what your website looks like. Many of the webmasters rejected usually rely on a keyword-stuffed domain name with minimal if any content (you know who you are). And with Bodog having good enough SE ranking – it could afford to reject affiliates with such websites.
P.S. I have personally never been spammed by affiliate advertising Bodog before. I cannot say this about any other program I know.
i find bodog the the nutz around…..
Best converters, best cross promoters (poker to casino / sportsbetting etc ) always paid on time and the best AM’s with quick reply times and i can always pick up the phone and talk to my AM if i need a quick answer.
How many other programs have a direct phone no. to your AM and a general one to the Affiliate department !
i have seen lots of threads about this and it seems everyone who activly promotes them really likes them, but the ones that dont promote, dont generally like them.
Edit: Also when i signed up, i was not a top teir etc, infact i was only sending a handfull of players a month to all the sites i promoted and they never asked me how many players i can send a month or anything like that – they accept / reject by the quality of the site….nothing else
@Simmo! 136905 wrote:
Seems like a fantastic opportunity for Antigua to step in, award Bodog a similar patent and show the US they mean business in their WTO dispute
There we go!
I hope they think of that.
