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[MarkPearson]

We at rosesbydesign have just launched a 'Top Referring Site Reward Program'

The way it works is if you have a website or a signature space and you would like to help promote our unique personalised roses then link to use using a text link, banner or recommendation text.

The website or referrer who sends us the most traffic within a set month will be rewarded with one of 3 prizes.

This can also be used with our affiliate program which pays 15% commission on all sales.

LINK TO US

If you like our site and products then link to us!

To link to www.rosesbydesign.com from any of your web pages, simply copy the HTML code on our site and paste it into any web page.

WE REWARD TOP REFERRING SITES

We offer an incentive to all sites that link to us and send us visitors. The sites that send us the most hits in a set month will be rewarded with a prize. We offer a prize each month for the top 3 referrers!

The prizes for the sites that sends us the most visitors in a set month are listed below.

Top Referring Site = £100 Cash

Second Most Referrals = £50 Cash

Third Most Referrals = £25 Cash

It can be found here:

http://www.rosesbydesign.com/linktous.php

Contact me if your interested in taking part.

This will be an ongoing reward plan month after month.

[clairemackaness]

If I already have links on my site does that count?

[MarkPearson]

Yes, Claire

It will be rewarded to the individual or website that sends us the most traffic within a set month (from begining to end.

We will announce the top 3 winners at the end of each month and thank them with the rewards of £100, £50 and £25.

If the idea proves to be a success we will increase the reward fund monthly :-)

[bwglaw]

the 'http' is missing from your signature after = ;)

[clairemackaness]

ok cool

[MarkPearson]

the 'http' is missing from your signature after = ;)

So it was, all fixed now :-)

[Cornish Steve]

Smart idea, Mark. You're really setting the pace!

[IMEX Sourcing Services]

Super Idea Mark....I should be In on this on one soon..I will definately put up a link, once my Retail site is up.

Ash

[MarkPearson]

I am thinking of a way I can reward the small guys who can link to us and send us some site visitors but not really have a chance of scooping the main reward prizes.

After all every little helps and small amounts of traffic do add up....

Any ideas anyone? of how I can make this fair and get everyone involved

[www.sitepal.co.uk]

good idea!

[bwglaw]

I think it is a good idea but not sure if it is 'foolproof' since, lets say I have a link on my site, I could click it so many times to generate a high referral rate with no sales your end and I get £100. Many others could do this and you would effectively be 'paying per click' at such a high rate.

If the highest is only 30 clicks to your site, that will cost you just over £3.00 per click! Whether this is value for money depends on how much sales you generate from that.

I think you may need to include a minimum number of clicks if you want to go ahead with this i.e. 100 referrals. A fairer strategy would be to pay £0.02 per click at least then everyone will be rewarded one way or another and many people won't bother to click their own link to generate just £0.02.

I am not trying to deflate the idea but would not want to see you fork out unnecessarily on a scheme that might not be entirely foolproof. You have excellent banners and I think you should consider joining an affiliate programme, which will reach a wider audience.

Jonathan

[MarkPearson]

posted twice...

read below

[fastfences]

Well put, Jonathan.

I instantly tallied the £175.00 and thought that is one heck of a payout. I would want to receive at least £1500 business to justify such an expense. Obviously Mark's 'done his sums' and I'm not being critical, just expressing surprise.
Best wishes with it, Mark.
Cheers, Nigel

[MarkPearson]

Hi Jonathan,

Thanks for your thoughts.

If we have people sad enough to want to click their own link so many times that they have a chance of being rewarded the referral prize it would be a shame, but also I can track each clicks IP address so maybe I will add this as a clause to provent this.

It would very soon become obvious what they were doing and they would be removed from the potential winning line up.

The whole idea is so I can thank the individuals and websites that send us unique visitors which in turn will generate interest and sales in my product.

The reward program can be used in conjunction with the affiliate program so people can earn a potential 15% per sale as well as the chance to enter the refferals reward program.

For people who just want to enter the referrals contest then they simply send traffic to any page of our website and it will be tracked.

[Coding Monkey]

Just so you know, Mark. AOL users don't have the same IP, it actually changes every page they go on, and I could quite easily create a script that looked like you had unique visitors coming to your website once every 10 minutes (or between 0-10 minutes so it looked less suspicious) with different addresses, browsers, hostnames, cookie values and so on.

I think you're better off with a referral system that pays out when someone buys from you, rather than visits your website.

[MarkPearson]

Hi Tom,

Seems some people may try and cheat their way to the rewards if what your saying is do-able :-(

Just for my information...

Can you get these automated visitors to move from 1 page to another like a normal vistitor would when browsing a website?

I have a complex tracking program that sends me live stats of site visitors and also records then so I can backtrack.

If this information can not be changed to look like natural visitors from these automated programs you talk of, then I think we are ok and if we spot any suspicious activity we can disqualify and remove such entry.

The fact that real website visitors call, email and enter our website prize draw and leave feedback would also arouse suspicion if someone with high enough traffic referral to have a chance to win any of the named rewards.

This of course will be down to me. And if TOM at CodingMonkeys came top refferrer at the end of the month we would all now frown upon you - lol

INFORMATION I RECEIVE ABOUT EACH VISITOR:

Internet Host

IP Address

Browser Version

Platform

and a few more

Thank you for bringing this to my attention.

From the information I have shown above do you think this would still be a problem now I have made things clear?

[bwglaw]

Mark, you have good intentions and good ideas amongst trustworthy people, like the loyal members here, who are supportive of the same. Like I said, I think your idea is good but unfortunately there will be a handful of people who are looking to make a quick buck and in my experience I have dealt with sad/nasty people.

The affiliate programme may be the best route since they will have the experts and advanced technology to hand to protect you and themselves.

I wish you well with your venture, which appears to be doing well. I will order a rose when I get back to the UK!

[Coding Monkey]

Mark, everything can be copied. Your tracking system is really not that complex to monitor all of that information. If a browser can do it, I can do it in a script. You have to understand, is someone likely to do this for a few hundred pounds? I really doubt it

But, let me give you an example. I could have a script randomly go onto your website, which will display Internet Explorer 6.0 as the browser 80% of the time, Firefox 15% of the time, Safari 3% and Opera 2%. It could never have the same IP address, and it would pick, on random, a page to go to. It might pick a form and post the information to you, with valid input, such as an e-mail address (but not a real one, but one that is a valid address). It might look at ordering a product, but never get around to it.

I'm just pointing out a flaw, but the likely hood of anyone doing it has to be next to none. I'm always one for a challenge, and I can't be bothered. Just be more weary that you can't trace AOL users as much as you'd like.

[Tin]

Hi Mark

I agree completely with Tom. There's plenty of ISP's who rotate your IP address every time you log on which makes the idea wide open to abuse and you can bet there'll be some sad people who will spot the opportunity for your easy cash before you can say 192.64.81.14... 213.194.84.66... 85.165.97.174. :wink:
From the short time I've been a member here there seems to be a lot of genuine people but what's to stop the casual (non-member) visitor reading your post and adding a link to a number of his sites and running your idea into the ground?

Nigel makes a good point too, so treading carefully might be a good idea.

Have a great New Year and all the very best with your roses.

Ray

[Top Hat]

Hi Mark,

If you think about it, it does not matter if someone sends you fake clicks, so long as your promo gets you more fresh clicks from new sources (sources that aren't fake!!), other than it would be very annoying to payout a fraudster

But you can solve it by having a minimum conversion rate, or qty of sales to qualify.

So rewarding the little guy (other than your affiliate scheme)
How about 3 prizes
* Most clicks (with minimum of sales made)
* Highest conversion rate (with minimum sales made) The affiliates who presell your product are the ones you want to encourage, they work for you, they don’t send lot of clicks but they do have a high conversion rate and will be responsible for most of your affiliate sales.
* New member (who set up links and sent some clicks) just a random new affiliate who's signed up this month

[MarkPearson]

Hi TopHat,

That may be the best direction to go.

Thank You.

Makes sense.

It is correct that any click fraud should be outweighed by genuine clicks and sales.

[Magsite]

I'm looking into it, great offer!

Lisa

[Ravenfire]

Mark I am setting up my affiliates page should I put what you suggested on here or are you on another affiliate scheme?

Thanks

Toni

[MarkPearson]

Hello Toni,

I run my own program but have also signed up with one of the big boy programs www.paidonresults.com

My own private program has had some success and brought us around 100 affiliate members in around 3 months. It has also made quite a lot of sales.

But I have since on advice from the top affiliates, who do not like joining private programs been advised that if I want to take this to the next level I need to go with one of the well known programs.

These programs cost and setup was around £1K, but half that was safe commission funds so will bring me lots of sales before I have to dig my hand in my pocket again.

In comparison, The paid on the results program has brought us 150 affiliates and more sales within 22 days than my private program.

If you want any advise msn me...

[fridayteam]

Mark - why not just reward the clicks that made sales for your cash prizes and offer a links page for all of your affiliates. If you are having a high volume of traffic, then that is a good enough way to reward the smaller sites?

Everyone else - I highly recommend Marks affiliate program. It has produced the quickest return that I have seen in an affiliate program in a while.