Comments on: Do You Like Affiliate Networks Using DirectTrack?

By: brendan

brendan — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 22:21:15 +0000

I recall making the decision in 2003 to build or not to build, we chose to build. There were new CPA and Affiliate companies coming into the market daily, they all used direct track. Many of those companies are not around today, and those that are and still use direct track have been successful because they have pushed it to its max and they have made up for their lack of proprietary technology and use of an antiquated system by offering good customer service, or higher payouts. Motive built advent and now advent 2.0 to support our CPA | Affiliate Network. It was not an easy task, took forever, had some initial performance issues, and for those early years we would have been fine with Direct Track. However, looking at the industry today I have never been prouder of a decision, if you want to compete in the CPA and Affiliate Space as a “network” build tech.. It good to see Advaliant, and PepperJam invest in technology and I hope to see more, Motive is in good company as the list of companies who don’t use direct track is still short.

By: Raman

Raman — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 19:13:31 +0000

HI all,

We want to launch new affiliate network….
A bug confusion with directrack and selfone…
Its not easy to develop a new one… And directrack has lots of -ve feedbacks…
Hows alstrasoft script? valuednetwork is usgin the same and its works fine…
What you suggest which one is best? Should we go for direct track for instant launch or develop a new one.. Or where we can get a clone of any successful network?

By: Billy

Billy — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 23:47:34 +0000

i have the same opinion

By: upp

upp — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 03:55:17 +0000

I can’t stand direct track networks and refuse to work with them.

By: Andy Crofford

Andy Crofford — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 22:23:47 +0000

I think DirectTrack sucks. I like Market Leverage and Copeac but hate having to use their system.

By: RocketProfitPhil

RocketProfitPhil — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 15:55:16 +0000

I would just like to clarify for all - RocketProfit DOES NOT, and has not ever used DirecTrack. We have our own platform.

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By: Affiliate Confession

Affiliate Confession — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 20:52:11 +0000

Hey Zac,

I’m not fond of Direct Track either, don’t like the way sub id’s work, stats are kind of a pain to get what you really want to look at, the way campaigns are deployed is silly and over all it’s just not a very user friendly system. They use it over at TripAdvisor.com as well and that’s where I was first exposed to it around 4 years ago. I like to run offers at Azoogle just because they’re so much easier to work with.

I’m not sure if it’s part of the way DT works, but with the networks that use it I have a terrible time getting a good quality score from Google when I direct link in an Adwords campaign and when I go to look up keywords using the DT links I get completely irrelevant words. I never have that issue with Azoogle.

By: Nicholas Chase

Nicholas Chase — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 17:05:43 +0000

Zac, fir a newbie like myself, I ‘m just trying to wrap my brain around this whole marketing thing. I’m currently running five blogs, four with ads from CJ, PepperJam, ML, and ClickBank. The fifth one is just to learn Wordpress.

I know this ‘blogging for profits’ method, is the cheap and least profitable way to start, and a very minimal effort before I start the whole PPC-CPA-CPM-SEO expenditure adventure.

Thank you for an excellent and detailed post! Respectully, Nicholas Chase - future Super Affiliate

By: peter bordes

peter bordes — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 13:40:56 +0000

Zac
Good post and a topic that does not get enough coverage. Most of the partner companies we work with who use Direct Track give the system very mixed reviews. We made the right decision to develop our own system when we launched Advaliant. That being said we have realized that the market is shifting and in need of innovation. So we are about to launch an entirely new system this fall that takes performance marketing systems to a new level.