Azoogle (no I wont link to them) has done yet another thing that disgruntles me. See I like to test these CPA companies ALOT to see who’s on the up and up. So I gave Azoogle a taste last year by running some simple text links and banners on some sites I own:

Only $22K and change. Not a lot I know. The thing you have to realize is these sites run themselves. This is income for which I do ZERO, I repeat ZERO work for. In the beginning sure, it required work, SEO, traffic building and all that wonderful jazz but this is the payout from a few sites that run on autopilot. In case you forgot, autopilot income is better than sex. Yes, you can quote me on that.

Now here’s this whole story that actually turns out be one big circle jerk with me kind of eating my words this morning. You see, CPA Affiliates brought out the email this morning and I saw it on my morning blog rounds. So congrats to CPA Affiliates  for having the first dibs on this. (Proper credit is appointed to good bloggers).

My email is the same and here it is:

Dear Publisher, At AzoogleAds, we believe that some of the most valuable business relationships can be developed through word of mouth; we believe in it so strongly that we even have a program designed to reward such referral business!We are changing our program starting February 1st, 2008, and we wanted to give you the highlights:

You must maintain a minimum revenue level of $1,000 in your primary account on a monthly basis in order to receive any referral payouts for that month. As always, we’d love to hear any questions or comments that you have; please send us your thoughts at AZreferral@AzoogleAds.comSincerely,
Mitchell Richler
Vice President of Network Distribution

So this really blows. I was actually going to feature them in my upcoming Affiliate Directory I am putting together for the blog and forum. If you remember me giving Market Leverage a great recommendation WITHOUT a referral link, it’s because they have have excellent communication and always keep me in on the loop for new offers. Azoogle does not do shit and to tell you the truth they got rid of my old Affiliate Manager who made the 20K+ possible last year. Which is quite ironic because I joined IncentaClick last week where she is NOW my AM!  I have spoken with my new Affiliate Manager from Azoogle only once and that was about a week and a half ago. I wanted to negotiate a higher payout on two of the offers I had ran last year. Unfortunately, they told me that since I didnt do enough volume they could not do this.

That’s f#cking hilarious when I can shift over to 2 different networks right now and make $0.10 higher on one offer and $0.20 on another WITHOUT negotiating for a higher payout. I had to kindly explain to my AM that the site runs on auto. I dont do shit for that money. Here’s one better. I got an email the other day asking what I could do to push more volume for the top advertiser in the screenshot above. Hilarious.

So will this post likely get me in trouble or possibly (mysteriously) banned from the network? It very will could. Does Ruck give a shit? Nope, not a bit. I will shift them f#ckers right over to the other networks and make back $0.30 on both offers more in less than 2 minutes.

So now my idea of pushing Affiliates into Azoogle because they have paid me month in and month out is over. With the experience I had, I can still work with them and take my bumps but I would feel awful about referring someone there. It looks like I will be leaving them very shortly. Probably after this post, more sooner than later.

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