An Amazon Affiliate Blog

Today I got a scorecard report from Overstock. Actually, this is the second one. A few days back they first sent a test email and I was expecting them to start sending the real ones. Finally it arrived today. I am not doing as good as just a few months back. I know things are not that good with the economy and all but the real problem for my account not doing well is because I use Overstock affiliate data feeds and for more than 2 months now, the feeds are not getting generated by them. I even sent an email a few weeks back and one person promptly replied that they are looking into it. It’s been a while now but still no fix to the problem. So, my website is filled with old data. As a result, many of the products are no longer available, or the price is different and so the bounce rate has been high. What’s worst, Google sees stale data and my site gets penalty.

Now I am all fine with receiving a scorecard from Overstock, but can I also give them a scorecard on how they are doing with their affiliate program? lol. Actually they are good except now and then. First they stopped giving the list price in their feeds to which another person replied that they are looking into it and that has not been fixed for almost a year now. Second, the feeds completely stopped. I hope they fix these two issues soon so that I can increase my score.