Don’t spam Martin Lewis

Just wanted to share a little anecdote from a friend.

He had an account on moneysavingexpert forums and had successfully struck a balance between helping people with their questions and promoting his own sites with relevant links (his description). All OK until a little while ago when he must have come up on Martin’s radar. Like in previous times he got involved in a discussion about a product and snuck in a link to a review on his own site. Came back a few days later and saw the post was gone and he had a life ban. All his posts have now been removed so all his efforts have been thwarted ! However what surprised him was when he read an article by Martin that same day and saw it contained information if not the exact text from the page on his site!

Moral :

1) Don’t bother.
2) If you do, don’t be too cocky and once you get a reasonable number of posts / links on there quit while you’re ahead !

Thing is, most of the forum members must go to cashback sites anyway thought I, so it’s no great loss to him. However a vote going on at the site now reveals (at time of writing and 2500 votes) that 44% of voters don’t understand them, never heard of them, or can’t be bothered, while 49% occasionally, usually or always use cashback sites. Not as high as I had presumed given the members at that site. As cashback sites are one of the enemies of the content affiliate marketeer I spoke to 2 e-tailers that use cashback sites and both have said that they don’t drive “that much volume” one adding though, “they are an important part of the mix”.

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