r/vpn reddit moderator lugh attacking pia again for affiliate marketing.

robert_lazar

http://www.reddit.com/r/VPN/comments/323ack/the_real_truth_about_affiliate_programs/
 

lugh 0 points1 point2 points an hour ago* (1 child)

Do they vpn's pay you to post positive reviews?
NO.

They essentially do, if you want someone to sign up to a provider via your affiliate link you have to be sell it to the potential buyer by shockhorror giving a positive review of them.

Which do you think is going to work better?:

buyer: I want to buy a VPN, what is recommended
affiliate: ProviderX is terrible for x,y,z reasons, you should use my affiliate link and get an account with them

or

buyer: I want to buy a VPN, what is recommended
affiliate: ProviderX is amazing for x,y, z reasons, you should use my affiliate link and get an account with them

.
 Please note that the original material attacking the affiliate program was posted by Derek A Zimmer from vikingvpn. It is available as a link on the front page of r/vpn!! unbelievable. It is also posted on viking's own blog!

robert_lazar

here is the original posting from vikingvpn's own blog!!! written none other than by micha greene, derek a zimmers "buddy".

 https://vikingvpn.com/blogs/off-topic/beware-of-vpn-marketing-and-affiliate-programs

Look at the page and see how they put pia at the top of their list. There is a war going on against pia and it cannot be tolerated.

 

Written by Micah Greene on 1/23/2014

Beware of False Reviews - VPN Marketing and Affiliate Programs

When I began alpha testing what would eventually become the technology behind VikingVPN, I had no idea what marketing on the internet was like. I only knew network security and speeds, and I strongly disliked the performance of the VPN services that I had tried out. I saw an opportunity to create a service for people like me who were fed up with slow, unreliable, and shoddy networks. Before joining up with my partners and actually starting a serious company, all I knew about internet marketing was that you paid for ads on ad networks and users clicked those ads to hopefully sign up for your service.

Now, two years later, I have a much greater understanding of how this business works. It is dirty, it is shady, and it is cutthroat. Competitors will pay black-hat parties to DDoS your website or services, they will pay script kiddies with botnets to commit massive click-fraud on your ads, they will pay individuals huge sums of money to spam websites with praise for their product, and they will pay people to praise themselves and denounce others en-masse in "review" websites.

The VPN market is not one of healthy competition, and it does not operate in the best interests of the privacy minded consumer. Unless you are talking to someone you personally know and trust, it is hard to get an honest review about any service.

The biggest evidence for this is with a little research, you can find out who is paying the most affiliate cash, and compare that to who "wins" the VPN reviews. Invariably, the ones that pay the most tend to show up at the top of the lists, and the ones that don't pay affiliate cash either don't even get a review, or get shoved down to the bottom of the site in obscurity.

Let me be frank. These sites are nothing more than "linkfarming" sites in disguise. They put up as many affiliate links as they can, then give the highest paying ones praise to rake in money. There is no other motivation.

catcher749

And Derek Zimmer and lugh are the only ones allowed to comment, lmao. That place is so corrupt.