PepperJam Network Review
You only get two choices on this one as far as I am concerned. Honestly, do any of you make decent money with PepperJam Network? Please, someone point me to someone who makes money with PepperJam.
Most if not all of the affiliate marketers I have talked to feel the same way that I do, that something is amiss with Pepperjam. Something is just not right. Something smells like a scam.
Lots of impressions, only a few clicks actually tracked and a very low conversion. I swear that freaking ClickBank crap closes better than PepperJam.
What’s More: I can’t seem to find one negative review about PepperJam… not one! Is PepperJam the “baby Jesus” of the internet > or is everyone just scared to speak the truth? I dunno…
And one other thing: they did this whole “Meet The Affiliates” thing a few months back on the PepperJam Blog. But how many of those people ACTUALLY make money with PepperJam? My suspicion is that most if not all of them has dropped them like a bad habit.
What do you guys say? Is my search engine traffic just not targeted properly? Or do you think PepperJam sucks too? Please, be honest with me. I don’t want to waste my time or clicks on something that sucks or is shady.
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Allyn,
As a network we don’t get paid unless our affiliates convert.
I appreciate your frustration, especially considering I was there where you are when I first got involved in affiliate marketing in the late 90’s.
I just couldn’t believe that you could spend thousands of dollars, generate thousands of clicks, and not make an ROI!
I don’t actually remember ever getting as angry as you appear, but there is a lesson to be learned here.
The lesson is that the “problem” is your strategy.
If something doesn’t work you ned to fix it.
If you are generating tons of clicks and they aren’t converting it’s likely because you’re either generating poorly targeted traffic or the offer you selected doesn’t convert with the type of traffic you are generating. I know the knee-jerk there is to blame the network, but the network doesn’t get paid unless you convert – if anything, the conversation really needs to be between you and the advertiser….the advertiser’s backend…the way they deliver value, present their product / service – that’s what determines conversion….along with how targeted the traffic is that you send them.
Going back to the old days.
I’m not sure how much hard cash you are losing but in my early “part-time” days I lost tens of thousands of dollars before I made serious profit.
It’s a process that requires you to change (quickly) if something isn’t working.
In terms of whether or not affiliates are making money on Pepperjam Network let’s just say things have never been better at Pepperjam – conversions network wide have never been higher and the overall volume of leads and sales coming thorugh our network on a daily basis would make your head spin.
I invite you to e-mail me at kris@pepperjam.com and I’d be happy to check out your account and make some recommendations.
I’m more interested in helping you make money than us spending too much time talking about failure.
BTW – have a great weekend! I’m writing from Miami where I’m on vacation with my wife for her birthday…if you write me today I probably won’t respond until tomorrow or Monday.
Kris Jones
CEO,
Pepperjam
Hey Al,
Lawrence Miller here; not a master of much just yet, but I am taking Court’s Keyword Academy course, so I’d say I’m on my way.
Sometime ago when I was subscribing to Gray Conn’s RSS feed, PaperJam was something he started pushing. Since I was already forming a bad opinion of the man at the time and thinking of pulling the plug on my subscription soon, his PaperJam sales pitch was the decider. I pulled the plug on the jerk.
I knew even then that there was something fishy about PaperJam, especially since Gary Conn was pushing it like it was his–and maybe it was or is. I have always been pretty good at spotting scams. I spent a lifetime doing it to protect my livelihood.
Listen here buddy, I enjoy the hell out of every video you make, even when the production standards are bit less than optimal, which isn’t very often, by the way. As long as the the quality and sincerity of the talking head, you, continues to shine forth, you will do well with your videos. Fact is, a little miscue in your productions once in a while only adds to your overall believability. Keep um comin, my man.
Cheers,
Lawrence
Hi Lawrence,
First off, I am glad you are working with Court in the Keyword Academy. When I noticed he was opening up the private membership I though of you because that course offers everything from beginning to advanced and I know you were looking for something like that. It is a very good way to go and I am glad you found it!
As far as PepperJam goes, I really just think it is good old fashioned smoke and mirrors. Pretty site, CEO Kris Jones who is out in front and accessible, but on the backside, something just ain’t right!
Thanks Lawrence!
AL
It seems to me the real trick would be to find out if it’s converting for advertisers. My off-the-cuff guess would be that yes, it does convert for them or else they would pull their campaign. Otherwise, they’ve got some top-notch salespeople who can keep Internet clueless corporate types bamboozled with pretty reports and hot sales babes.
If they’re converting for advertisers but not converting for publishers we know what that means.
It might be a good idea to contact the featured advertisers and see if this little bit of information can be determined.
As always, Frank, you are a clear voice of reason and wisdom… like a Grandfather, LMAO!
I added a link to this blog on my blogroll. I love it.
@Julio,
hey man, if you weren’t my friend in real life, I woulda pitched that comment into Akismet! LOL
I really like the new design of your site. Good shiz bro!
AL
Imp Clicks CTR
32,656 4,637 14.20% 0.60% $0.13 28 <—sales
I have been thinking the same thing. There are my stats for the last 6 months for some HIGHLY HIGHLY targeted traffic I give them.
28 sales in 4637 Clicks!! Looks like I’m beating you with my .6 of a % conversion rate!
There is nothing I can do for that one though as they are the only one I can find that has an affiliate program for what I am pushing.
Hey Allyn,
I just stumbled upon your blog and I like it a lot. It’s not true that there are no negative reviews about Pepperjam Network. I’ve talked about it some while back here:
http://www.reviewpot.com/pepperjam-network-is-ebays-little-sister/
Cheers.
@ Paul–hey, I read your review, and I appreciate you letting me know about it. Looks like you had a different issue than mine. I just wonder why their crap does not convert. Or in my offline world terminology “why that shit don’t close”
LOL
Between you and Frank, Allyn, I think the argument has been laid out.
Looking forward to Pepperjam’s comments on this blog.
Yes, it’s true that our 2 issues are different, but in my opinion, they are just 2 different symptoms of the same problem: a shitty affiliate network.
Hey Al, so far I love your blog and the way you present the information. Straight foward, 100% no b*ll and I like it.
Regarding Pepper Jam, the more I deal with affiliates the more I believe in developing your own products, even if you sell them to a cheaper audience ($7 script, etc).
the more control you have in your business the better…
@Gabriel
Yep, I agreen 100%. I really like $7 script info stuff. But I still like to keep a good balance of affiliate offers too, just in case something goes in the crapper on me, LOL.
Thanks for stopping by and commenting, I appreciate it!
Allyn – Good stuff, you and I frequent the same circles. I have no opinion about PJ other than what I read – and most is not good. Keep it up.
Kent F.
P.S. – I fertilized today – yippee.
Hey Kent–nice to meet you! if you need anything, I am here to offer what ever help I can. Also, good job with fert! If you need any lawn care advice, I got pletny-o-that too, as you know! THanks for stopping in and leaving comments, I appreciate it.
AL
Hey Allyn,
Love the blog, and love this post. I used PJ a very short time and then junked it. I’m not an expert by any shot, and not in the same league as you yet much less Court, Grizz, and them, but CJ converted some, Amazon Associates has done very nicely for me, and Adsense keeps getting better, but PJ was nothing. Ever. At best, IMO, they’re a terrible network and most likely there’s some scam level stuff going on. That’s my two pennies for what they’re worth. Thanks for the encouraging posts, and keep it up! Love the feeling of online comraderie when you can find it.
Cheers,
Shane
It would be awesome if you did a video on the good affiliate networks and the bad ones.
Maybe now would be a good time for a Twitter campaign pointing to your video. It might get the right attention or warn others to stay away from PJ.
@Kris
Hey man, I had to dig your comment outta Akismet, sorry about that,
anyway, I don’t spend any money at all on marketing. All of my traffic is 100% organic from the search engines. I don’t know how much more targeted it could be.
All I can do is compare your network to others I use and see that your stuff does not convert. I am not the only one that sees and feels this way.
AL
I have one site with pepperjam and I never sold anything on it. It is fairly new but it gets decent traffic. I was just thinking of pitching the ads for something else.
Jeeze Allyn I go away for a week,and you are off with your own scam calling out! I used Pepperjam as part of Vic’s contest last year – I never got the traffic of the leaders but I know they reported similar figures to you – or worse.
@Lis
LOL, well, I just had to find out if I was the only one who just could not make money with Pepperjam. As you know, it is very discouraging to show their ads to all of your visitors and somehow, some way, you get only a few clicks and almost no conversions. That is the crux of the matter, I almost don’t think the clicks are getting tracked, let alone the conversions.
But as my Six Sigma training tells me: what you “think” only matters if you can validate and backup with true data, and since I don’t have time to research and dig out that data, (because I am a part timer) I must just have to drop PPJM like a bad habit and stick my clicks over on CJ or Amazon.
AL
Oh 6 Sigma- don’t swear at me! Bad memories of that particular management fad! I’d say don’t waste too much PJ
Six Sigma, now there’s a bigger scam than PJ will ever be.
I don’t think they are scam. Of Course a Network wants everyone to make money so they can collect transaction fees. I have made a couple grand using their system. But I have also lost money using the same tactics. It seems like only 25% of their merchant pixels work. Never used them too much after that. Be fair to pepperjam…there is no scam…..The technology just sucks.
I actually really like pepperjam. Employees have good intentions (even though I didn’t come up on the radar for them to actually contact me). Obviously pepperjam is not a scam. We all know that Networks need to make money off those transaction fees. I have made a couple grand with pepperjam network, but on the flip end I have lost money trying promote others with zero conversions. I’m guessing that the technology doesn’t track the correct way…..or only 25% of the merchants’ pixels fire. Either way…..It seemed more trouble than its worth.
Will
Lis, I’ve been wondering where you were.
Glad you’re back.
she’s been swimming with the fishes!
Pepperjam is the worst network I have ever worked with. Like you, I am also surprised to see virtually zero scam reports about them. But my last blog entry was about how they scammed me and If you go to DP forum there are many “not paid” reports on the official pepper jam network thread.
Bottom line is many big guns who promoted pepperjam has dropped them, There should be a reason. But they are too afraid to tell it because they used to promote pj to get the $7 affiliate commission.
Hi, I’m a newbie to Affiliate Marketing, which affiliate programs should i join? I hope somebody can provide me some answers…. pleaseeeeee
Elaine
stay tuned here and I will do vids showing my faves. Just for a start, you should go get an affiliate over at Amazon
Thanks, Allyn. For a merchant, which affiliate network is not too expensive to join, yet effective?
Hi Elaine,
Actually, I do not know who to send you to for what you need. I work on the “publisher” side of the affiliates, meaning I send buyers to the affiliates. You are wanting to be on the other side and I don’t know who is good for that as far as cost wise. sorry about that.
AL
I mean, for a small business selling beauty products?
Hi Allyn,
Sorry to bother you again. Because I have been googling about this information but there are too much paid news… is there any forum or post of anything that I should look into?
Whew! Thank god I found this blog because although I’ve been away from the affiliate game for awhile and getting back into the fold, I do realize the importance of qualified and targeted traffic. It’s not always about the volume, but many here already understand that concept.
I eagerly signed up for Pepperscam and was sending them targeted traffic, not lots, but quality. I’m telling I didn’t convert anything, zero, zilch, nada! I was like this can’t be true, no way in hell.
To make a long story short, I agree with Allyn, something just doesn’t seem right and tonight I pulled ALL of their links and banners off of my sites.
I’ve been in the affiliate industry since the late 90’s.
Pepperjam has been on the sceen since then and the company has made a very significant contribution to moving the industry forward.
I see blogs like this sprout up, gain some steam by some newbie straight talking blue collar guy (that’s you Allyn)….only to eventually crumble because the blogger either drinks himself back to rehab (yeah, that you again Allyn) and almost never makes enough money to remain credible.
The internet is large enough to allow you to have followers no matter what – most people don’t like want-a be’s (you again Allyn) who don’t make real money.
Back to Pepperjam. This guys have like 100 employees and generate millions of dollars every month in revenue. That’s pretty serious – the idea you’d suggest this guys are scammers is just stupid.
You drink on your videos….you are a role model to angry people, but nobody of any credibility.
@JEff,
Thanks for commenting but not leaving a URL, and I appreciate that you have insulted my readers in your last sentence… great of ya! So what kind of conversion rate do you get with Pepperjam? ya know, being that you are one of the internet’s elites and all. Also, do you expect me to believe that having 100 employees ads credibility? I could name businesses over the years that had many more and screwed people outta millions.. Bernie Madoff come to mind? LMAO @ your ignorance.
also, I am not aware of any other internet marketing video blogs where the site owner drinks beer… but you claim you have seen a few who have failed… can you point me to them, I’d like to make some new friends. And what’s wrong with being blue collar anyway?
Finally, there is a Baptist preacher in Kentucky I know of with your same name… you him?
Yeah you really must watch that on-screen drinking Allyn – you might get as bad a reputation as, oh I don’t know, Vic? LMAO “Jeff” – the question is not whether or not Pepperjam is making money – its whether their affiliates are?
You guys might want to take a look at here. Pepperjam cannot even counter attack these accuses by few bloggers. Look at the pathetic way the owner reply to this scam claims.
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=691231&page=44&highlight=pepperjam+network
I own a mattress and bedroom furniture store, and was thinking of joining Pepperjam as a merchant. Should I, shouldnt I?? If not, where do I go to find quality affiliates? I have some great e-commerce stores, and am looking for a real affiliate network.
jon.
@Jon
I think you might do just fine with PPJM. You see, it is me, the publisher who gets screwed cuz their “tracking” is effed up. For you, you will probably do fine. Like the boss said above, he doesn’t get paid if stuff doesn’t convert. So you will get conversions… it is us publishers who get screwed. follow?
yes, i follow you… but if i do it, i certainly want to do it right. i was with CJ but that went to hell… partly my fault for not having enough time to devote to it.
[...] Now just so you know guys, I didn’t show you too many specific items that I have sold on Amazon because that would reveal some of my targeted keywords, and as Vic says, it’s not a good idea to share all your sites with the public. That’s why I showed you two funky items that people purchased while browsing Amazon and my cookie was baking down dropped in their browsers. I did check and I actually sold 4 hammocks (not telling the exact kind of course) in 13 days as compared to selling NONE with Pepperjam over 18 months! Here is my PepperJam Review. [...]
I have been doing some research and as a merchant and I am really having a hard time finding which affiliate program to join. I was going to join Pepperjam or Share A Sale. Is there anyone who can point me in the right direction. I have read a ton of mixed reviews. Any help would be great! Thank you!
My partners and I have a startup company with a very powerful website to help buyers and sellers deal with the mortgage crisis and real estate slump. My partners and I are all professionals with specific talents and expertise. The website requires monthly membership and members can sign up for an Annual Membership, billed to CC once annually, a Quarterly Membership, Billed to CC once every 3 Months or a Monthly Membership billed to CC every Month. Is pepperjam or clickbank able to handle memberships like this or is it mainly setup for just product sales? I am very knowledgeable in my markets, but I am new to affiliate marketing and would like to leave it to someone who knows what they are doing. Thanks in advance.
dennis, your post was not removed, it was in que for approval. It looks to me like you have a LOT to learn about the internet and the way web 2.0 works prior to working up a membership site.
Either way, I dunno if Pepperjam does that type thing though I suspect they do not.
You can set up your own membership site and do recurring billing with PayPal pretty easy.
Look at A-Member software of Member Buddy software. There are others too.
you can find a good programmer to set that all up for you for cheap.
Hi Allyn,
Thanks for the response and advice. I have paid a group of programmers to build the site over the last 4 months and it is ready to be launched in the next 7 to 10 days. It is very extensive, powerful and professional. It has the recurring membership’s setup, etc. and coincidentally we do use PayPal’s web payments pro as our merchant processor. With over 115,000 real estate and mortgage transactions completed between our companies, we have plenty of experience and knowledge about running businesses, but none of us have ever owned a company that is so heavily dependent on a website to generate business. We are just getting into the internet marketing game and realize, this is like so many other areas of business that we don’t know very much about it, but have learned to surround ourselves with extremely qualified people like you and others who focus on mastering these tactics daily. I guess what my question should have been was, as an affiliate, no matter what network(s) you and other affiliates are part of, does this monthly recurring membership model seem like something marketers are interested in promoting and if so, what or who would you suggest would be a good match? Or, does the affiliate marketing industry mainly focus on product sales.
Once again, thanks for your opinions and advice.
Dennis,
now we’re gettin somewhere! If you tell me that you drink beer, then you and I could share a thing or two.
Anyway, affiliate marketers like me love recurring payments and will promote such all day long. If I was you, I would run the affiliate program myself and cut out the middle man. I have always been a fan of being 100% in control of my revenue. In addition, if you cut out the middle man, you can pay your affiliates more, thus gaining more affiliates.
I don’t know your biz model 100%, but there are tons of sites in the mortgage niche. Just google terms related and then contact the webmasters and let them know your gig.
Hi Allyn,
Yes, Beer is my friend. In fact I drink Blue Moon here and there. I travel out of the country a good bit and like to sample local beers from different areas around the world. I still find it amusing when I go to a restaurant in another country and the menu has Budweiser, Coors, etc. on the Imported Beers List. I don’t know where you live, but I lived in Colorado for a couple years back in the mid 90’s and I have to say, they have some of the best Micro Brews I have ever had. Although I could talk about beer all day long, I don’t want to get too off subject of your blog topic. I was talking about our startup company to a friend of mine and he suggested incorporating an affiliate program. Although, the concept is quite simple, I googled Implementing an Affiliate Program to get some hints, tips and compare the pitfalls of self managing over using another company. PJ, click bank and CJ came up and upon further searches I found your blog. As any other business decision, I research to weigh cost efficincy vs. time and effort. ie. will it be cheaper in the beginning for our company to implement an affiliate program and determine the time frame, expense and employees to market to potential affiliates (a whole discussion in itself)and manage the bi-weekly or monthly payments or….. go with a “reputable” service that takes care of paying affiliates and most importantly already has 1000’s of affiliates in place. Unfortunately, I still don’t have enough information to make a well informed decision. Do you have any other advice? Have you or do you know people who have setup an affiliate programs? How would we go about marketing to affiliates? Thanks. I look forward to your response.
I don’t think anyone mentioned here that there was some scare-mongering going on a while back about problems with the eBay affiliate program and you should sign up via Pepper Jam instead.
I can confirm that the direct eBay Partner Network works fine and I make money from it. But you still need a decent site that is content based rather than the simple scamming landing pages used in the PPC industry such as the weightloss pages where a former obese person is pictured as a skinny babe looking down at her old enormous stretch jeans after popping some weight loss pills.
Part of the problem, I think, is the quality of the advertisers. It’s not easy to find a good landing page for most of them! And think about it, anything that’s available on Amazon or eBay (which is most of it) will convert better on those more familiar sites. Half of the advertisers that I find on PJ turn out to be affiliates themselves or use drop shippers. The rest are items that the average person will look at and consider until the see the price and then run away screaming.
It’s a shame, because I really like Kris, and I like how the site works. But I really just can’t make money with their advertisers.
Thank god they rejected my EPN application!
From an advertiser perspective, we’ve had an awful experience with PJ. We got a lot of bogus traffic that PJ tried to tell us was legit. When we shut them down, PJ came after us for $5k in payments for traffic that they said they sent to us after we shut it down! Now we have some goon from accounting sending us threatening emails. That confirmed for me that its a company that is just trying to gouge advertisers and publishers alike.
The canned response from Pepperjam that you received is similiar to one I received at the first of this year. I wished I would have saved it and maybe I did, but can’t find it. I spent thousands on pay-per-click with yahoo and google, with various products and felt fortunate to have broken even. I love the it’s your fault and you suck reply they give you. This Condescending attitude works so well in business now a days. After reading the reply they sent to you, I’m handing in the towel all together, I have had it and I’m finished. Not Becuase I Didn’t make any money because I did make some, but because of their crappy attitude I’ll not continue any type of promotion of their partners. I’m furious!!!!
Quick Translation From The Network’s Reply.
“I appreciate your frustration, especially considering I was there where you are when I first got involved in affiliate marketing in the late 90’s.
I just couldn’t believe that you could spend thousands of dollars, generate thousands of clicks, and not make an ROI!
I don’t actually remember ever getting as angry as you appear, but there is a lesson to be learned here.
The lesson is that the “problem” is your strategy.
If something doesn’t work you ned to fix it.”
This Is What I Read.
I used to be in your shoes you dumbass for using our network.
I’m laughing my ass off becuase you spent your hard earned money promoting this crap, only a Newbie would do that.
I never got angry becuase I’m mature and you are not.
You should be taught a lesson for complaining. We want you to spend more money, You are just not smart enought and used the wrong strategy. (No Proper Strategy was Ever Giving Because There Isn’t One Better Than The One you Tried And It Failed) Prove yourself and keep spending your money and fix your stupidity.
I’m ticked off and we’ll let everyone know that I can about this blog. Good Luck Everyone, And Don’t Get Scammed, It’s Easy To Do.
I really think that maybe they are making more off of people creating highly relevant websites with backlinks to their clients and that they really make their money selling back links. Any Thoughts?
I don’t know if pepperjam is a scam but i know for sure that it sucks a lot to the point that I have serious doubts about whether the people managing the company know what they are doing. I have tested many affiliates on several blogs. During that time the affiliate banners and clicks got clicked thousands of times. Different affiliates, different sites, almost a million unique impressions over a year. I am not kidding. Ringtones and Halloween niches. I made about $25. You be the judge.
I’ll admit, I’m a complete newbie at the affiliate marketing game. I just started building out my first website (Halloween themed) in August, its only 10 percent finished (or less), I’ve got tons of work to do, its clearly not a finished website, and I’m doing it all on natural SEO results, no PPC. (I was really working towards next year’s sales.)
But in spite of the unfinished website, my own inexperience, and no budget, I’ve already had more than 1,000 unique visitors this month, I’ve had Amazon and LinkConnector clicks, and made some commissions through CJ. You DO NOT need to be an experienced internet marketing wizard to make money at this. Nor do you need to lose thousands of dollars before you figure out how to make money.
When I first started building out my site, I joined a number of affiliate networks to maximize the number of vendor links I could put on my site. PepperJam was one of them. I don’t know if they’re a scam, or their tracking sucks, but what I can speak to is the quality and ease of use of their site from a publisher perspective.
First off, I get the aesthetics of the PepperJam network having an all black background, but combine that with small white print, and its damn hard to read. I ran some searches to find some vendors I would be interested in, but damned if I can actually APPLY to them. I keep getting an error message saying I have to agree to the terms, but damned if I can find them, much less where to accept them. I’ve read the FAQs, I’ve run help searches, I think I even contacted them, I spent quite a bit of time just trying to get to that step. Then I gave up. If their user interface, which you’d expect them to spend the most time and effort on, is such a mess, hard to read, hard to navigate, and frankly aggravating, how well is the stuff you can’t see working? Who needs that kind of grief?
I’m wondering the same. I get serious traffic from organics on my wine bottle refrigerator site. My Amazon widget converts regularly, but my Pepper Jam aff, pays nada. Zero pepperjam conversions? Smells fishy.
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Allyn, I realize this is a post from last year, but this topic came up just yesterday at a hastily called lunch with some NW Indiana tweeps. @kathysipple the original founder of #nwitweetup asked “why can’t someone build an affiliate network for the region?” Some great follow up convo wish you had been there since we just discussed the same.
I’m wondering if anyone has created a template platform to build your own affiliate network. In essence become your own Pepperjam on a hyper local level?
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I think it is a great idea, but don’t know any developers that could do it. I am sure software exists, but that’s way over my head there big brother!
I love how Kris Jones was the first to respond…
But anyways I can only trust a company up to the point of their integrity. And since Kris Jones was the head of their corporation, he is the image of pepperjam. And Kris Jones has done some shady business dealings and then sold the corporation to GSI Corporation (now TrueAction)
I believe a sell out who doesn’t repay his obligations deserves no recognition as a business leader. (Im taking bets that True Action phases him out of the company entirely)
I just had two of my merchants (Dick’s Sporting Goods and Sports Authority) jump ship away from Linkshare over to Pepperjam. I hadn’t even heard of Pepperjam until they jumped. So, I did a search for Pepperjam and found this blog.
So after reading this blog, I may not even join up…hesitating giving them my social security number.
Anyone have any opinions of Linkshare and and ideas as to why these two merchants may have jumped there?
100% agree with you Allyn. I tried PJN with 5000 impressions and it was more than enough to know what shit they are up with.
@Waizen: Linkshare is even WORSE than PJN. After Ebay and Paypal, Linkshare is the next biggest scam on the internet. Linkshare is owned and operated by Japanese company Rakuten which also owns thief companies like OneCause, FreeCause, etc. Linkshare is one BIG scam to rip off affiliates. Just search around how many sales do not get tracked. Here, check this: http://www.linksteal.com/
I wouldn’t even vouch for any affiliate marketing network at this point of time. Right now, the question is NOT which is the best network. The real question is, which network is the least scumbag?