Eurocamp Camping Holidays Affiliate nightmare

12.01.09

Eurocamp Camping Holidays

Looking at booking via Camping in Brittany at the moment,,

Sometimes I see things that I just don’t understand, and this is one of them. Quite a few months ago I pitched to Eurocamp about doing SEO for them, I didn’t get the contract, yer can’t win them all but it did make me change the way I do pitches. Becky told me not to give away too much info away at the presentation stage like I always do. Funnily enough I did my normal and told them all the things I would do and when they told me they where creating an in-house affiliate program I thought winner and told them how to use 301 redirects to pass juice, I really went into great detail, lol

So when I was booking conference dates and family holidays last week because every year we normally take the kids to Centreparcs for a week and Spain for a week, but I thought about taking the family camping in Dordogne or somewhere like that. Having 2 boys a camping holiday in Dordogne sounded better than camping in the lake district in the rain… lol and they want to go camping!

So when I did this search guess how much I nearly pee’d my pants. it almost made me want to sign up to be an affiliate. I kinda want to bring up the subject of Google not wanting you to rewrite url’s because they know best ;), but I have a radioshow tonight and time is tight.

DaveN

13 Comments

  • 1

    And are you telling us you are not affid=68 ? :)

    Chris Garrett
    http://chrisg.com

    12th January 2009 @ 19:02

  • 2

    C’mon Dave, buy a new keyboard that has a working period key. That first “sentence” could have used at least 5 or 6 of them. :)

    DazzlinDonna
    http://www.dazzlindonna.com/blog/

    12th January 2009 @ 19:05

  • 3

    I guess that is what you get when you don’t do some URL cleaning on your affiliate links.

    That affiliate must be very very happy tho.

    Matthew Diehl
    http://www.matthewsdiehl.com

    12th January 2009 @ 19:09

  • 4

    So if I’m reading correctly, they ignored all of the priceless advice that you freely gave them?

    Jeremy Knauff
    http://www.wildfiremarketinggroup.com

    12th January 2009 @ 19:10

  • 5

    A long time ago when I did a lot of affiliate marketing, I did very well by having the magic affiliate ID high up in the rankings (ahead of other affiliates or even the “home site”).

    Todd Mintz
    http://www.srclarke.com

    12th January 2009 @ 19:16

  • 6

    Not the only search term either

    http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=eurocamp+dordogne&pws=0&gl=UK

    I have fond memories from Eurocamp trips 25-30 years ago, so don’t let this stop you taking the kids.

    Andy Beard
    http://andybeard.eu

    12th January 2009 @ 19:45

  • 7

    Wow, something/body certainly got your back up!

    I just noticed this blog when searching for Eurocamp. how did you manage to get so high up so quickly on such a high profile keyword?

    Can i give you a call tomorrow, I’m looking for a good SEO for a site that I am working on

    Graham Sadler
    http://www.camping-in-brittany.co.uk

    14th January 2009 @ 19:22

  • 8

    @graham show your metal… friday i have a open table ?

    DaveN

    15th January 2009 @ 00:15

  • 9

    I can not believe Eurocamp did not take you on for there SEO. O well I guess they will be gutted when you come up at number 2 or even better number one! Already number 9 for eurocamp

    Chris Pearson

    21st January 2009 @ 13:10

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