#Ivpn discount code#

In addition, it’s clear to us that many unscrupulous affiliates rank providers in order of potential revenue. In some cases, these artificial rankings are disclosed within ‘sponsored’ areas. One of the most offensive practices is the offer to pay for top rankings.

We would have made the sale anyway, and so the affiliate is effectively stealing 25% of our revenue. Even though they don’t receive any discount, the affiliate still gets paid, even though they didn’t actually refer the customer to us. They would then find the affiliates page, click through on the link, and arrive back on the IVPN site. They do this to take advantage of the fact that many Internet shoppers are conditioned, when arriving on a checkout page, to open a new browser tab to search for discount codes.

#Ivpn discount code#

One example is the voucher code scam, where affiliates advertise coupons/vouchers that don’t exist (we don’t offer any coupons/vouchers) to rank their website on Google for keywords such as ‘ivpn coupon’.

And with the increasing competition, along came increasingly unethical behavior (which is certainly not unique to the VPN industry). As the VPN industry grew, a dizzying number of ‘Best/top VPN’ comparison sites popped up. When we realised professional affiliates were signing up as customers to get a link, we created a separate signup page for them.

We simply provided a link in our control panel, for customers to refer friends and receive credit. When IVPN launched, we never intended to create an affiliate program. For those interested, this post provides some background on how we reached that decision. A few weeks ago, we communicated to affiliates that our affiliate program would be closing.