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		dangrossman on Aug 13, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The big, ugly affiliate marketing scam There are over 600 sites purporting to offer "Improvely coupon codes" despite there never being any kind of coupon code box on my signup form. It's a bit ridiculous, especially since none of these sites are being paid an affiliate commission for their fake coupons.

prawn on Aug 13, 2013 | [–]

For their fake coupons to your site, that is. If someone ultimately clicks through to another site, the affiliate may still get their commission.

jacques_chester on Aug 13, 2013 | [–]

My guess is that they auto-generate pages based on keyword scraping from Google trends, news sites and so on.

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