I'm working for iDrive4x4 and we are setting up our affiliate program.
💭 Our dream: Big and small travel bloggers from Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Oman and Georgia promote travel by 4x4 with rooftent, sending their readers to idrive4x4.com and earning commission once they book.
I'm being overwhelmed by the amount of Affiliate Marketing Software Platforms that present themselves online. Some are really expensive, others more affordable.
We need to choose one, but we are not ready to invest 1000s of euros into this. I think there is maximum of 100 euros a month and 500 euros for installation. Which affordable platform can we use that travel bloggers are also comfortable with?
Examples of platforms I found are:
AffiliateWP: affiliatewp.com/
FirstPromoter: firstpromoter.com/
Tradedoubler: grow.tradedoubler.com/
Leaddyno: www.leaddyno.com/pricing
Awin: www.awin.com/
And many many more...
👉 Would love to hear from travel bloggers what they recom...
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The CEO of Wordpress.org, Matt Mullenweg, announced they have banned WP Engine (a commercial Wordpress host) from accessing its resources.
If your blog is hosted on WP Engine (wpengine.com) then you're probably affected by this. In short, WordPress.org has blocked WP Engine's customers to install themes and update plugins that are hosted on wordpress.org, including security updates.
It looks like this news impacts over 180k blogs hosted on WP Engine 🤯
If you host your own blog elsewhere (e.g. on your own server), you're probably ok!
More commentary over at TechCrunch: techcrunch.com/2024/09/25/wordpress-org-bans-wp-engine-blocks-it-from-accessing-its-resources
This is highly problematic news.
Sadly this is a bit of a pattern, although usually found in the likes of the "deeper" infrastructure in cloud computing - databases such as MongoDB, Elastic(Search) and more recently Redis - the original team leading the open source development find that they're effectively subsidising other commercial teams who can market and scale independently and need to take measures (sometimes at launch, sometimes down the road) to protect the core project.
Over 400 Travel Massive members are hosted on WP Engine! 😬
This is awful! Thankfully, my blog is not affected but I can't imagine dealing with this right after the latest core update from Google 😩
What was the rationale?
Basically, WP Engine not contributing to WordPress, and some egos.
A few more links to keep updated:
Latest in WordPress war: Automattic says it wanted 8% cut of WP Engine revenue
www.theregister.com/2024/10/02/automattic_wp_engine_wordpress_license/
Response to WP Engine’s Meritless Lawsuit
automattic.com/2024/10/03/meritless/
Thank you for sharing these. Troubling :(
I had the priviliege of being hosted by WP Engine in Austin a few years ago.
I found them a really amazing company.
Open, transparent, helpful, pay-it-forward attitude etc. Their staff were super motivated, intelligent and clearly loving their jobs. Their offices had the usual range of good security to enter but once authorised it was open to us, including 24x7 beer and wine taps!
Disregardling egos at present it appears the current issue is all about the ongoing clash of open source vs commerical licensing. I hope they sort out their issues quickly for everyone.