PublisherChallenge is now LIVE!
February 7, 2009 Posted by Tyler CruzAfter several months of design and development, PublisherChallenge has finally launched!
I had to delay the original launch date of February 1st because the site was just not ready at that point. I’m glad I made the decision to delay it by a week as the site is working awesome now apart from a few very minor design bugs which will be fixed on Monday.
PublisherChallenge affiliates (formerly from TylerCruz.com) have generated over half a million dollars and in turn we have given away over $10,000 in prizes.
So, go check it out! If you’ve competed in one of my Affiliate Marketing Competitions – past or presents – I’d like to encourage you to sign up for a free account.
Design Bugs and Glitches
There are a few very minor design bugs right now that will be fixed by the programmers on Monday. The issues I’m aware of are:
- The vertical <p> paragraph spacing in FF is too tall making it look ugly.
- The <hr> horizontal rule that appears in the Control Panel when logged in is slightly too long.
- The footer isn’t aligned to the absolute bottom in FF.
If you find any other bugs or issues, please let me know!
Plans for the Future
I won’t go into detail about what new features I have planned for the future, but some of what I’m considering are:
- A forum
- A blog/news system
- Advanced private stats still without needing the affiliate username or password (impressions, CTR, clicks, eCPC, etc.)
- Optional tracker202 integration
- Avatar system
Comments and Suggestions
So what do you think? Are there any features or changes you’d like to see? Did you find signing up and adding your affiliate network ID’s to your account easy? Do you think more networks should be added? Let me know!
So you´v already made more than $2000 for the two competitions live right now? Nice start!
To all those who thought it was a terrible idea…what can I say…just watch those stats for yourself!
I´v been a clickbank affiliate for a year now, and I´v have had great success with the network, but I´m about to start with CPA networks…so I´ll definitely register to more than one of your competitions in the near future.
Wish you great success!
Ricky
Congratulations! Site looks amazing. I can’t wait to sign up and start generating revenue! I think other networks should be added as it could greatly improve their companies and income. You’ve already generated over half a million dollars! This site holds big things in the future!
Nice job.
You’re going to make alot of money from this.
Congratulations, the design looks quite good. I will register and see if I can win me a new TV.
Congratulations, it looks great!
Site looks good, just signed up. Everything is very easy and intuitive, good job.
Suggestion though – maybe you should add some sort of security check when we register our AM accounts on the site. Unless I’m mistaken, anyone could pretend to be any one of the ID showing up in your leaderboards…
Correct. Unfortunately, there is no way for the site to automatically authenticate users. However, this is not a big issue – there is no sensitive information a user can gain by claiming somebody elses account. Essentially they could only give it a screen name.
If a user comes forth and states that they own that account I can have them prove their ownership by simply e-mailing me from the address he signed up to the network with.
In addition, this shouldn’t affect new users as they would be registering through PublisherChallenge and know to claim their accounts right away.
Your new site looks very good. Hats off to you Tyler. Thanks Greg Ellison
Awesome work Tyler, looks amazing!
From the quick glimpse I’ve had with it, it looks pretty good so far, the design is pretty slick too =D
Isn’t this a violation of Market Leverage’s Terms and Conditions?
Not when you have a separate contract with them for the competition.
Remember, these networks are working with me and I have more than just their simple approval to run the competitions.
Nice work! The site looks really good.
One thing I’m confused about. The rankings for the ML contest show me listed, but I thought old publishers don’t qualify?
Is site just showing stats for everyone but we’re not really eligible, or did ML change their mind for the competition?
Paul, unfortunately you’re still not eligible… but I’m hoping ML will reconsider removing their New Referrals only rule in March, however.
I’ll speak to my programmers and see about restructuring how the MarketLeverage standings is displayed so that it only displays eligible participants.
Good good because I noticed this “bug” right away…
Little bugs make good impressions and look nice features.Your programmers did the job! Weii-done!
Well I would congratulate you Tyler on this great launch..And i want to ask is that site is having a referral system right now if not i would suggest to add it..
Well first I would sign up for it and move around that site for any bugs and will tell you for sure if I find any..
Yup. Any links to the affiliate networks (found on the How to Join tabs) are linked through our referral links via mod_rewrite.
Excellent, well done Tyler, I’m heading over to take a look right now!
Hi Tyler, it’s looking good man, good luck with it.
My only suggestion is a small one, make the image which displays step one “Sign-Up (It’s 100% Free)” clickable so it takes the user to the sign up page. 🙂
Nice one.
Thanks, I’ll have this implemented by tonight.
wow nice work Tyler 🙂
Just registered there …
Thanks
What type of screening are you doing Tyler for the networks you promote through your challenges?
Not all networks are the same and not all are honest – I know this for a fact – so I am just wandering if you look at this or not.
I don’t and won’t accept just any network. I have a few I can think of right now that I probably wouldn’t want to work with.
I saw the website go live last night, and it is really impressive looking. How everything is laid out looks nice. I didn’t get a chance to check out much more of it though but I will probably tonight or tomorrow. Good luck Tyler.
Hi,i applied to Amped M. week ago,but i did not get in(when you started to promote contest).Maybe they will give me a call next week.They are slow 🙂
Add me to AIM (AmishFBI) and I’ll try to expedite the process for you.
Email Jason, they are really quick to get you up and running.
BTW #2 In the competition right now, who the hell is this beernuts guy?
I have to say Tyler that I am very impressed with PublisherChallenge so far! Hopefully we can get XY7 back in the mix and I can push this to some of my affiliates 🙂
-Luke
http://www.xy7millions.com
Nice site, Tyler. I like the tabbed options… very good programming on that.
The site looks amazing, Tyler.
Congrats!!
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I have heard about it for the first time.I hope the new affiliate competition site Publisher Challenge will be successful as well and gain the great popularity.I am going to check it right now.Thank you for the introduction.
Way to go. After a while all the bugs will be sorted out…
Tyler —
Site looks very nice. Who did the programming work? How did you go about finding people that could to the programming for you? I’m very curious. Thanks.
elance.com
Looks neat , hope it does well 🙂
Thank you for recommendind elance.com.I was really glad to come across it here.Programming is a great problem for me as well. I think many of us have the same problem.Isn’t that true?
The design looks very good, hope it succeeds
Tyler — The site looks pretty awesome. I’m impressed with the hard work that you put into it. On this blog you should keep us updated with how the site goes and how much $$$ it brings you.
Oh, yeah, and one more thing. How many networks are you planning on having participating in this site? Have you approached any network that didn’t want to be a part of this?
Preferably I believe 3 to be a healthy number of competitions from different networks to be running at any given time. Too many and it dillutes value to the affiliate networks for exposure and too few and it limits affiliates’s options if they’ve already registered with those networks.
I did contact a couple networks which weren’t interested, yes.
Nice site indeed. I like the colors, very nicely put content. Congrats!
Sounds like fun.
Sadly if I joined I’d only make a fool of myself with my complete lack fo understanding affiliate marketing. 😛
That’s what everyone goes through when starting out.
It’s called “I’m a fool stage” and everyone’s been there. 😀
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Google Chrome is warning me that Publisher Challenge contains “Malware”.
The website at http://www.publisherchallenge.com contains elements from the site internetcountercheck.com, which appears to host malware – software that can hurt your computer or otherwise operate without your consent. Just visiting a site that contains malware can infect your computer.
For detailed information about the problems with these elements, visit the Google Safe Browsing diagnostic page for internetcountercheck.com.
Thanks for letting me know.
My programmers just found the issue and fixed it. Somehow the index.php file was modified with an IFRAME at the very bottom of the file linking to several malware viruses and trojans.
I apologize for this, and just sent out my server administration company to look into this further to see how this occured in the first place.
Again, this has been fixed now, but if you notice it again please let me know!
Its regarding IFrame malware. My site is also infected. Can you please let us know what made that IFrame error removed. Its really urgent.
Thanks a lot
Just delete the IFRAME… and then figure out how somebody gained access to modify your file and try to fix that too 🙂
Seems to be working with no issues warnings now. 🙂
Hey Tyler,
Your site looks great! What a great way to track everyone’s progress & goals in a convenient place! Very well thought out and put together. I like the colors, too. The amount of time & energy you put into this site from what you’ve mentioned to me over the last couple of months was tremendous. Nice job man!