I am definitely seeing more content that enables the excuses to add credit card affiliate links. I would love to see comparisons of the NUMBER of credit card links which I think will show the differences to be even more profound. Or maybe I am imagining things. We 'll let our readers decide that.

Can you answer this question by farwest101 ?

>>>>>>have you seen rates per view/click/conversion change significantly in any direction in the past three months, for example?

One more from me:

Are you upset a little bit about the BA ad revenue drop and how BA has handled it?


Again, I am pasting below what I blogged about.
I stand by my claims:

I am seeing more posts.
I am seeing more credit card related posts (and many more credit card affiliate links, especially Amex since they came back ). Especially OMAAT (which saddens me------>Seeing 13 Chase links in one post about the Chase Ink card would NEVER have been posted last year in this blog! The Chase Ink card...shaking my head! ).

I am inferring/concluding (BA bloggers do that A LOT!) that there may have been an ad revenue drop in BA which may be directly responsible for the two claims and some BA bloggers may be upset. So, to cut to the chase (pun intended), have you seen a drop in ad revenue and are you upset about it? Make me STFU. Anyways, I hope BA gets back on track because it hurts non cc pumping bloggers.


-----Text of blog post at TBB on August 27th--------
Warning: I have a very strong imagination and like to make up things and then channel them into my blog. It makes me feel better “letting it all out” and also makes me feel important. This is my way of dealing with my inner inadequacies and insecurities. Whatever. Brace yourselves!

Loyalty Traveler (who I very highly respect) let that slip in his blog a few days ago which led me to comment further and, oh boy, are we seeing a turn in BA blog content lately or what? MORE posts trying to get views to soften some of the revenue losses ( I am guessing) and, brace yourselves big time, if you thought BA was already very credit card sell happy…you haven’t seen nothing yet! Actually, you are seeing a prime example in the amazing BIG TIME pump at One Mile at a Time in just the past few days! As you know, I am used to this stuff but even I am just blown away! I think in rough down revenue times from advertising sources you see the true colors of our favorite bloggers who do it for “friends and family” :-) Sadly (again), the good responsible bloggers (like Loyalty Traveler for example) are the ones who get hurt the most in these developments…

I would not be shocked if some of the BA biggies decide to go it alone. Actually, I am very surprised they haven’t done so as The Points Guy, Million Mile Secrets and Frugal Travel Guy are cleaning up the vast newbie market all to themselves!

Here was the quote that most missed. Nothing goes past TBB. We speak our mind and we follow doctor therapist orders to “let it all out”! What do we have to lose…our Amazon link? ROFL!!!

http://loyaltytraveler.boardingarea....-weekend-2014/

Apparently ad payouts for blogging are ‘down the toilet’ summer 2014. Do credit cards really need to advertise on blogs when the travel bloggers already personalize the commercials for them in their content?
So expect lots of catch phrase titles with less content as the travel blogosphere struggles with the new normal of lower advertisement payments.