Hello Ironchef16,
No I do not mind sharing. I'm always an open book. I don't know how other bloggers operate and if they want this information shared but I don't mind sharing.
I have credit card links on my site that pay me a referral of anywhere from $20 - $200 per approval depending upon the card. Each lender offers a different price for each of their cards. When you become an marketing affiliate you have access to all the offers that the lender approves your site for. Sometimes you don't get the best offer links and no one does only the lender has them. I have my "TOP DEALS" area that will always have the best offer links I am personally aware of no matter if I receive a referral or not. I always want you the reader to have the best deal. I would love to have the referral but not at your expense.
Every miles/points blogger you see out there has the same links. Really the way I see it you have 2 choices when sign up for a credit card offer.
1.You can put some $$ in your favorite bloggers pocket 2. you can give that money to the bank if you go through a direct lenders link(some big CEO will make a bigger bonus that year). You aren't losing anything by using my link or another miles/points blogger. You are just helping the small guy/gal out. So there you have it in a nut shell.

If your goal is domestic awards, wouldn't 50k points per WN/BA card be better then 30k points per UA/CO card?

And for Marriott the 70k offer's application page works. Chase should honor the offer and in the worst case, you can still get 50k+$75.

Which card are you talking about?
I have a post on my blog about the 70k offer still being possible but not guaranteed like it was before. I don't want promote something to a newbie that they might not get.

I think s/he gets $20-$50 each depending on issuer

The problem, as Billy Baloney sees it, is not the fact that someone is trying to start a business venture in order to better themselves.

The problem - is that the information given specifically for the "newbies" is vague, quick, and not well planned out. Now this is only my opinion, mind you.

Relax. "Non-stop spam" is a wee bit of overkill. It seems like a nice little discussion going on here to me. And there are many other bloggers posting around here with hopes of attracting some traffic to their site too. As long as they are contributing something worthwhile, more power to 'em.

Wow. I had no idea the referral kickbacks were in that range. No wonder all these bloggers are trying to get people on to their sites. I may have to start one of my own. ;) (But I won't since I have no idea how I would/could possibly add anything new to the excess redundancy of info that the plethora of current bloggers already provide.)

Then you don't link to the inferior offer like you do with the Citi TYP Card 30k offer.

Post should be titled "how to earn a free family vacation while I earn commissions on every single credit application even though you may not be getting the best bonus"



"The Citi ThankYou℠ Premier Card - enough for $300 in Gift Cards , issued by Citibank, is an enticing rewards credit card that allows consumers to earn unlimited ThankYou® Points for your everyday purchases. You'll receive 30,000 bonus ThankYou® Points when you make $1,500 in purchases within the first 3 months, "

If this post is meant for the average joe, why even post it here? Most visitors here are beyond that basic level.

Maybe I just have a low tolerance for this kind of self-promotion. If you have a post that's relevant to an already-existing discussion thread, that might be OK to mention as a resource. But creating entirely new topics to advertise your blog posts seems awfully tacky.

IB4L :cool:

Maybe?
It's just a post. Click once and move on. How difficult is that?

Interesting blog. Thanks for the advise.

Especially. ^

Also, the formatting is very hard to read and paragraphing almost non-existent.

The main issue is that the post has bad advice and bad strategies and seems to be mostly about earning you commissions. Have you looked at the sticky in this forum and read the threads that it links to before coming up with your plan? There are so many cards which offer 50k points and you are instead talking about 30k offers from UA/DL and 25k offers from AL.

Other glaring issues:

Why talk about 40k Citi HH Visa when you would get 60k from Amex for spending a lesser amount and more points upon upgrading to Surpass? There's even a 50k offer from Citi. Although they might not give you the best value, other options would be 70k/100k from converting HA/VS card bonus points. Didn't you post another thread here regarding this exact thing?

Why are you linking to the 50k Marriott offer when there is a 50k+$75 offer which has a working landing page? Better yet, the 70k offer should work since Chase is good about honoring bonuses. Even if they don't give you 70k points they will give you 50k+$75 since that's publicly available.

As far as flight tickets go, a single person could get two Citi AA cards and a Chase BA Visa. The current best offers would give you 106k AA miles, 53k BA miles and $300 after the minimum spending($9500 in total). 100k AA miles will give you 4 domestic RT tickets. 53k BA miles will give you 4 segments of up to 2999 miles on AA or 5 segments of up to 1999 miles or 7 segments of up to 1149 miles.

If you are looking at short haul nonstop domestic flights, getting two Sapphire preferred cards, one BA visa($9500 minimum spending in total) and converting the Sapphire points into BA as necessary would give you a great value.

Then there are the Southwest 50k offers for plus/premier cards and ThankYou 50k offers for premier/preferred cards which might be better suited if you are redeeming for low-cost tickets.

It also looks like every card that you mention in your credit card offers page earns you commission. There are a plethora of offers there which offer far below than the best offer for the same card. Why advertise them at all?

It is clear to me that your don't at all have your reader's best interest at heart.

Also, not to mention that starting a new thread for the sole purpose of advertising your blog is especially tacky, as are misleading titles such as "FREE vacation plan".

Sorry. :td: