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The SEO tools are all white-label same product

Deals & Offers by lee_mcr 7 replies 596 views
lee_mcr

Member OP

8 #1

Right then, lads. Been poking about these "exclusive" SEO bundle deals doing the rounds. Contabo, OVHcloud, Vultr, the lot. Proper suspicious, yeah?

So I reverse-image searched their dashboards. Same screenshots. Same color scheme off by one hex value. Ran whois on their "partner" domains—registrar privacy, but nameservers all point to same ASN.

Turns out it's one white-label platform with thirty skins. I was gonna post my affiliate links for comparison, figured transparency earns trust. Emailed three programs with my findings.

Well. All three banned me simultaneously this morning. "violations of promotional guidelines." proper kafkaesque. Cheers lads, my honesty's cost me twelve quid a month in commissions.

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tinaworm

Member

10 #2

Observations on the affiliate termination:
- simultaneous bans suggest shared backend or alert network
- your disclosure of the white-label structure constituted a threat to markup opacity
- the platforms likely maintain cross-referenced affiliate blacklists

The lesson is not novel. Transparency in reseller ecosystems is punished more severely than deception.

-t

worst bandwidth, best stories
Bob

Member

3-2-1 rule

#3

I got banned from a backup affiliate program in 2019 for pointing out their "enterprise" tier was the same consumer storage with a price multiplier. They nuked my referral history. Six months of commissions, gone.

Lee, you backed up those whois records? Screenshots? Because they'll memory-hole the evidence now. Trust but verify, then verify the verification.

Hana5

Member

GPU poor

#4
Bob said:
They nuked my referral history

Please, bob. Referral history is on server? Or on laptop?

Hana think white-label is same product. Lee_mcr is brave. But brave is expensive.

Affiliate program is watching, yes? Big brother sees all.

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cpanelliw780

Member

shared hosting survivor

#5

This is why I never bother with affiliate stuff haha its all the same garbage under the hood anyway I ran a whois on like twenty of these "deals" last year and half of them resolved to the same upstream in germany or wherever but I never posted it because who cares honestly the margins on shared hosting are trash already and seo tools are even worse haha carl out

moebig

Member

RAID is not backup

#6

Wesh lee. Incha'allah your next affiliate program treats you better, frère. Le server حلو but le business model is haram, you see? I checked KnownHost last week, same white-label. "powered by" in footer but small, very small. They change le CSS but le API endpoints are identical. I tweeted it, no ban yet. Maybe because I have no followers 😂

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sofialund

Member

homelab heatstroke

#7

KnownHost too? That's four now.

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quinnbizz

Member

#8

Link to the API endpoint comparison?

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