I don’t know how many of you have noticed this yet, but AGLOCO has disappeared off the face of the planet. No explanation. No warnings. If you try to go to their website it is a dead link. Even their blog was never updated again after October.

I’m sure most of you, like myself gave up on Agloco long ago. Their ridiculous explanations on their Viewbar. The delays after delays in getting it out. This company was pretty much BSing everyone that followed them. Most of us assumed they would never make it, and we were right.

There are a couple of things that I really found disturbing about them while they were around, however. First, was the fact that they never said a word to anyone when they shut it all down. They just killed their website and stopped updating the affiliates. The last e-mail i believe I received from Agloco was back in November and that e-mail went on to say something about how they couldn’t afford to pay out any dividends to the affiliates at this time. Just one month after they detailed how they were going to pay out affiliates, and saying that they were raising the payout per hour.

The most disturbing thing in Agloco’s short history had to do with a request that we received from the management team in I suppose was October 2007. This wasn’t publicly issued. This was sent to the affiliates via e-mail. In the e-mail the management team requested that we use the Viewbar to search through their main sponsor Ask.com. No big deal. Good idea. Well… if you kept reading that e-mail they went on to ask that once you did a search with Ask.com that you would CLICK ON THEIR SPONSORED ADS. Can you believe this? If anyone has ever been part of an ad program of any sort they know that this is the biggest no no there is. It is stealing money from the advertisers for personal gain, and will get you kicked out of every program almost instantly if you are caught.

My theory is that Ask.com dumped Agloco and they had no other option, but to fold. After getting that e-mail asking for clicks, I had no reason to think they would be around much longer anyways. That was a desperate measure. In fact that request was likely forwarded to ask.com by many who received it and they should have immediately dumped Agloco, and then sued them on top of it.