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Originally Posted by will76
I've heard this gripe before from program owners and i say its bullshit. As you point out, so many ways programs are LOSING sales to tube sites, the last thing I would be complaining about is one of my affiliates SENDING IN sales from the search engine, even if they god forbid mentioned my models name. If they can do a better job at SEO than me, I am glad that THEY are sending the traffic to me and not targeting my models to direct that traffic to someone else. Or whos to say if I would ever get the traffic anyway if that affiliate wasn't on the search engine.
In a time of sales being so low I can't imagine how a program woud bitch about getting sales.  |
That's because you aren't interpreting what I'm saying. This thread was about affiliates being USEFUL or not. An affiliate that is targeting a solo girls name in SEO is NOT sending any new sales. They are sending sales that would already belong to the paysite.
You're bringing up a completely different subject with piracy that has nothing to do with this discussion.
But I'll humor you anyway. I have an affiliate who is pretty damn good at SEO. And he's clever enough that before I started paying attention to the little things myself, he would grab that number one spot for Claudia-Marie using his PPS code.
Goddamn that ate me up for the couple of weeks he did that.
That number one spot is GOLD for a solo girl site. Not so much the number two or three spots.
You can ponder the "why" of this conversation until the cows come home. But if you think that handing out YOUR money for sales that came in from people looking for YOUR site to begin with (and not a keyword) then I suppose that's how we differ in business approach.
Having been a pretty good affiliate myself since the mid 1990's I can tell you that my job as an affiliate is to send NEW eyes to look at a site. You know, it is called PROMOTING. I don't think that having a number one spot on google for a solo girls name is "promoting" anything.
Is it smart for an affiliate if they can pull that off? Yep. Is it actually promoting the site? Nope.