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Originally Posted by Forkbeard
No shit? Wow, eight years in this business and I never noticed that.
Moving out of the realm of the sarcastic:
The point is, if a program is not converting a certain slug of affiliate traffic in a profitable fashion, but then later turns around and buys that same slug of traffic for 2x, 3x, 5x, or 10x times what the traffic was "worth" when it went in via the affiliate program, it strongly suggests they weren't dealing fairly when they were processing the traffic as affiliate traffic.
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I'm with you on this. Actually you don't even have to go to the realm of the hidden to see that some programs aren't giving you a fair deal. Cams is typically the worse of the two. There are so many shenanigans in your typical cam program to watch out for that I'm not going to try to list them. One common to both dating and cams is the free signups. Typically as an affiliate you are paid nothing for these yet the program gets a good lead and is free to later do mailers to that potential customer. Also in the member's area (which the free customer typically has access to) of that program they might have upsell after upsell to other products which you get no credit for (maybe with a reduced incentive to upsell the product you DO get credit for as well). And we haven't spoken yet of the possibility of selling the mailing list. In essence you're providing the program with a free unpaid revenue stream unless they are compensating you for those leads or running a clean program.
Thinking of going to a PPFS program now? Try this. Record your average Free to unique ratio with several programs. You might find that on average you did 1:40 or 1:60 verified free signup but mysteriously under the new PPFS program you're suddenly doing 1:150 or worse when they have to finally pay you for those free leads. Hmm. Why do you think that is?
I did some work with both cams and dating but I don't believe I'm getting the revenue I actually generated (for the most part). As such I'm considering redirecting the surfers to myfreecams and plentyoffish as opposed to lining someone elses' pockets who is probably screwing me. It's definitely not worth targeting for me unless I feel it's a fair deal. The jury is still out on a few programs so we'll see.