What is needed is a sponsor directory with ONLY good sites
 

Signbucks.com is great in that it lists most sponsors but most sponsors suck and are near leaving the industry. If their conversions aren't 1:7,000 then it's because they haven't updated since 2006, they no longer pay, there is no promo content, they have shady cross sales, and on and on with crap like this.

What is really needed is some kind of listing of only the best where real normal affiliates have said they are worth it. Not where the person who pays the highest referral fees is listed first either or where a couple reps log on and bump their own employer.

I'm looking for spanking sites and it's like Blech! What is this shit? The site went this long without paysite banners as I questioned whether there was a paysite worth the hassle of putting up there.

Bun Beating Dollars seems okay. Who else?

Back in the days something like that did exist. But somebody need to test these sponsors all the time in order for it to be accurate

These days you gotta do a little research. I usually look for three things in a sponsor...promo tools update frequency, tour page and content quality.

If they haven't updated they promo tools in years they certainly no longer updating their members area.

As a frustrated affiliate I would pay $xx per month for a program testing service. That would include 'mystery shopper' to check for skimming, but also report on , cross sales, members area updates, ratios on some kind of 'standard traffic', and probably a few other things. Charging the program to be certified by said body might be an idea, but ... kind of sets up the wrong dynamic.

Check Fabulous Cash -- we're still updating, still paying out...since 2005.

We don't even have an webmaster affiliate program and so no one lists our program :)

Take a look at webmasterscore.com
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Be sure to check dates as some info may be a bit older but generally it has plenty of useful information and let's you compare sponsors head to head up to 5 at a time in search mode.