My problem is the opposite to shaving, I'm trying to give affiliates more and more. But there are pit falls in doing this.
We now get a massive amount of sign ups that came from previous members. Guys who joined, left and came back. There is no cookie or affiliate code left to track.
We get a lot of traffic from type ins, people see the content somewhere and type in the address. We know it's type in because it goes here
www.paulmarkhamteens.com and all the links on the net are to here
www.paulmarkhamteens.com/tour/. Type ins convert better than a lot of traffic. Figure it out a guy typed in the URL or clicked on another link on a page.
There are also people who do not sign up the day they came to the site, wipe their cookies and we do not know who they are from. They are surfing porn sites, what's the odds they delete cookies often?
All together it's a big slice.
Now some programs might not get it and some I suspect do.
But here is our problem, we currently pay out 65% at the base level and it rises. I am getting emails from prospective affiliates asking how we can pay so high, they suspect us of shaving when we're trying to be honest.
So how do we attract affiliates without having them think we are shaving and pay them what they deserve?