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Originally Posted by TheDoc
With any NATS programs its a simple 2 clicks and you get your default linking codes. I find it sad the one extra click bothers webmasters.
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Oh come on. The NATS backend for links and promo content is pathetic. It's not that a big a deal to get the links displayed, but why in heavens name is every one usually displayed in a separate box?
And it's worse if you want content or hosted galleries. Every site has to be selected individually, choosing video and picture content separately. And you have to back up two or three screens after each selection, losing any detailed choices along the way, so everything has to be done from scratch for every selection.
The time wasted in the case of a sponsor who has lots of sites is significant enough by itself. If you are starting a project and have to collect content from several sponsors at once, then it really adds up.
Many sponsors fail to recognize that everything they offer might be fine, but it is rarely special enough for it to be worth an affiliate having to dig. No-one has an endless amount of (productive) promotional opportunities and these days there is a choice of sponsor for every single one of them, so affiliates can afford to be fussy, never mind just have reasonable expectations.
It just seems so inconsistent to see sponsors hitting the boards and/or running expensive promos, yet their webmaster areas are often going to be killing a lot of the potential they are generating.