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Originally Posted by jayeff
I don't buy into the excuse that sponsors cannot police their traffic, but I do accept that the current ways of doing so are tiresome and far from bulletproof. If someone could devise more efficient tracking, those who do not care would no longer have an excuse and those who want to, could police their traffic more efficiently and more effectively.
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what if it were a requirement that an affiliate had to register their domains that they use to promote a program, where maybe a specific file was placed by the webmaster that verified the website (google requires you to add a meta tag to be accepted into their webmaster tools program).
this could be cumbersome on the affilaite that has to plan ahead of launching a website to register with the program.
the AFF manager wouldn't have to do anything.. a spider would look for the specific page to confirm and this registration process could be deterant.
would this be a problem to do?
i can imagine if you have 1,000 websites, that all domains would have to be entered, and a file uploaded to each one for authenticaiton would be time consuming, but it is a one-time thing, and if this helps to ensure clicks get tracked and not hijaacked, might be a good trade off.
thoughts?
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