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Good post Mutt but you avoided the big problem.
We have built a system that worked yesterday, it is floundering today, tomorrow it will have to change or like all bad systems it will become redundant. The system not porn on the Net.
We mainly sell a 30 day, $30 product to a person with a need that can be met for 10 cents. Maybe $1, but never higher. We built this so we can pay the affiliates $15 to $50 a join. We then supply support, tools, content and hosting to the affiliates for free. We have to give affiliates exclusive content, which costs more, mainly because it's saturated by too many affiliates submitting it on TGP sites.
We have also concentrated our attention on affiliates often to the detriment of the surfer. We all know programs and sites that mislead and rip off the surfer.
So there you are, generally speaking we built a poor $30 product to meet a 30 cent need and now under threat from people who are meeting the surfers needs better than ours.
We created it and sustain it, yet you're blaming those who take advantage of our weaknesses and blindness.
The biggest problem with these sites is not that they steal content and few here really care, unless they're stealing from them. It's they appeal more to the surfer than we do. And who's fault is that?
There is nothing wrong with affiliates or the affiliate/traffic system. Except when it results in you becoming unable to meet the buyers needs.
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