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Originally Posted by StarkReality
Exactly. Many surfers search around for free content of a specific site and then join by simply typing in the URLs branded on almost every pic and video nowadays...no matter if they see the content on a gallery or a softcore youtube teaser, etc.
So, even with the typeins counted, overall stats of any site will always be much better than affiliate stats.
Let's face it, "educated" surfers often know it's an affiliate link and many aren't different from webmasters: They don't want a referrer to earn a comission, so they typein instead of clicking. This attitude sucks, but it's widespread.
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good point, for that reason it doesn't seem right when sponsor supplied promo material is watermarked with big impossible to miss easy to read site name....
a surfer that comes to your site because they typed in a search into google wouldn't find it too hard to type in a url that is all over the promo pics, especially after they save all the pics to their hard drives first