The affiliate was sucking down more than banners. he was slowing down the tour. So I investigated him.
His Domain was on Sumo.tv and the name of the affiliate is the name of an employee there. So could of been doing it under the companies instructions. Maybe Sumo have gone into the porn business.
I emailed the affiliate 3 times to sort out why so much traffic, he had generated 2.5+ millions hits from the K page views. Maybe banners but it's a lot of traffic and it was on my tour not my banners.
I got no replies to my emails, so I phoned his office. After making sure he was there I asked to be put through to him. He was out to lunch at 2.30 UK time, an hour later he was still out to lunch. However in that hour the pages he had generating 2.5 million hits on my tour were redirected to the main site.
Except one. This one he redirected to the wrong page. The URL now goes to where the others go to.
The URL with is with the affiliate code, check the site it was hosted on and check out the link and where it goes now.
I think that's enough to warrant a ban but the guppies over at the Pond think I should of bought a new server to carry this extra traffic. Some even think he's a whale.
The affiliate who were sending traffic were suffering by the tour working slowly.
Is the affiliate in question a scammer? Well he changed all the pages to redirect to the page the image URL redirect to. He had lots of other sponsors banners on the site and mine were low down. Seems strange way for an honest man to work. An honest man would answer the phone and take the links down. IMO a dishonest one would avoid me and hide the pages.
That's it and if I did wrong I will apologise to the affiliate as soon as he contacts me. He has not so far.
minusonebit would you like to ask him why he did what he did? He might reply to you.
minusonebit knows all the info I posted here.