Upsells isn't shaving since no statistics have ever come close to proving that they hurt retention. Actually the stats have shown to be the other way since more loyalty is built if the upsell product isn't trash.
Bitching about upsells is like me bitching that you cross promoting on my review.
And to add to the convo
Taken from my blog on
Sponsor Errors Losing You Money.
* Incorrectly coded or broken a href links on warning pages, tours, and join pages.
* Large amounts of 404 errors. No affiliate ID through the 404 errors.
* 404 pages overwrite the affiliate ID, they have popups/exits, and offers to other affiliate program websites.
* Websites with standalone member login pages: Only a few pass the affiliate ID to the login pages from the tours. Less than a few pass the affiliate ID to the login error page.
* Login Errors (401 error): Most error pages offer a cross-site promo. Half had promos to other affiliate programs. Almost all reset the affiliate ID even if one is present in the cookies.
* Tours and more often the sign up forms, which provide a link back to the main tour page did not pass the affiliate ID back through to the tour, correctly.
* HALF the programs tested reset the affiliate IDs on the warning pages.
* Overly strong exit chains on tour pages, sub tour pages, and join forms.
* Links to sex shops, dvd stores, and a mixture of other upsells directly on the tours or featured links (such as blogs and diary?s) which do not pass the affiliate ID through.
* Outbound links to other paysites within the same site network and other affiliate program sites, hard linked through keywords. On the tours and the warning pages. These often do not pass the affiliate ID through even if one is present.
* Hosted galleries: A large mixture of 404 errors, broken ? non-working affiliate ID links. A large amount of incorrectly coded galleries that produced some links to have an improper affiliate IDs. Incorrectly linked paysite tours or simply linking to the wrong paysite. Bonus or extra sites don?t have affiliate IDs. No title, description, keywords, body text, no alt tags, all graphic galleries, no 2257 statements, or non-working or found CSS files.
* Bookmark links on tours and galleries that don?t contain the affiliate ID.
* Join form errors: No open or close of the form tags, improperly coded or missing form options. Incorrect posts to the processor or cascade software creating errors.
* Some tours do not work or pass the affiliate ID through if JavaScript is OFF!
* Tours with bad/error warning popups from improper language settings, expired or missing SSL Certs, and some other stuff I didn?t click on.
* Some affiliate programs provide improper coded linking codes within the affiliate program. These codes did not pass the affiliate ID through at all.
* I have seen MANY Free Sites / TGP?s, ect which incorrectly wrote or placed the affiliate ID within the HTML. Creating fresh traffic to the affiliate program that doesn?t contain an affiliate ID.