Originally Posted by spacedog

Don't get your panties in a bunch..


A watermark of site name or url of site being promoted is not an issue and is less likely to generate a type in causing you to lose the sale as the surfer knows the clickable link takes him to the same place so he's more likely to click as he's lazy by nature.

What you should be bitching about is those sponsors whom deliberately and intentionally steal your sales by purposefully attracting type ins where you're promoting somefuckingprogramspaysite.com but the watermark says goehere.com instead of the site you're promoting.. The sufer has become accustomed and trained to type in urls as seen on flash videos and has a natural curiosity.. why would he click link to somefuckingprogramspaysite.com when the watermark says goehere.com? He may think goehere.com has more free videos for him to watch.. he may think the content he wants is on goehere.com and not somefuckingprogramspaysite.com so he types it in rather than clicking your link.. You get NOTHING when he joins goehere.com. This is a deliberate and calculated move by affiliate programs further exploit YOUR traffic and any rep who tells you that it does not generate type ins or that they're only protecting their content are simply fucking lying to you. Afterall, look at how many type ins tube sites generate.. That's why these programs put their clips on them.. These tubesites and sites utilizing embeds of flv files are the ones whom trained surfers to type in urls seen on watermarks.

Never worry about a watermark that's of actual site you're promoting as surfer is intelligent and is more likely to click the link than type in as he knows they both go to the same place.. The real one to worry about is when watermark is different as surfer is naturally curious and programs are exploiting this and KNOWINGLY stealing your joins utilizing this method!