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Originally Posted by After Shock Media
That is where you are wrong and one of the main reasons that my personal sites are primarily affiliate free and at most invite only. Affiliates were the most expensive element of the whole ordeal. Traffic itself is not that expensive nor that damn hard to get. Actually most affiliates have required the site owner to do almost all of the damn work anyways to collect the traffic, then the affiliate stamps their name on it and gets half.
Content costs have always been a lot more expensive than traffic has ever been. Even hosting expenses have been more expensive than productive traffic has been.
Now you also skipped over the whole issue of asking how to keep track in a simple way, since I was actually interested. Even though it has always been the case that revshare sites did members upsells if they wanted - just no uncredited cross sales, or exits.
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That remark about content is totally untrue.
If it costs $2K per week to update a site, then that's what it costs whether it has 100 or 10,000 members. So the cost per member for content can vary greatly, and if you're spending more on content than on traffic, then you're doing it wrong.
Comparing content to traffic is apples and oranges...but ask Nasty Dollars, Bang Bros, Brazzers, people spending millions on content, whether they spend more on content, or paying affiliates. (and paying affiliates is just another way to buy traffic)
As for your question, tracking upsells to an affiliate isn't possible as far as I know, unless you're upselling to something you own.
A good solution would be to up your percentage payout in an amount commensurate with the ads you're running in the members area....to be fair to the affiliates.