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Originally Posted by BestXXXPorn
I'm astounded at the lack of options Sponsors provide affiliates for tracking... and I've yet to see one API from any sponsor allowing me to query for things on demand. Tracking pixels are standard in just about ever other online market... at the very least.
And WTF is up with CCBill? Did they design their system in 1994 and forget to update it?
They have one of the worst UIs I've ever seen... It's slow, bulky, poorly laid out, and generally a piece of crap.
The adult industry has a LOT to learn about doing business online in 2009...
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Mainstream programs don't have 500 banners, a 1000+ hosted galleries with daily/weekly updates, tons and tons of pre-made tools, landing pages, daily free pic/video tools, rss auto updating tools, and you can't request crap from them.
They have 10 email examples, 20 banners with the same crap on it, and maybe a landing page or articles 1000 other Webmasters are using.
This is why you need an api with mainstream programs, so the "Affiliate" can actually do some work.
Adult Affiliates don't deserve anything else....
This is becuase of the massive lack of loyalty from Affiliates to programs. It's so bad, programs should start charging Affiliates to be "allowed" to promote them.
Affiliates will accuse/assume good honest programs are shaving/screwing them, simply because ratios slipped, blaming the site ower - thinking the paysite should correct it. Rather than changing traffic, banners, fresh ideas... they change sponsors.
Or they just add galleries into the rotation of things, or feeds.. and "expect" more.
Adult affiliates want and expect the world... and when it doesn't go how they expect, they point fingers and blame others, that's the only shaving really going on in our business.