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I was 1:3173 in October, and gross new sales numbers dropped so badly that I didn't get the 60% affiliate share for the first time in forever. So I said fuckit and pretty much stopped putting up new material for them. Like somebody else said, business is business -- I treasure my long and productive business relationship with the Kink.com people, but there's a limit to how much traffic you can send chasing ratios that bad.
Then in November on zero effort and old links (of which I have umpty-jillion) my Kink ratio went back up to 1:1734 and I got a ton of small sales. Ratio so far this month on modest renewed effort (a few blog posts) is 1:1817. So, the long horrible ratios slide seems to have taken a breather for me. I did see some modest search engine placement improvements that might explain it -- I can't swear it's part of any broader trends.
2007: 1:1079
2008: 1:1392
2009: 1:1735
2010: 1:1988
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