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Originally Posted by HighlyIntoxicated
I've thought about this, but I don't want to get fucked over when payout time comes, and the affiliate manager starts asking where the traffic is coming from.
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I've been sending adult traffic to mainstream offers for a long time now, and never had an issue. The question rarely comes up if your lead quality is good. What they don't know, ain't hurting them. I've been asked about my traffic sources maybe 3 or 4 times in the last couple years. To which I simply reply "Is there an issue with the quality of my leads? I'll gladly stop sending traffic if there is. No? No issue? Then it's none of your business where my traffic is coming from..." End of that conversation every time. Blanking referrers is done legitimately for many reasons. Some click tracking software will do it automatically, some people do it to protect their profitable traffic sources or high converting landing pages. Networks often promote their own brokered offers, and they can and will steal your sources of traffic or promotional methods on some occasions. It's not going to throw up near as much of a flag as you think.
In the case of what you're doing, I'd just be sure I was pushing incentive only offers, and there shouldn't be any issues with your leads. I highly doubt you'll ever be questioned regarding the source of traffic. Remember, mainstream is way shadier than adult. The networks don't give a flying fuck where your traffic is coming from as long as the lead quality is good and they aren't getting complaints from the advertisers. I know many people who've been banned outright, only to have their affiliate manager open them an entirely new account and resume business as usual the very next day.
Keeping an open line of communication with your affiliate managers in mainstream is way more important on that side of the fence. Never hurts to give your affiliate manager a call once a week or so if you're pushing a lot of traffic to a specific network. Get in their good books and they can be very forthcoming with good information just to keep their own numbers up at work. Hell, a good number of the well regarded CPA networks are owned and operated by guys who are admittedly old blackhats themselves. Big time spammers, and fraudsters who turned their bucks around and setup shop on their own terms...