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Originally Posted by will76
people are lazy, if they like the picture and want to see more they going to click the image or link under it. That is 100x easier then opening up a new tab in your browser and typing in the url. In regards to traffic, watermarks server a little purpose in some situations but not his blog. The only thing the water mark is good for on his blog is "branding" for the program, if the customer sees the name over and over and over they may remember it and go back to it later. But even then that will be rare and only if they see it multiple times on different sites over time. Or, by some very rare chance, someone downloaded the image and saved it/ shared it. Which would be 1000x more likely with videos, not pictures. This isn't 1996.
99.999% of your traffic is going to click the link. The water mark is virtually irrelevant and totally stupid to lose an affiliate/traffic/sales over. I do understand what you are saying though, any branding we do as affiliates for those companies is free traffic/sales they get because of our efforts.
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Ever wonder why a sponsor has a 1:400 ratio but an affiliate has a 1:3,000 ratio? This is actually part of the reason. If it weren't the case then sponsors wouldn't be spending time submitting watermarked images to tube sites which do not give link backs hoping that those people will do a type in. Many of them do and they buy. That is why they do it. It isn't rocket science. It's mostly about keeping the slaves in line. The same programs who will go after affiliates for small things like this often will at the same time submit 20 minute clips to tubes or won't give a damn. It shows how they think of affiliates.