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Originally Posted by signupdamnit
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.
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I agree they pick up some free traffic from branding, but this has been talked about and happening from day 1. And you would like to think that they take in account the free joins they get when they decide on how much they want to payout to affiliates.
There are reasons why most sponsors have much better conversion ratios then their affiliates, and type in traffic from branding is a lot lower on the list than other things like..
- The fact that most affiliates send garbage traffic.
- Some sponsors don't buy traffic and make a lot of their sales from good placement of their sites in the search engines which converts a lot better.
- Lost cookies, expiring cookies, signing back up with a new credit card, depending on the company, there is lots of ways that affiliates get ripped off and lose credit from sales they send that make the sponsor's conversion ratio look so good.
I am sure there are several other reasons I am not thinking of at the moment right off the top of my head.