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Originally Posted by inthecrack
Well said. Interesting that the only 2 people that "get it" in this thread (Paul and Dean) are the only two that are legitimate content producers (there may be others but sorry that I don't know of you).
90% of our affiliate sales come from review sites and other membership sites (who coincidentally feel no need to alter our pictures or crop out watermarks) simply because of the quality of traffic, not quantity. It seems that most people here want us to just sell out on our principles of quality control and copyright protection in order to cater to the remaining 10%. We'll gladly take all affiliates of any type but if you are planning to deliberately ignore the TOS or bend them to your own desire then you've probably come to the wrong place.
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Interesting that the 3 people who don't get affiliate marketing are the 3 that aren't affiliate marketers. Thing is, the affiliate marketers who don't 'get' what goes into shooting don't need to - they just need to know a couple of things about the end product: does it look good; will it sell.
Shooters need to 'get' what goes into aff marketing to a degree, because then they can differentiate between markham's inane and way off target ramblings about exactly *what* is being given away for free. Cropped pics on a blog getting SE traffic that link either to a tour or to a FHG is going to help your bottom line, not hurt it in any way, shape, or form. Anyone who tells you different has zero idea about surfers today.