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Originally Posted by will76
I agree, what makes this even more *tragic* and a train wreck is that is all over a water mark, which I believe they want there because they want to pick up free traffic.
From looking at In the Crack's site, all of their images have a url on them. People say "watermark" you can have a watermark with a logo on it for your company name without having the url on it. The fact that they want their URL on the images as part of the watermark is proof to me that their main concern here is the belief that they will get free traffic from people seeing the images and typing in the url. It's that belief or motives that makes all of this such a clusterfuck and ultimately shooting themselves in the foot on this situation... the amount of sales/traffic In the crack would have gained by the OP having the url on the images is so small compared to the traffic/sales he was sending and would continue sending as an affiliate.
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If it were our intension to short change any affiliates of potential sales we would not have set our cookie length to 100 days. This was the maximum possible with a CCBill program when we set it up and as far as I know it is still the case. Most other CCBill affiliate programs leave it at the default of 3 days. I think we are maximizing the affiliates chances to capture a sale with this.
The URL on the picture has nothing to do with free traffic or circumventing the affiliate. They're gonna click it if it's on your site. The URL is there for people who have a large assortment of random pictures on their own hard drive to identify where it came from and for any event where the picture ends up on a forum or any other unauthorized posting. I don't think there is anything wrong with this.