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Originally Posted by Webmaster Advertising
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It's a good business practice for ANY program to have their own traffic sources especially when you consider that only 20% (or less these days) of affiliates actually generate any income for affiliate programs, meanwhile, the other 80% are the ones causing program owners the most grief with their 1 or 2 sales a month to the programs sites.
It's no wonder the affiliate business model is dwindling, because webmasters literally want to get paid for doing nothing on their own, there was a time when we actually had to 'work' to make money instead of throw up the latest batch of free hosted movie clips on our free hosted tube site using free exit click traffic provided to us by the sponsor...
The sad thing about all of this is, in reality, if we went back to actually working on our own initiatives and not expecting everything to be handed to us on a platter by affiliate programs, we'd all be making more money... There are only so many times a surfer can see the same regurgitated free content, exclusive or not, on the same sites before they become disenchanted with the allure of porn and stop buying...
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The affiliate business model is dwindling mostly due to piracy. And even then it's more like the paysite affiliate model. The pirates are thriving by opening their own affiliate programs which pay per download on their file lockers.
Contrary to what you believe it's harder than ever to be an affiliate. All that promo content is essentially worthless when it comes to Google. And it's worthless for other reasons too such as the fact that it typically has an url on it which tells the surfer to type it in rather than click so the affiliate does not get their commission.
It's would be hilarious that you seem to think promo content is turning off the surfer as opposed to the piracy giving them all they need and more but in actuality it's sad and it shows the kind of idiocy often seen in the industry these days.