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Old 12-29-2013, 02:16 PM  
Magnetron
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Originally Posted by Far-L View Post
Ok, sorry, I think we are just misunderstanding each other.

Most sponsors will give good affiliates a link to reciprocate some traffic and when there are seo advantages. I don't think beyond that though that sponsors really want to generate traffic for affiliates that they pay out 50+% to generate their own traffic. Why would a sponsor want to do that when they can send their own traffic to themselves?

Sponsors have not really bailed on affiliates - what they have done is learned to differentiate between what is profitable and what is not.

A lot of programs that ran essentially an all out "arms race" to embrace more and more affiliates back in the day created a non sustainable business proposition that was doomed to failure as soon as they couldn't add more affiliates and couldn't monetize with enough recurring to keep paying the burden that affiliates generated, especially in pps.
I just think that nowadays with the bulk of SE traffic literally stumbling into the mega tubes, sponsors have the opportunity to light a fire under the asses of their affiliates who are struggling to get their own. They aren't converting 100% of their incoming from affs, tube channels, SEs, etc even if they have a network. They are sitting on a commodity that simply exits while affs are trying to convert shit purchased from brokers. It just makes sense even more so now than ever before to use some of it as an incentive for the entire aff base to step up its game. Not a carrot to dangle. It is a steak. It is a lobster. Damn, now I'm hungry.
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