Originally Posted by Relentless

To answer your specific question... anyone who does this professionally does not give one single fuck how a sponsor arrives at their payout amount. I don't care if they have 26 leaks, 2 leaks, PPS, Revshare, pay in wampum beads, giftcards, dollars or doughnuts. I take the TOTAL VALUE of whatever they ACTUALLY paid me divided by the total number of clicks I sent them and determine the one TRUE $/click for their program.

Then I try to find someone else who pays more per click than that sponsor does. Until I find someone better, they get my traffic. Why they pay more... not my problem. Why they pay less, not my problem. Those kinds of questions *only* matter if I am considering building a paysite to compete with them... as an affiliate they are 100% meaningless.

If one program pays you 35PPS, and another pays you 50% revshare... how do you decide which is better? You start by figuring out exactly how many clicks you sent to each and how much they paid you total for those clicks. Then you might see the 35PPS site is actually paying you 14 cents per click while the 50% site pays you 32 cents a click... or you might see the opposite is factually correct.

Back in the day programs used to give points for giftcards and console gaming systems and all kinds of other bonuses. How did you know what they paid per click? You added the value of the bonus items to the payment amount and divided it by the number of clicks along with any cash those clicks earned.

Apples to Apples is $/click and it *always* works because you *and only you* track exactly how many clicks you sent and exactly how many dollars you cashed as a result. The stat relies on nobody else.