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Originally Posted by Matt 26z
Relentless, your argument is never going to be valid no matter how many times you repeat it.
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My argument is valid as long as simple math continues to work.
I'll bet on Math over how you "feel about things" every time.
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One thing you've never explained in your shaving-doesn't-matter campaigning is how you drill down to figure out what the problem is for a low EPC affiliate program. How exactly do you determine if the problem is the tour, your own promo efforts or shaving/leaking?
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I know what my clicks are worth (from SponsorB). If SponorA isn't sending me more $/click, I'd go to SponsorB or SponsorC. Nobody is telling you to go to any specific sponsor. The professionals in this thread are telling you to send traffic to the sponsor that pays you the most per click.... or if you think you can do it better, to build a site of your own that earns you more per click than any available sponsor.
Why would anyone waste time trying to figure out WHY SponsorB has such a low EPC... why is their problem not my problem. Whether the 'problem' is the tour, shaving, leaking, a fad, over-saturation, high scrubbing, weak content updates or anything else... that doesn't change the fact that their $/click is LOW.
Similarly, if their $/click is very high, I might want to make sure they aren't doing anything illegal or anything that hurts my bookmarkers (high $/click actually needs more evaluation than low $/click for that reason). Other than that, as an affiliate I don't care why or how... and neither should you.
On the other hand, if I am seriously considering building a site to compete in a market, then all the why and how matters a lot. If you are a paysite owner your job gets 10000x more complicated. If you are sending traffic as an affiliate the analysis is as simple as $/click. The hard part of being an affiliate is generating traffic...
By the way Matt26v, what sites do you own? Name one? Just one?