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Originally posted by bigdog
man you must have really been getting shaved hard, or so the backend of some affilate programs recently
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Nothing changed, but I was missing a big part of reality like most. My stats had always good ratios (for the year i have some 18 sponsors below 1:200 and some of them are below 1:100) and that was giving me a false impression that everything is ok at least with my joins.
When you see the numbers in detail it's almost to impossible for a paysite owner to payout $35/trial; for every trial independent traffic quality. Even $25/trial is huge achievement. I can see some getting away from these limits due to their billing practises, but these are very few exceptions.
There are PPS owners doing honest attempts to maximize the earnings per trial so you'll get closer earnings to what they claim to pay, but the majority don't care. Did you ever wonder how a PPS sponsor can payout you $35-40/trial in a reality paysite he has to do a single update for 75 days? hah
The rules of the game are different. In the past webmasters were told to have a look at the members area of the revshares they promote. They'll better do the same with PPS programs.