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Originally Posted by Lightspeed
Why am I suddenly reminded of Kirk's mysterious "Corbomite device"?
Lots of bluffing could start happening here with all this.... "Now I know where your traffic comes from..."
Any program worth a shit already knows where their traffic comes from, and keeps the good affiliates in and the bad ones out.
And even if you learn where my traffic comes from, it doesn't mean that my best affiliate is going to move to you for a few more bucks... I'm sure they already knew about your program already, and choose to send their traffic elsewhere, right?
Does it help my competitor to know where I get my traffic? How does he know where I get my PRODUCTIVE traffic?
Steve Lightspeed
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Well, thanks to Brandon I now have some idea as to the
Corbomite device reference.
As stated numerous times, the T3Report has many uses. This report goes beyond the traffic you know about, but in fact will make you aware of other affiliates that are flying under the radar. You don't think that you have numerous affiliates that have links up, but are not sending any signups because of the placement of the links, or the fact that they are promoting tawneestone.com on an ebony TGP gallery?
If your affiliate manager is able to get a report on each of the sites in your program, he has an in depth look at the potential for more sales. Maybe clue an affiliate in to what he is doing wrong, so that instead of him bitching that he can't seem to convert, he will instead be singing your praises because someone from LS actually approached him and showed him what he was doing wrong, and now he is a top affiliate.
As far as affiliates moving away from you to another sponsor, most affiliates promote multiple programs, so if they are promoting a "young teen" niche, and some other company contacts them for the same niche, why wouldn't they put that site into rotation? Maybe your top affiliate won't, but how many thousand affiliates do you have?
You are right, no one is going to look at a T3Report and immediately be able to determine the source of your most productive traffic, however, by analyzing the number of links, types of keywords that they promote it should not be too difficult to figure out if they might be a good traffic source.