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Originally Posted by FightThisPatent
Evolving the discussion along the lines of the evolving affiliate prorgram:
If Affiliate webmasters are buying PPC type ad placements and able to show good conversions to go beyond break even, why aren't the paysites doing this themelves and therefore have no payouts?
If Affiliate webmasters are submitting FHG to TGP, why doesn't the paysite submit their own links (which is their own content and their own hosting anyways) and gain traffic and signups, and not pay out affiliates?
It seems that the environment of the affiliate program has changed in the last couple of years, with PPC opportunities and large TGP that can drive traffic to submitted links, etc.
Have these sources of traffic that the affiliate webmaster use, become the same sources that paysites can use and bypass the affiliate program?
Fight the Evolution!
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Unfortunately for affiliates that's exactly the case.
Of course there's only so much traffic that can be managed in house efficiently so there will always be affiliate programs (which really is just another way of buying traffic)
But the middle man TGP submitter or whatever is getting squeezed out of the picture.
To make it in the future you're either going to have to have your own traffic, your own paysites and $$ to buy traffic, or preferably a combination of both.
The "free traffic" pool is shrinking daily.
