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Originally Posted by After Shock Media
Actually if a site could retain there is no reason why they could not do it.
To many build themselves up and around affiliate traffic from the get go. It has been my main point all along.
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But since what you're saying isn't going to happen, what's the point of laying out all these scenarios?
Why not fire up a program and try out your theories? Like I've said twice in this thread now... YOU might offer a lower payout, but the next 20 programs over there are offering more... so where do you think affiliates are going to send thier hits?
If you want affiliates to your program, you have to make it worth their while. It's not my fault that that's the way it is, that's just the way it is, period. It's called competition, and the pay sites who thrive on affiliates are all competing to get more of them in theirs rather than see them send their traffic to someone else's.
some of you it seems fail to see that every part of this business is in balance with every other part, TGP's, link lists, gallery submitters, SE guys, designers, pay site owners, admins, content producers... we are all in this together. Some are into traffic flow, others are into marketing, others are into generating the very product that surfers are trying to get to..... it's symbiotic really.
Can someone go it alone without affiliates? yes. Should everyone? No. And I'm just not comfortable with the kinds of comments that basically say affiliates are needless or are overpaid etc, because I'll tell you right now, any program owner that says that about his affiliates will get zero hits of my hard-earned traffic. That's a promise.