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Originally posted by hyper
well true of course people will try to enter invalid email addresses to get past the system, but not 30% of them
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Where on earth do you get that idea from? I'd imagine at least 70% will either give a BS e-mail address, be blocked by a spam filter (ie AOL or bigfoot etc) or simply not confirm because of the pop-up auto-install dialler and popups crap on the join page (worst offender imo). Let's face it - if you signed up for a free Ezine/Mag and got hit with that crap would you confirm?
For the life of me I can't undertsand why freezine or ce use this on the join page. I can see that to pay £1/$1.50 they need to squeeze as much out as possible but preventing people joining by hitting them with that shit seems counter-productive. However, that said if they don't confirm, the programs still have the e-mail address but don't have to pay on it... Shaving? - I doubt and if so it's small. But the system is designed not to encourage people to confirm.
Certainly the original post saying you only get 10% of joins credited is luidcrous.
Out of the 2 Ezine performs better and I'm starting to push them a little more (CE just seems to have far too low ratios even taking into account the upsell payouts) as they make money which at the end of the day is more important than anything else.