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Originally Posted by Sly
I don't really understand your stance. Just the other day you were telling me how great review sites are and how they bring in a nice steady sum of joins. Now you're saying you don't appreciate those joins because they may be making money off of "your traffic" elsewhere? Maybe you could clarify that a little bit.
Another thing to keep in mind, for every one webmaster that may be "ripping you off", there are 10 others who are new to promoting your program and otherwise wouldn't.
If you really don't like review site traffic, I suppose you could add a clause in your TOS saying you don't want that type of traffic. Something to think about.
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Clear this up right quick
My sites where around before I had a webmaster program. After the program, even a year later, tons of webmasters got se listings and sent great traffic. I got tons of inhouse sales and direct return visits from the se's. When the two top review sites came out my direct se traffic dropped by 50%. I built it back up, more review sites came out, and pushed me down and more. Normal webmasters building stuff I can compete with, but not super keyword heavy review sites.
With what I told you, it goes great for new / small programs that need the traffic. I don't need their traffic to get the sales, I already had them before they came around. They didn't produce more, they just increased my webmaster payouts.