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polish_aristocrat · 03-13-2004, 10:34 AM

I hope Platinum Bucks aren't shaving

Anyway, I am not so much concerned about it since i don't have many links to ARS now, but I know many webmasters are really worried about the recent changes.

Best luck to ARS, I hope they find the best solution to make the most from the old links for both them and their loyal webmasters.

IPK · 03-13-2004, 10:35 AM

yeah i just went out of my way to change all my old links. i'm sending that traffic to topbucks now.

riosluts · 03-13-2004, 10:36 AM

which links are you talking about. the oral lovers, hardcore digital, ones. Ive noticed that and i get like 7 cents per click. but my surfers goes to popup hell

strobi · 03-13-2004, 10:39 AM

Try the PP click engine.. it rocks (and it will get better).

cluck · 03-13-2004, 10:41 AM

I noticed there's some galleries up on places like madthumbs for cutegirlfriend that are redirecting to pb sites.

bluff · 03-13-2004, 10:41 AM

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Originally posted by polish_aristocrat
I hope Platinum Bucks aren't shaving

Anyway, I am not so much concerned about it since i don't have many links to ARS now, but I know many webmasters are really worried about the recent changes.

Best luck to ARS, I hope they find the best solution to make the most from the old links for both them and their loyal webmasters.

that is crazy! I thought they'd only use their FMAO SE.

Paparazzi · 03-13-2004, 11:11 AM

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Originally posted by bluff
that is crazy! I thought they'd only use their FMAO SE.

yeah I thought so too. If they didn't have a matching site in their current listing they send your traffic for their ppc se. Thanks ars for redirecting my old links to pb sites with like 10 pop ups and not informing your webmasters first. Time to remove my links...

IPK · 03-13-2004, 11:14 AM

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Originally posted by Paparazzi
yeah I thought so too. If they didn't have a matching site in their current listing they send your traffic for their ppc se. Thanks ars for redirecting my old links to pb sites with like 10 pop ups and not informing your webmasters first. Time to remove my links...

yeah they should have given more notice

Axeman · 03-13-2004, 11:15 AM

The thing that sucks most is the excessive consoles that Platinum pops.

I switched out most of my links already, still looking for a few stragglers.

- Brent

TheSwed · 03-13-2004, 11:18 AM

Go and sign up 4 ARS4REAL and send your traffic to them insted
Check my sig

IPK · 03-13-2004, 11:20 AM

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Originally posted by TheSwed
Go and sign up 4 ARS4REAL and send your traffic to them insted
Check my sig

We're talking about the traffic redirected from old ARS sites. Therefore, we're already signed up for ARS4REAL. You got to be fucking kidding.

That and your sig is too big.

tootie · 03-13-2004, 11:20 AM

ARS is paying $25 per signup for these redirects, plus you STILL get credit for FMAO on the exits. This is a good thing.

Paparazzi · 03-13-2004, 11:34 AM

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Originally posted by tootie
ARS is paying $25 per signup for these redirects, plus you STILL get credit for FMAO on the exits. This is a good thing.

Ohhhh really?! You missed the part that ars makes $40 per signup, so this means a $15 profit for every fucking signup WE are sending them. If I want to promote platinum bucks I do it with my codes and make $35-40 instead...

IPK · 03-13-2004, 11:35 AM

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Originally posted by Paparazzi
Ohhhh really?! You missed the part that ars makes $40 per signup, so this means a $15 profit for every fucking signup WE are sending them. If I want to promote platinum bucks I do it with my codes and make $35-40 instead...

Yeah seriously. It doesn't even make any sense. Just send the traffic there directly. Or at least to another sponsor like topbucks.

The Other Steve · 03-13-2004, 11:41 AM

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Originally posted by IPK

Yeah seriously. It doesn't even make any sense. Just send the traffic there directly. Or at least to another sponsor like topbucks.

For some women it makes perfect sense - it's what they call feminine logic.

I bet she's blonde too.

IPK · 03-13-2004, 11:42 AM

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Originally posted by The Other Steve

For some women it makes perfect sense - it's what they call feminine logic.

I bet she's blonde too.

hehe yeah, i'll agree with that.

tootie · 03-13-2004, 11:47 AM

Paparazzi, there are a couple of points that you're missing, though. First, there are a ton of people who have hundreds or thousands of links that they don't have time to change or can't because they might get banned from TGPs, etc. FMAO wasn't making anyone much, so ARS had to find an opion fast. Now you're getting $25 per signup instead of nothing.

Secondly, yes, ARS is making some money in the deal. Maybe they are making $15 a signup, maybe not. Whatever. I'm sure they made a hell of a lot more money than that per signup before. If not, they wouldn't be in business very long. I doubt Platinum Bucks is giving them recurring like they had before.

ARS is trying to do what's best for everyone, and getting these signups is better than getting a few cents here and there from FMAO.

The Other Steve · 03-13-2004, 11:51 AM

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Originally posted by tootie

ARS is trying to do what's best for everyone,

Total and unmitigated BULLSHIT

ARS is doing what's good for ARS and despite all the spin they churn out they don't give a five dollar fuck about their affiliates.

We're just cannon fodder to them.

IPK · 03-13-2004, 11:52 AM

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Originally posted by The Other Steve
We're just cannon fodder to them.

hehe

snowpimp · 03-13-2004, 11:52 AM

Can someone please post the email or explain to me why they're doing this??

IPK · 03-13-2004, 11:55 AM

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Originally posted by snowpimp
Can someone please post the email or explain to me why they're doing this??

read the ARS support message board, it's all there

Martin · 03-13-2004, 11:56 AM

ARS facked your asses

The Other Steve · 03-13-2004, 11:59 AM

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Originally posted by snowpimp
Can someone please post the email or explain to me why they're doing this??

desperation

bastardry

desire to maximise profits

because somebody thought it would be a good idea

all of the above

You choose the option that best fits with your view of the company

tootie · 03-13-2004, 12:04 PM

If ARS didn't have its webmasters they wouldn't make ANYTHING. They know that and YOU know it as well. If it wasn't an urgent thing, ARS would never have made these changes.

I don't know about YOUR logic, but I'd rather make $25 than $.25, which is what so many were making with FMAO.

I'm not saying that ARS is ONLY looking out for webmasters. If they were then they'd go out of business PDQ, but they have to make the choices that they feel will help keep their valuable webmasters while still ensuring their profitability. They don't do ANYONE any good if they're out of business.

Tornado · 03-13-2004, 12:04 PM

Nobody saw this coming right? the solution is rather simple. It may take a long time to switch your links but who told you to put up 10 million links to one sponsor. You saw their reality shit wasnt converting.

Paparazzi · 03-13-2004, 12:08 PM

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Originally posted by tootie
Paparazzi, there are a couple of points that you're missing, though. First, there are a ton of people who have hundreds or thousands of links that they don't have time to change or can't because they might get banned from TGPs, etc. FMAO wasn't making anyone much, so ARS had to find an opion fast. Now you're getting $25 per signup instead of nothing.

Secondly, yes, ARS is making some money in the deal. Maybe they are making $15 a signup, maybe not. Whatever. I'm sure they made a hell of a lot more money than that per signup before. If not, they wouldn't be in business very long. I doubt Platinum Bucks is giving them recurring like they had before.

ARS is trying to do what's best for everyone, and getting these signups is better than getting a few cents here and there from FMAO.

Yeah I know there are a ton of people out there that can't change their links etc, but I think it's a BAD thing to do not even informing webmasters first. I send my traffic to FMAO any day over that platinum bucks popup hell. Ars does what's best for them and not for us. Ars needs some extra money for sig whores spamming the boards...

The Other Steve · 03-13-2004, 12:10 PM

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Originally posted by tootie
If ARS didn't have its webmasters they wouldn't make ANYTHING. They know that and YOU know it as well. If it wasn't an urgent thing, ARS would never have made these changes.

I don't know about YOUR logic, but I'd rather make $25 than $.25, which is what so many were making with FMAO.

I'm not saying that ARS is ONLY looking out for webmasters. If they were then they'd go out of business PDQ, but they have to make the choices that they feel will help keep their valuable webmasters while still ensuring their profitability. They don't do ANYONE any good if they're out of business.

All you're really saying here Tootie is that you're an idiot.

If they really cared about their webmasters they would have handled the whole situation far better than they did.

The simple fact is that they were in bad financial trouble - even Marc De admitted that they were bleeding money and had been for a long time.

To survive they needed a very quick fix and they took the one that was good for the company and not for the webmaster.

In any situation like this there is always a win/win option.

They seem to have chosen the win/lose option instead and if this really was the win/'win option then they were and still are in deeper shit than many of us imagined.

Now let the ARS spin doctors and arse lickers queue here and tell us that it just isn't so.

aflex · 03-13-2004, 12:12 PM

i wish they were more prepared when the new system took over.. i did well with a few niches there, i have moved a couple niches to different sponsors and im doing well with them, well enough to stay with the newer sponsors.. but i do like ars, and i hope they get new sites up in a hurry.

magicmike · 03-13-2004, 12:16 PM

If you don't like it change your links.

I'm sure platinum bucks will get you an account if you want to get that extra $15 yourself.

Or you can send it wherever you want.

snowpimp · 03-13-2004, 12:32 PM

At least they were nice enough to set something up that doesn't just kill all my links and hard work. My conversions might go to shit, but at least I'll still be making some money.

BTW, for those of you with A LOT OF POINTS, here's some fine print you might want to read:

"In order to get your points transferred, you must send a signup to a site in the ARS 4 Real portfolio within 30 days of 2/23/04. If you do not, you will lose your current points. "

Argoz · 03-13-2004, 03:01 PM

Does HomeSexNetwork.com is still alive?

TDF · 03-13-2004, 03:04 PM

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Originally posted by magicmike
If you don't like it change your links.

this is the gist of the problem

jennym · 03-13-2004, 03:09 PM

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Originally posted by snowpimp
"In order to get your points transferred, you must send a signup to a site in the ARS 4 Real portfolio within 30 days of 2/23/04. If you do not, you will lose your current points. "

That is no longer the case.

media · 03-13-2004, 03:17 PM

I dropped 1675 gallery page links listed on google and changed them to links to goto Epic Cash Sites...

Drake · 03-13-2004, 04:27 PM

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Originally posted by media
I dropped 1675 gallery page links listed on google and changed them to links to goto Epic Cash Sites...

magicmike · 03-13-2004, 05:29 PM

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Originally posted by toodamnfli

this is the gist of the problem

Yup, but you can complain or do something basically.

Extended search and replace at the least and then a lot of uploading.

Sure the promo's etc wont match, but they already don't.

Sylver7 · 03-13-2004, 05:29 PM

ARS is dead. Move Along Folks

The Other Steve · 03-13-2004, 05:39 PM

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Originally posted by magicmike

Yup, but you can complain or do something basically.

Extended search and replace at the least and then a lot of uploading.

Sure the promo's etc wont match, but they already don't.

That's why it pays to run your traffic through home made full page ads.

Doctor Dre · 03-13-2004, 05:42 PM

I've taken a good look at ARS4REAL and their new sites and they will kick major ass before the end of the world. I think they can only get bigger

Gompo · 03-13-2004, 05:49 PM

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Originally posted by Sylver7
ARS is dead. Move Along Folks

I agree... did lots of sales!
since their sites SUCK now I just move on... ARS wake up and fix your shit!!

magicmike · 03-13-2004, 05:59 PM

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Originally posted by The Other Steve

That's why it pays to run your traffic through home made full page ads.

Yes for sure.

People that do this are able to divert their traffic around much easier.

If you are creative and a good designer, or pay to get them done they can be really awesome.

pushpills · 03-13-2004, 07:01 PM

ars jacked a shitload of my traffic, didn't inform me that the tax info was due at date xxx, and of course no emails sent to me

so they just take the traffic. seems fair.

have better converting sponsors now anyway.

FUCKuPAYme · 03-13-2004, 08:23 PM

Pornkings is converting amazing there was a thread and most everyone converted under 50

Dveron · 03-13-2004, 08:41 PM

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Originally posted by FUCKuPAYme
Pornkings is converting amazing there was a thread and most everyone converted under 50

Your posts are transparent.

Argoz · 03-13-2004, 09:13 PM

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Originally posted by Sylver7
ARS is dead. Move Along Folks

ARS suck!

jimmyf · 03-13-2004, 09:35 PM

heck I wish someone would tell me what they really think of ARS

magnatique · 03-14-2004, 11:41 AM

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Originally posted by polish_aristocrat
I hope Platinum Bucks aren't shaving

There's no need to hope here, Platinum Bucks has some of the best crew I ever had to deal with... Hell, I've seen Dave bring his company from the ground up to the big player he is now... he did that through good marketting and hard work, I can vouch for that ;)

03-14-2004, 12:12 PM

ha....intresting....i have on some old galleries old links....

mcmc · 03-14-2004, 12:30 PM

i guess WEG is happy about my old ARS traffic. There are enough sponsors in the market to choose from.

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polish_aristocrat Too lazy to set a custom title Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 40,377	ARS is now redirecting traffic from old links to Platinum Bucks. I hope Platinum Bucks aren't shaving Anyway, I am not so much concerned about it since i don't have many links to ARS now, but I know many webmasters are really worried about the recent changes. Best luck to ARS, I hope they find the best solution to make the most from the old links for both them and their loyal webmasters. __________________ I don't use ICQ anymore.

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tootie Confirmed User Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Planet Earp Posts: 6,041	Paparazzi, there are a couple of points that you're missing, though. First, there are a ton of people who have hundreds or thousands of links that they don't have time to change or can't because they might get banned from TGPs, etc. FMAO wasn't making anyone much, so ARS had to find an opion fast. Now you're getting $25 per signup instead of nothing. Secondly, yes, ARS is making some money in the deal. Maybe they are making $15 a signup, maybe not. Whatever. I'm sure they made a hell of a lot more money than that per signup before. If not, they wouldn't be in business very long. I doubt Platinum Bucks is giving them recurring like they had before. ARS is trying to do what's best for everyone, and getting these signups is better than getting a few cents here and there from FMAO. __________________

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tootie Confirmed User Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Planet Earp Posts: 6,041	If ARS didn't have its webmasters they wouldn't make ANYTHING. They know that and YOU know it as well. If it wasn't an urgent thing, ARS would never have made these changes. I don't know about YOUR logic, but I'd rather make $25 than $.25, which is what so many were making with FMAO. I'm not saying that ARS is ONLY looking out for webmasters. If they were then they'd go out of business PDQ, but they have to make the choices that they feel will help keep their valuable webmasters while still ensuring their profitability. They don't do ANYONE any good if they're out of business. __________________

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snowpimp Confirmed User Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: South Lake Tahoe, CA Posts: 1,099	At least they were nice enough to set something up that doesn't just kill all my links and hard work. My conversions might go to shit, but at least I'll still be making some money. BTW, for those of you with A LOT OF POINTS, here's some fine print you might want to read: "In order to get your points transferred, you must send a signup to a site in the ARS 4 Real portfolio within 30 days of 2/23/04. If you do not, you will lose your current points. " __________________ HIGH QUALITY ADULT AND NON-ADULT DESIGN/MARKETING WORK SINCE 1997!! Yan - ICQ # 4790444 - Phone: 530-544-7058 SIGNS, GRAPHICS & PRINTING ~ NETWORKING AND IT SERVICES

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