Originally Posted by Linkster (Post 13383315)

will76 - agreed - and having been around the biz for 10 years Ive seen all the excuses in the world for people that cant sell shit on a stick - what is going on here though is something that started Oct 20th or so - and affects at least 3 US processors - and has caused two major programs to try to swap out their cascade order but Im thinking that it was to no avail as they just swapped to another affected processor

While I totally agree that over years and years there has been the steady drop due to the free stuff and all other regular market forces - this downturn is way off the charts (literally - since I keep big charts) - the normal trend over the years has been around a 5% drop on some traffic a year - but easily made up for by doing something else/new - this drop in October was completely different and affected all types of traffic since it was on the processors' end - and was easily a sharp 20% drop overall - although I can make up for it with other programs - it was just interesting to see that it is(or seems to be) tied to something limited to the US credit card processing market

Originally Posted by kovacs (Post 13385479)

I blame spyware. If you look through the serps, all the successful spammers with parasite doorways on high trust hosting are sending their traffic to exploits rather than FPAs for affiliate programs... They must be infecting thousands upon thousands of people every day, and then those people are effectively lost to the legit adult market until they do a reformat.