I think we all can be in agreement that these are affiliates just trying to get rich quick without having to earn their money. I made a post a week ago and unfortunately only had one reply. Maybe I posted it in the wrong spot.
I am going to quote it here – hope you don’t mind professor.
Hi Everyone,
Even though I guess I can be considered a veteran in the affiliate “business” for going on 8 years now, I do consider it a business, a successful one that has allowed me to retire 4 years ago.
I never really was one that took advantage of the reciprocating link exchange programs, even though from what I have read helps the PR rating.
And I am quite certain that Dom can attest, after logging many hours and years of hard work, there’s an enormous amount of so-called webmaster business people that still see the need to steal content, just to leech off the successful, hardworking entrepreneurs like most of us are.Anything worthwhile takes alot of work, alot of sweat, risk, time and money. It came from us and it belongs to us.
Getting to the point – after redesigning my sites to look much more appealing to my visitors, apparantly also looks more appealing to webmasters as I have received 42 e mails from them requesting link exchanges in the past 2 weeks. I checked all the sites out and pretty much all are decent looking and does not compete main page to main page. I went through the process and only 12 actually put my link where they said it was. The other 29 did not so I removed them from my sites.
The last one, and I will not mention the name yet as this person is a member of this forum, has not in the last 2 weeks, returned my e mails, has not even acknowledged the fact that I dedicated a button link on my main page leading to his site, and all I asked was to give me the coutesy of putting my link anywhere. I really didn’t care where, as long as it was on his site.There are sites for visitors to see, where not to go to play online casinos, online sportbooks and online poker, and so on. There is now going to be a site(mine) for visitors to see where not to go to sign up for these casinos and so on. These webmasters are get rich quick failures. For every bad webmaster site on this page, there will also be a good one with the only difference being, the site that has been on the up and up with me will be linkable, the fly-by-night, will not be.
These webmasters always seem to fly under the radar to avoid detection. They drew first blood but they only hit a vein, I’ll be hitting an artery.
They’re sinking ships and are growing in numbers and it’s up to the rest of us to distance ourselves from them – This webmaster refuses to get caught up in their wake.
If anyone is with me, let me know and I will put your link on my site.
On the brighter side – I’ve never gone to any conventions yet, but I will be going to Vegas in September and I am looking forward to meeting my fellow business men and women.
Dana