@bonustreak 248988 wrote:
Shame is I don’t trust many Microgaming programs at all anymore! I don’t care about what Marcia is saying on how tough it is to untag players because the shareholders are not going to give a rats ass if a whale is taken away from me as long as they can continue to get fat off the earnings they stole from me.
I stay stole because there are many programs doing it plain and simple! I don’t need Lloyds words to be verified I just plain believe it and have thought it for yrs before he even came forward! I only have a few MG brands that I push even slightly heavy these days, I am moving on to other things such as Net Ent, Aristocrat etc until the day comes and some of them tumble from grace that is just the way of the land these days.
I can say if some stick together and pull brands that can be effective BUT I will not and never will think bad of my friends or competition for marketing brands I don’t agree with! I respect them and understand the choices they make.
If your gut tells you something is up with a program then your gut is most probably correct GO WITH IT!
Normally I don’t see eye to eye with you Bonusstreak but on this one, I most definitely do!!!
Removing myself from the equation for a moment. How is possible for USA affiliates to send literally 1000’s upon 1000’s of players year in year out for years on end, then end up with a big fat $0. The move to the MGS USA friendly casino died in the backside. Then, (if I have it correct) this USA traffic then being redirected to an RTG casino. Yet still USA affiliate were making next to nothing. How is this possible???
We’re not talking about newbie webmasters here, this issues affected well established sites, which their concept along with their traffic hasn’t change. Of course programs seem to pull every excuse out the book to why things have changed etc etc.
Again these stories probably wash with newbies but seasoned affiliates have been on top of both their site performance and expected ROI year in year out, you can’t use these excuse when a divergent set of statistics are thrown into the mix.
The only variable which can change, is the way a casino or its affiliate program chooses to treat existing tagged players, or new referred players.
What really gets up my nose, is BIG business, corporations who have literally millions upon millions and they are so damn greedy, they have no issue stealing from the little people.
While I’m not a USA affiliate, I’ve been around for over 12 years. My best earner month in month out, year in year out is Fortune Affiliates. Apart from a portfolio of smaller sites, I’ve got one major flagship site which has not faulted in delivering highly targeted, long tail search queries to this site over the years.
Australia is MGS’s biggest market right now and given I target both Aussies and Kiwi’s I should be rolling in dosh. Given I’m not, I like Bonusstreak have to look at what I see and figure out if this 2+2 = 4
Sadly in most cases it does even equal 2. So like Bonusstreak, I too have to go on my gut and my experience in this game to know that somewhere, someone is bending me over.
Personally I’m sick to the back teeth of being treated like a clueless newbie. Worse, being expect to swallow this utter load of hog-wash some programs dish out as excuses for traffic not converting or players, especially whales, closing accounts.