Hi,
oddly enough, I must speak up for RB, … to some extent.
I cannot say what they are: or are not doing, but I have this to offer.
for some time, I have kept RB at the back of my sites, even before the new “rule” was forced on us; the one about requiring a new player every month to keep from losing 5% :devil:
…. ah, but where was I? anyway,… about 6 months, maybe 9 before the new rule, I had begun cutting back their traffic due to what I felt was almost certainly a ……. cap, for lack of better words, that I was seeing, and that most other webmasters who I talked with had similar experience. You’d jump out to a good start the first week, then do nothing for 2 weeks and then the last week you’d usually have a little bit more added onto the scale.
So I pushed them back figuring that I was only going to make so much with them anyway, so why waste the extra traffic?
well either an old player, or someone new; (I can’t remember) started up at lucky nugget and I started seeing some fantastic months. really, really fantastic months.
Not being one to be too quick to jump back on a sinking ship, I waited … I’d say about up until a couple of months before the new rule, so that’s about 4 months time, where I didn’t ever increase traffic to any RB property, despite making this great income. Needless to say, I did finally give LN exposure, only to get this new rule forced upon us sometime shortly aftwards.
IMHO a tactic that is about as smart as was the “new coke” idea for so many reasons on so many levels ….
all that said, I hope nobody cruised too fast over the parts that said “really, really fantastic months” and “about 4 months time, where I didn’t ever increase traffic to any RB property”.
I still feel I was on some kind of cap. things were too obvious IMHO to have been anything else; but that was then, and after that came some nice months where I feel I was seeing results (not only to my liking) that were what I would consider to be more reasonably logical in respect to how my income gathered speed over the course of the month and how I would expect player’s to behave.
the last couple months haven’t been outstanding, in fact they’ve really sunk, but I always find great optimism in my opinion of a program’s integrity when I see something like I’ve just described to you.
There was no reason for RB to have increased my income unless they were trying to bait me into further exposure; but when that didn’t happen over night, rather a considerable amount of time passed; and my income didn’t just dive right back into the crapper; I think it is cause for pause and reflection; before completely turning my back on a program having labeled them cheats or shavers.
I don’t have an answer but rather raise more questions, I know.