Hi all,
I didn’t read the last 2 or 3 pages as I’m pressed for time but felt compelled to post my disagreement with Stupid’s post about lifetime accounts.
I’ve now been around almost 10 years and have in fact experienced the affs worst nightmare. I”ve lost my ability to gain traffic due to ad restrictions at reputable PPCs.
I do this full time btw. If not for my having weeded out programs that run predatory T&Cs I probably wouldn’t be here today.
Many wonderfully kind folks here at CAP have tried to help me but the jump to seo is so foreign to me that its like trying to learn a foreign language. I take this op to again thank everyone whom I won’t mention by name because I don’t want cause them any further interference in their business than I have already been (I fear they’d be contacted by a horde of newbs) … but you and I know who you are and I am very grateful even if I have failed to show it by being more successful at this new endeavor.
I am still largely riding on residuals and have been for well over a year. Yes I’m slowly finding ways to get traffic but its not been a picnic and I’d have long, long ago been put back to the lower % if I was with a place like the one in question.
I can say confidently that would have been my final nail in the coffin.
Stupid I hope you never go thru my last year (or two) because it (obviously) will be a real humbling experience. – side note on that: I used to think I had taken the wiser path because I would never be dependent upon the SE’s algos … and there were times in that past 10 years when I saw many successful affs experience highs and lows I did not … due to SE rankings changing. But in the end I had the humbling experience that i thought I had been wise enough to avoid.
anyway there were also times during that 10 years when I pulled sponsors because they weren’t producing and they literally without any exposure aside very back pages … jumped to 5 figures for over a year. *I should have never put them back up because they dropped off when I did … and have never come close to recovering .. sigh.
I had one sponsor I pulled because they had some bad press I didn’t want to be associated with … that sponsor despite having bad press from a large number of affs … showed me decent income for close to 3 years after I stopped promoting them.
And I would guess I probably have a lot less players signed up than Stupid or many others here … so I don’t know where Stupid gets those figures but my experience tells me that residuals are going to be huge and that anybody who enters into a deal where you lose your income if you don’t send new players … is going to be extremely sorry.
And they’ll have some sort of income arriving every month from the good sponsors they promoted … to remind them how much more they could have had if they’d been smart when they had the chance … and if necessary cut their losses now while its only damaging .. before they grew to a size that when the plug gets pulled … it will be devastating.