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Hi Jillo,
Nice Article but there are more to it. There is no way to know 100% that a brand shaving you from your players but there are ways like some you mentioned that can help to detect. AffiliateSecure.com Team is doing the exact things to detect those issues! We are testing a in a larger scale and involving different tactics, soon all you have to do is have a look at AffiliateSecure.com and see who you should avoid working with and who you can trust! This days AffiliateSecure Team is giving out more and more Seals to brands that been tested over 6 month, that can give all affiliates another indication of a Scanned and trusted brand.
AffiliateSecure is dedicated to Secure this industry from Shaving!
The only way we will ever prove shaving is for a program or one of its current/former manager(s) to come out and admit that they shave and we all know that’s never going to happen.
If by chance an affiliate happens to notice discrepancies you can bet your last dollar that the program(s) will have a dozen or more ready made explanations to excuse them away. Seen it dozens upon dozens of times!
Additionally, based on what I’ve witnessed in the past, if/when someone speaks out about discrepancies or suspicion of shaving you can all but plan on being attacked by the programs shill squad eg, those who are getting paid by the offending program and are looking to publicly show support so that they might extend their streak of well-being with said-program.
Its really up to communities like this, to stop putting their own income ahead of the well-being of the community as a whole and to take a stand against unethical programs! Unfortunately I am not aware of one affiliate based community in this industry that currently does that.
@arkyt 234028 wrote:
Its really up to communities like this stop putting their own income ahead of the well-being of the community as a whole and to take a stand against unethical programs! Unfortunately I am not aware of one affiliate based community in this industry that does currently that.
You make a very important point here, arkyt.
The only way for this to occur is for the affiliate-based community to monetize its traffic through a sub-affiliate model. It’s something we are exploring more and more of and this would put us, for example, directly in the same position as the said affiliate we put in front of any program because if they get shaved, so do we.
Do you agree?
