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Originally Posted by Furious_Male
Its a double edge sword. A lot of affiliates complain that reps do not know enough (a thread with that theme was active here yesterday) and others that reps know to much.
I do my best not to compete with any of our affiliates. At the same time I will not stop promoting and testing traffic sources as I use the knowledge I acquire to share with them. I am more of a value to them as an affiliate in the trenches then I am as a generic rep.
As mentioned it is a matter of trust and I am comfortable that the Adult Alchemy affiliates I deal with trust me.
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bigdog - a rep would also need to have the time to do that research - trying to follow your traffic sources is hard enough - trying to track what keywords you use would probably be possible but they'd need the time & interest to do it.
Now - given all the info a SE gives out on the most searches and whatnot, do you think the information you may have is of more value? All they'll see from the first look is that you promote on google/yahoo/msn... They'll then have to think up all the keywords you are using and then they'd have to test them - it could be a costly project in terms of time & money.
Directly competing on the same keyword using the same site being listed one on top of the other is pointless - even if the pitch is different, they may end up paying for your better conversions if they are on top of you.