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Originally Posted by fuzebox
I always wonder if this is ignorance on the behalf of the program owner... I have seen a lot of NATS admin screenshots posted, when the NATS sales reports don't count clicks from typein traffic in a lot of cases, which will really skew those ratios and make the 1:300 program-wide stats easy when affiliate average is more like 1:1500.
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Exactly. Many surfers search around for free content of a specific site and then join by simply typing in the URLs branded on almost every pic and video nowadays...no matter if they see the content on a gallery or a softcore youtube teaser, etc.
So, even with the typeins counted, overall stats of any site will always be much better than affiliate stats.
Let's face it, "educated" surfers often know it's an affiliate link and many aren't different from webmasters: They don't want a referrer to earn a comission, so they typein instead of clicking. This attitude sucks, but it's widespread.