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A very well written post with a lot of truth to it. My review sites label each reviewed paysite as CrossSales "None" "Unchecked" "PreChecked" with a simple Faq ? explaining in very basic terms what a surfer might understand. I have been very careful to avoid saying one is "bad" or another is "good", each is shown in black text not red warning text. The purpose is to inform the surfer not to convince or dissuade the surfer from making a purchase based on the xsell alone.
I welcome input from program owners regarding the wording of the FAQ. I am also in the process of manually checking join pages on every program reviewed by WebmasterScore.com Each is being properly tagged with "None" "Unchecked" or "PreChecked" so that affiliates can sort through programs and find the right program to match their particular traffic. Again, I am neither for nor against honest xsells and I fully understand an xsell can be both prechecked AND honest or "none" and criminally dishonest.
If any program owner feels the 'tag' assigned to their program review is incorrect I welcome your feedback. I am manually updating 100s of reviews, xsells change often and an unintentional inaccuracy is possible. Everything that can be done will be done to ensure the accuracy of all of my reviews as quickly as possible.
For the record, 12clickscash is one of the programs I have checked and everything in the post above appears to be absolutely true.
As a side note, I do find it hard to understand why an affiliate RevShare link code would have xsells on it or why an affiliate would choose to send traffic on a RevShare basis to a program that does not offer a percentage of that revenue or an xsell-free link... or the very least a PPS alternative. Hopefully someone can explain to me what I'm missing and how doing so would make sense?
One thing I have seen and I can't for the life of me figure out why more programs don't do it... is an xsell "package discount" where a site costs 30 to join and offers another site that is usually 30 to join for $25 instead. In that way you'd be selling 2 sites, the surfer is saving $5 vs having bought each of them separately and the xsell becomes an added value rather than a potential scam. A program that had package discount xsells and gave affiliates a 50% cut of the main sale along with a smaller % of any xsells on their traffic could actually create added value for their own program, the xsell program, the affiliate and the surfer.
A win/win/win/win no ?
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