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Originally Posted by Paul Markham
There is one big reason surfers become members. The quality/quantity of the content in the site. If you open up the affiliates area to surfers you give him access to a lot of YOUR content in one style and theme. Diminishing the reason for him to sign up.
Or by having too little content there you tell him how small the site it. On the other hand if you have as much content in the affiliates area as we do you give him a great reason to sign up. 
We opened the affiliates area to surfers to show them the size of the site and we disabled all the links so they could not get to the actual content. Win - Win. 
But just thought of this. With the new retro site opening soon and the way the fans love to post on retro boards it might help to give them lots of galleries. So it also depends on the content.
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Yes indeed there are and you managed to contradict yourself very well... it's either a bad idea or a good idea... Whats all this retro bollox... it's viral marketing what ever niche it is... to password protect it means people cant grab and share your galleries... like they do.
I understand if the average Joe is grabbign galleries and sharing it all over the place, then this effects affiliattes... ie less chance when they use it their surfers aint already seen it, is that the main reason for password protecting the area... for something that seems to be such a issue with affiliattes they certainly aint bombarded this thread...
Programmes like SpunkyCash and TushyCash dont use password protected areas, yet they have plenty of affiliattes pushing them ???