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Originally Posted by sharphead
On another note, this might be a good idea to cloak your links to sponsors so if this thing happens again, you only need to change one link instead of hundreds or thousands  |
I was slow to get into this technology, though I am finally using it now in certain cases, and it can be a life-saver sometimes.
Unfortunately, it's unsatisfactory when we're talking about links to hosted galleries; when you've got a blog post with a picture and a bit of "follow this link to see more of this shoot" sales copy, where are you supposed to point that link when the sponsor stops crediting you for sales on that old gallery? Eventually there will be new CCbill galleries, but probably not the right ones using the same now-ancient content; so either you pull the link entirely and rewrite the sales copy, or you end up with misleading links that don't go where you say they go -- a practice I try to avoid.
I know, I know, my ancient policy of not lying to my surfers makes me some sort of freak in this business, but it's served me very very well and I'm not ready to abandon it just yet.
There are no good solutions when a sponsor screws you like this. It's years of creative effort, just fucked.
Obviously this is not the first time this has happened to me, nor will it be the last. But that doesn't keep me from getting weary and disgusted when a sponsor does it for no good reason.