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Originally Posted by gideongallery
well if you are a middleman you are screwed, affiliates who just push traffic to get signup are dead meat.
That being said use branding bugs internally to increase retention (by advertising/upselling non pirateable content/benefits) would be the most effective way for an affiliate based paysite to survive.
Affiliates should be looking for sites which do this, because while there conversion ratios may be getting worse, the retention levels will increase and therefore balance out.
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Yes it would appear that the affiliate model is going to continue to be give away more to make less.
However, what most people don't realize is that's how it's always been.
People have selective memory, kind of like parents talking about "My mother never would have put up with this shit" or "I had respect for my elders when I was your age"......every new group of people trying to break into this business fucks things up for the group that got here right before them.
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Hey can you point me towards some reading material vis a vis scraping and safe harbor?
I googled it but all I come up with is a bunch of people bitching about copied blog posts.