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Originally Posted by SmokeyTheBear
sorry i have to say that i dont see a problem with the scenario you posted. You always have a choice to discontinue the affiliate if you have a problem with it. Plain fact is you and the affiliate are in it to make money, if you don't feel it makes you more money or morally object to something , don't allow it, otherwise its a rather moot point.
example
i am affiliate , i make 10 "tribute" blogs etc like one posted make x sales per day make $x per day total all ads are for sponsor
i then add some other sponsor ads and make $x + extra , i can now afford to buy extra traffic, promote my sites, thus increasing my sales to you.
do you want x sales per day or x sales * 2 ?
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Smokey there are a couple of issues here.
1. I don't have a problem with an affiliate picking up some extra cash and having links to other sponsors in association with our content, it's pretty much industry standard anyway. However when priority placement is given to those other sponsors on a page that features our content and is on a domain using our branded name that's where I have a problem. The first thing a surfer sees when they hit
http://www.naughtyjulieblog.com/ is three prominent links to another sponsor at the very top of the page.
2. Take "naughtyjulie" out of the domain name, remove any text on the page that reference "naughtyJulie", and remove her content from the page and this affililate has no traffic coming to this page, period. Thus no ability to siphon traffic off to another sponsor.
3. Back to the double standard I mentioned earlier. It's ok for the affiliate to pick up some extra cash by adding links to other sponsors on a page that only has traffic because of my content and my branding efforts, right? I'd like to pick up some extra cash too, I can't imagine how much revenue we could add annually if I were to use a couple of sponsor links on our tours but that's not acceptable now is it? "What's good for the goose is good for the gander!" No?
Again we're not talking about a generic blog here, we're talking about a blog that only has traffic because our our content and our branding efforts, period!