Blackcrow

I have an affiliate that has been advertising one of my sites using terms such as "The Official Homepage of NitroVideo" in Google Ads, which then puts that affiliate above our organic listing in Google. This type of advertising is not really in the spirit of why we, as webmasters, pay affiliates. The idea is we pay affiliates to generate sales that we would otherwise not have, where as this cuts in to our organic sales.

This affiliate runs the ads all month then drops them during the days when we reconcile, so I imagine this affiliate knows they do not deserve payment for these sales.

Question: Do you agree I should e-mail this affiliate and tell them I will not be paying for these sales? I want to be fair about it.

Personal Message: Webmasters who own paysites should check your site often for this type of traffic skimming and check your sites with mobile too, because it seems even more common with mobile.