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Originally Posted by signupdamnit
Nearly 13 years.
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Then you have seen the changes in the programs right over that time?
You did not get automatic approval in "the good ole days". You had to show who and what you are. They would then go and look at your sites and stats. More often than not you had to be established before they would let you join. This helped to lock down content, and fraud.
Over time, many of these forum owners learned that they just had to sign up to be an affiliate and they could get all of the content via an affiliate program. They could even ask for free passed to the sites to make their 'customer promotional material' and then they would go use this for their forums.
Then over the next decade you had affiliates wanting more and more, giving away more and more. Affiliate programs had to comply if they wanted the traffic including the insane $75-100.00 payouts.
Of course the affiliates would like to complain of traffic leaks, the X-Sell, Upsells, and the rest. But they STILL wanted their high payouts.
Never breaking out a calculator on how exactly a company can pay out $100.00 on a $24.99 membership. Yet expecting an affiliate program to stay in business.
Then somewhere in all of this they are 'amazed' there are all of these things that have happened in the past... X sells, card banging, and the rest. The numbers never made sense in the first place.
Anyway, I'll just leave it to you to debate the affiliate end it's clear you are set in how you want to see it. The affiliate model, in its's current form, is dying and the programs have moved away from it. Sure, there will always be room for the king fish who can convert like a Robbie or alike. But most of the old affiliates will no longer be competitive in the adult of the future.
