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Originally Posted by Diomed
Just wondering if anyone here (like me), tries to keep their traffic source and filtering methods away from their sponsors.
I know this might sound shady, but it's not. All I'm good for is creatives, and I don't want even my sponsors seeing my presentation. Naturally they are welcome to check out the performance of my traffic, but not my method.
Does anybody else participate in this? I have zero webmaster/programming skills.. All I do well is out think the next man.. (landing pages, micro-placing, text, pitch angle, etc). I essentially purchase every hit of traffic that my pages see, as they are not SEO friendly, and as I know jack shit about SEO.
This method has it's benefits and shortcomings, but it's what I know and have been doing forever. I do like the idea, and have recently spent time checking out how to slowly start earning some money through very little investment (blogs, seo, etc).. but I have a long road to go there. In the end, I would like to have a little stream of revenue coming in from a few things once I stop buying traffic all day and take some time off.
Regardless of that.. I'm interested to know if anybody else is a freak like me?
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Makes sense to me but unfortunately I think you have to be that way by pragmatic necessity rather than by logical strategy. Most affiliates should do it that way because I think most programs do actually try and steal the "recipes" for sales from their affiliates, rather than cultivating a strong mutually supportive bond, which would make way more sense for a long term strategy imo.
Unfortunately, of course, doing it that way probably does raise suspicions of your methods and might cause issues with new sponsors that haven't developed the trust yet.
So, that kind of ultimately creates a true Catch-22 where it might be better to do it another way, one where you work more closely to achieve best results based on trustingly shared proprietary methods, but cannot due to inherent safeguards to protect those techniques.