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Originally Posted by robwod
And the bold part is my point. Why would anyone who claims to be in business, and certainly a professional, not conduct their own quality control testing and auditing? Why should the health of your revenues be the responsibility of another webmaster? I agree that what Lucas is doing is generous and, to a point, valuable for others. But I certainly do not see any upside for him personally.
And therein is my entire reasoning. Lucas takes this upon himself, for the betterment of his peers, and risks entirely alienating himself from some programs. There is little gain to be had for him personally in doing so. What he is doing is something that every serious businessman should be doing themselves -- conducting their own audits. But very often it seems like several people on GFY expect others to do the leg work and then jump on a bandwagon with no first hand knowledge themselves.
I just think that revenues are your own responsibility and, thus, you should absolutely have an internal auditing system in place for your business, including your affiliate links. I know for myself, we audit our links regularly to stay on top of any abnormalities.
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Long ago this was why most affiliates came here-- because of what people like Lucas are doing. There was a sort of social contract or expectation of reciprocity. The idea is that we all share information to help one another. He might share something helpful today and hopefully in a week or two maybe I'll share something which helps him.
It's great to test all your sponsors but that isn't realistic for everyone and it's often a gray area. If you have 300 sponsors and you do low volume with each it may not be realistic or make financial sense to test them all. Often sponsors make it risky to do real unannounced test joins as well. Even then there are a multitude of variables involved in order to do it right.