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Originally Posted by SmutHammer
Best suggestion for the future would be to contact your affiliate rep before hand.
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Do not listen to this asshat.
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Originally Posted by ErectMedia
+1 
I've seen a few programs put in their terms let us know before sending a test sale, like that makes any fucking sense, "Hey I'm about to send a test sale to see if your skimming me"  |
I know, right?
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Originally Posted by The Porn Nerd
What's suspicious is an affiliate sending such low traffic numbers and thinking there's a need for a test and that there's something wrong in the first place. Now if the aff had sent 30,000 hits or some crazy number maybe, but 1200 spread out over how long?
Come on now.
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30k hits is an insane amount? You don't know where he is sending traffic from. It goes back to the shave. Once an affiliate releases his traffic over to a program, it is ENTIRELY up to that program to convert the customer. Of course, it is up to the affiliate to do their research and see what it is that the end user will be sold and then make a decision based upon whether or not that website is worth pushing.
That being said, if I send 7,200 uniques to ANYTHING on the web and I do not see a sale? You are damn Skippy I would pop off a test sale to make sure that somebody is not a thieving scumbag. Would I have handled that test sale differently? Of course. The fact of the matter is?
I can't blame him. For all I know he is trickling in blind, false thumbnail clicked traffic. I have no fucking idea. I learned a LONG time ago to let a surfer know EXACTLY what they are getting into before they click. I'll take a 1:7 ratio on 7 clicks a day over a ZERO and 125,000 any day.
Anybody that has every fucked with PPC would understand this.