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Originally Posted by sarettah
You have some bad affiliates so you condemn the entire affiliate system?
The affiliate system is (usually) sponsors, who own content, having people send them traffic in return for a split of the sales of some sort.
That sysem works in that sponsors get traffic and exposure that they would not normally get.
That there are some bad actors out there should not condemn an entire system.
I have been doing marketing as an affiliate for close to 20 years. I have never misused sponsor provided content.
I have never sent a single click to a file locker.
I am extremely careful in how I promote a sponsor, making sure to follow any and all rules that they put out there no matter how ridiculous I think some of them are (think Apple Twins there).
I have a significant investment in purchased and legally licensed content that I use for galleries and site design and try my hardest not to violate any license terms from the content creators.
I truly believe, based on both conversations and observation that most affiliate marketers are more like me than like the ones that you describe.
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I have said in my post that NOT all affiliates are bad, you must be one of the few good ones....
and it is fine that you demand 50% of revenue from the traffic you get to that content owner? Where you get this traffic ? Likely from some sort of site with "user uploaded content".
... and do not get me started on "licensed" content. There are legit guys here BUT also some very very dodgy.
,, and as I have said I had 30 or so real affiliates aand only about 5 in total were legit.