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Discuss what's fucking going on, and which programs are best and worst. One-time "program" announcements from "established" webmasters are allowed. |
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How do you stop Webmasters from Reffering themselves?
How do you stop Webmasters from Reffering themselves? I was wondering how you go about to stop webmasters sighing up for two accounts. One they sent small amounta of traffic too and then they refer themselves and send the majority of traffic to the second. I guess the 15% can mean big money for some people. Not really a big deal but I saw that today and I was wondering what methods do you have in place?
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do they have the same tax id?
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Allow only one account per person, address.
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You catch them when its payment time.
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Derek, we've caught a few trying to pull that as well. You just gotta keep a close eye on these things (address, emails, other similarities)... which can get trickier and trickier the more you grow. |
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depends, is it better to loose only 15% comparing to the whole source?
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Kill there old acc, the one that's getting the referral money.
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I sometimes use several accounts for tracking purposes. I never considered whether I was getting a referral fee from my other accounts.
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Hand approve accounts is one way. Long way to do it, but it will stop it.
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yep.. hand approving accounts. and paying very close attention to some of the details that some people already listed here.
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I have a question for you, If a signup is worth your normal payout to one person and a 15% override to a referring webmaster, what difference does it make if it all goes to the same webmaster? It's not like it's hard to sneak an account in on those programs that are concerned anyhow. I think I'd focus on something more important.
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Programs run on a small profit margin, and hope for large volume and rebills.
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What programs pay 15% for reffers? Sign me up!
If those programs are any good I would love to push them on http://www.affiliatesrus.com. Let's see some links! |
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you say that like 15% isnt shit
fuck that. 15% is fucking huge. and if you are going to offer someone else that cash if they refer me.. i refered myself.. why am i not intitled to that 15% besides.. is my traffic thats making the sales anyways right?
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It's the principle of the matter. If I wanted to pay $34.50-$46 a join, I would. But the point of referring webmasters is to get more people promoting the program, not double one that is already active.
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shoot them>?
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Now, I don't sign up under my own affiliate codes but if I wanted to you would never know it. That being said, I make my own creatives, do my own footwork, and rarely if ever talk to support. If a sponsor got pissy because I kept my referral % myself while spending thousands of dollars providing everything free under the sun to other webmasters I would just pull my traffic. |
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Do reports when your paychecks are about to go out to see who are the biggest referral checks, then backtrack to check those people aren't signing themselves up.
Check for duplicate payto/tax information and check if the accounts are referring each other. WG
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Personally, I won't sign up under anyone's referral code solely because it gives you an additional point to your argument when negotiating for higher payouts.
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nice ideas here..
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You send traffic to XYZ company and get 10 joins a day. 10*$30/join = 300 $300*1.15 = $345 Now if you refer someone else and they send 10 joins a day, I still have your $300 and now someone else's $300 and have to pay the referral. I'm now paying $645, but have twice as many joins. The bottom line is just because you refer yourself doesn't mean you'll twice as many joins. If you refer someone else, they'll send joins. Yes, you may find a way around it and companies won't know, but I know of larger companies that shut down accounts or tell webmasters when they find out they can't do it. It truly cuts into the profit margin, paying $30-40/join already hurts bad enough.
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Thanks for the great ideas and Kristin I love how you threw you 2 cents in. Killer!
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And on that note by me not using their referral code will the ones actively promoting suddenly stop sending traffic? Nope. You just want those loose webmasters signed up with no referrals at all. Like I said, 100% bottom line. How much do all the promo tools you offer every noob in the world cut into your bottom line? What about all the time on ICQ explaining to morons how to insert a link code correctly? |
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It's hard to stamp that out. It affects the bottom line more than most people know.
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Dwreck can you cross refrence your daily signups?
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wow, thats kind of low.
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So little things like this matter, but taking an additional $15% is just not right. You aren't sending more joins and by someone else referring may not equate to more joins, but it has a better chance than referring yourself.
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Hell, if it's 1 join or 10, it's still more than I would have gotten that day without the referral. And yes, that's assuming that the other person would send traffic, but we have to think optimistically. The person signed up for the program under someone else and they deserve the cash, now the question should remain, would they have signed up even if they weren't referred? If the answer is no, then there ... the referral is worth it. If the answer is yes, then fine, cut your losses. And if they would have signed up without a referral, then why should I pay them more with them referring themselves?
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First, there is no such thing as "referring oneself". That is an oxymoron. Secondly, when you refer yourself, it is a gester of bad faith. Sponsor programs do not have referral links so that their webmasters can make an extra 15% off their own signups, else they would just payout 65% instead of 50/50. |
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If an affiliate is doing good volume in your program would you raise their payout to meet or match the percentage that would be paid out to their referrer?
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I'll tell you one thing I do, it's send signups to programs without bothering them every 5 minutes and asking for a blowjob to go with my free galleries. Should I pull up the 80000 threads you've posted in when someone asks for an affiliate code? What about the ones where someone says they'll be signing up for X sponsor and you say "as long as your signing up use this link". You didn't make those webmasters sign up, you just spammed your link code after they had already made up their mind. So why the hell should you get the extra % for NOTHING when I'm the one sending sales. I'd say what you do is a lot worse. ![]() |
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And my apologies to Derek, this thread has gone off track ... the question wasn't whether it was right or not, it was how to stop it.
So back to my original post thought, you could do it by hand D.
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