BIZ THREAD: Good House Keeping Seal of Approval Type Company for Affiliate Programs?
 

I was reading another board where the age old question of trust came up again regarding the programs you promote.

In an ideal world, these wouldn't be issues but obviously we don't live or work in Utopia!

10+ years in, and this is still an unregulated/unchecked business based on trust. With that comes great opportunity and also a lot of potential unscrupulous activity and shady business practices.

Whether you should or shouldn't, webmasters have to trust you are getting all their clicks and signups counted just like you trust that 6 minute long distance phone call isn't being charged at 11 minutes by the phone company or you weren't over charged and under pumped at the gas station.

Having people like XXXJay and Marc from hoes.com reveal their stats and create processes for their own checks and balances is good for them and also a nice public service which is appreciated by many ... but still, it doesn't allow for you to KNOW you aren't getting shaved or "SoAndSoCash.com" has all of their 2257 in order.

Truth is, there's obviously no checks and balances and no well known, widely respected third-party "good house keeping seal of approval" type companies that can audit and monitor Affiliate programs and reliably report that "SoAndSoCash.com" is completely clean, has all 2257 in order, counts all clicks and signups and has a record of paying on time every time since XYZ year.

I was reminded that there was once a company that did provided such services for a couple affiliate companies - but I don't remember their name and it seems they've vanished due to lack of participation by program owners ... if I?m not mistaken.

Someone that can convince site owners and webmasters that they can BE THAT right now/TODAY will have a great business model on their hands and help foster the trust that seems to be lacking among many.

Problem is, program owners aren't going to hand over their data and open up their processes to a third party company like that for a number of reasons, IMHO.

What do you think?

Good housekeeping reviews adult programs? Where in the magazine is that in the back lol

I think usage of NATS and other like softwares have eliminated a lot of these issues with programs... but still def. not a perfect world.

The reality is that with the "bro" club hard at work, the worst offenders would never get outed. The amount of ass kissing a cronyism in this business is a little overwhelming at times.

well the internet is still at stage "wild wild west"
everyone does whatever he wants, and there is little to none regulation
and it wont change anytime soon

but hey, its kinda charming like that, isnt it? :)

Great post on somewhere else:

biz threads die faster than anything around here lately huh?

you need to post in the title "I have a watermelon in my ass" to get views and replies

I don't have a watermelon in my ass tho

lolololllol

The only things I worry about is the size of the check and is the guy honest.

If more went by those rules there would be a lot less scammers.

I miss the old good/bad/ugly... let's get it going again J$

http://goodbadugly.info/

marc

Who would set the standard? I find that with a lot of "awards" or "recognitions" in this business, it ends up always being based on the "old boys club", and oftentimes those who are even more worthy of praise or recognition are tossed to the wayside because they are "new". There would have to be a lot of standards and a cross-sectional review board of unbiased members before any type of system would function and not be suspect.

And who gets to determine who is unbiased?

:Oh crap :Oh crap

Some good points listed in this thred, but you'd also have to consider...
What makes a "good" affiliate program? That will vary from affiliate to affiliate. What one program might offer/do/allow could vary greatly from another, yet both could serve their respective affiliates well.

true dat

ok then post you saw a guy with watermelon ion ass :pimp

I'll sort them out :)

Brad

I saw this guy JUICY with watermelon in his ass :pimp

:1orglaugh :1orglaugh :1orglaugh :1orglaugh wtfffffffffffff