Sounds like you've been terminated at some point in the past.

The bottom line is going to be the bottom line. So if you're not causing giant problems and you're making sales that stick, nobody is going to risk losing you over that IMHO.

On the flipside, no matter if someone see's your source or not and you suck at making a single sale that sticks, plus get charge backs higher than average, you're going to be gone.

sponsors do jack your traffic sources. Use https redirects.

If you buy traffic,then hidding source of it it's must do it,as that is easiest way to clone it.Also if you found se keywords which doe'snt have much competition and it's easy to rank.

Neither of these make any sense for an affiliate program that wanted to last more than a few months. How would any program survive with tactics like these?

I've been buying traffic for years, and I've seen all sorts of attempts at blocking referring URLs and sources. In a majority of the cases, it was someone trying to hide some fraudulent method of sending clicks or signups. Not all are fraud, but I certainly take a closer look.

And, really, it's all moot. Because, it's pretty easy for me to figure out what the real URL or source of the traffic is anyway. I can't think of a method that's 100% foolpoof.

It all comes down to picking good affiliates, and good programs, and building up a sense of trust. Any good program will encourage whale affiliates to send more traffic. Because, usually, once a whale, always a whale. The whales are the smart guys you want to do business with long term.

Dear Glen. YES, I truly believe this. And its not that simple, and you KNOW IT. Sponsors might be aware of a specific traffic source, but wouldn't give a Flying Fuck until they see that an affiliate uses it With Good Conversion/Sales. NOW THEN they fucking jump on it. No one should deny this because this is the fucking reality I am an affiliate for ages and happens to me all the time. ALL THE TIME. I love you, but its totally lame to question this.... :2 cents: :2 cents: :2 cents:

Check this out for those that think, it does not happen.

then stop using programs that steal from you...

:2 cents: :2 cents:

I don't want to do so because some of these programs convert well for me. I rather hide my URLs [but I am not doing so currently] and no one can simply copy our methods, they are not that simple.. Also: its not just about sponsors, but big free sites as well. Now that Roald, who I respect and like for long time is not @ FreeOnes I can tell that I hated how freeones killed their submitters.. Its understandable [yeeees, its their site, its their traffic], and I guess it was not Roald who found out those things/steps.. But its a fact that gallery submitters were able to make decent money by creating very fresh and unique and 'GOOD' galleries exclusively for them, and once they grow fukkin big they altered the model pages to a form that killed 95% [literally] of the income the submitters made.. :2 cents:

This is one of the many things I don't worry about anymore since I became my own sponsor.

But ideally you should be able to work it out with your sponsor. I've done media buys in mainstream where the traffic seller just told me straight up: We are not going to let you know where the leads are coming from, that's confidential. If it's not working out for you then we'll adjust the price or the scrub but that's our traffic source and it's none of your business.

It wasn't a deal breaker for me, but I can see how it would be for some, especially depending how badly they've been burned in the past.

Sounds like you run a legit operation. :pimp

Hey hey, I know and it's a decision we made along the line. You could also say on the other hand that we never charged webmasters like all the other sites did ;)