Quote Originally Posted by tigermom View Post
Brian, I think it has a lot to do with the tone of the post that started this thread -


You list how much work the sponsor does, then tell us that in your view, affiliates don't do much more than "throw up a banner on their site". You imply that affiliates just get lucky, getting sales that you would have made anyway, simply because a surfer "happened to click" their ref code.
That was a reference to a specific breed of affiliates that do just that - no more than throw a banner up and leave it at that. I went in to more detail in response to Steve's (Desslock) post asking specifically the kind of affiliates I was talking about here:

http://forums.gaywidewebmasters.com/...t=20765&page=5

about 1/4 of the page down.

Of course there are affiliates that do more. But I was talking about the affiliates that do nothing but what I described above - of which there are many!

It wasn't a generalization about all affiliates, it was using those specific types of an affiliate as examples of affiliates that I feel are of lesser value than others.

That not all affiliates are created equal.