Good way to test out something like that is to have affiliate linking codes direct surfers to a special URL that offers up nothing but your site and your site alone. And that way, if you want to experiment with your type-in traffic going directly to your domain, you can do that without affecting your affiliates' referrals.

Though, even that is not a perfect solution. Because, depending on how long your affiliates' cookies are set for, they may refer someone who leaves the site and then comes back on their own via type-in and still have the potential to make a sale off of that surfer.

My personal view and the approach we take here is that if you're a paysite owner/operator, you just have to accept the fact that signups are your source of income. Let affiliate sites be the ones to earn affiliate commissions, and let paysites be the ones to earn signup revenues. That's why we don't have any redirects, any cross sells, any exit consoles, any outbound links to other paysites or anything like that. No traffic-trade links, none of that, on any of our sites.

ShaneSixty.com has an attractive design and even more attractive models. Your site has tremendous brand potential, so why send anyone anywhere else? There's real value in establishing your site as an Ultimate Destination. Once arriving at ShaneSixty.com, there should be no need to go anywhere else to get what you need. No other sponsor need be brought to the attention of your surfers once they arrive at your site. Your site is of high enough quality to be able to run it that way. By offering other options, you're potentially implying there's a need for other options and allowing the consumer to consider your site might not offer enough.

In the shortterm, sure, you could score extra money off of sponsors. But why bother, when in the long term establishing your site and your name and brand is that much easier when people see nothing but ShaneSixty.com when they go to ShaneSixty.com. Not all paysites can get away with that. But yours very well could.