I see your point, and I've always agreed that these huge monster programs that build a huge image aimed at affiliates probably don't provide the best products for consumers.

I think ultimately that programs are accountable to the customer, and not the affiliates. This means content will ultimately prevail.

Brian, did you used to be BD_Bionic?



Quote Originally Posted by CorbinFisher_BD View Post
See, that's precisely the problem though.

You acknowledge that the quality of content has value.

But how many affiliates line up to eagerly send traffic to a site with crappy content, simply because it offers huge PPS payouts and webmaster incentives? Thereby turning surfers in to disgruntled, disenchanted people... and the affiliate not realizing they very well are breeding among their traffic base surfers who will never again trust one of their outbound links.

Competition fuels better deals and better quality, but not necessarily better for surfers. Just better for webmasters at the expense of the industry as a whole when we come out of it all 10 years from now with a market unwilling and unable to trust what we're putting in front of them all because there was pressure to make a quick buck off them many times over in the past.

Our top affiliates know we produce quality, which is why they send their surfers to us. We don't use 75% revshare of $80PPS to try and get traffic. We use high quality content - consistently high quality content well-regarded in the marketplace. They gladly send us traffic, we gladly pay them 50% commissions.

Look at sites like SeanCody, CorbinFisher, and Fratmen - sites with very simple (often entirely CCBill based) affiliate programs yet still with countless affiliates sending traffic to them because they can see it's quality that will convert for them. There are many, many sponsors like that.

Look at other programs like RandyBlue and Pridebucks, armed with both elaborate affiliate programs and high quality content sites. There are a number of sponsors like them.

But there are also sponsors who cater almost solely to webmasters instead of their paying customers - almost encouraging affiliates to mislead and deceive so that they can each make money off of the surfers.

All because of an affiliate-pressured market instead of a customer-pressured market.