Quote Originally Posted by CorbinFisher_BD View Post
Because you're a new affiliate who has expressed on here, numerous times, an enthusiasm for college guys and that being something your traffic is interested in as well.

Top performing (regarding volume and sales) affiliates will be retained, but so will affiliates who can likely send quality traffic that is relevant to our site from webmasters who have unique, original and genuine reasons to want to promote particular sites.

So actually I wasn't planning on pulling the rug from under ya. You don't seem like a "throw a banner up and forget it" kind of affiliate. You're obviously a "put some effort in to it, know my traffic and know about sponsors" kind of affiliate.
I appreciate the compliments, but I have to say I am very reluctant to keep promoting CF anymore. I have been in web publishing for over six years, and adult just over a year. I am in this for the long term. I build up my sites and my traffic literally over years, not even months. When I pick a sponsor I also try to estimate whether or not they'll be here for the long term, because I plan on those pages I put up to promote them to be here and pull in traffic, two, three years from now, and even more.

Yes, I have mainstream affiliations and I know the CJ rating system very well. It's an objective, well documented system, and when you join them, or even down the road, you know where you are with them. And hey, guess what, they also rate the sponsors! Which is what makes it a favorite with me. As I said before, I have so many sponsors that I put up pages for, wasted my good traffic with, only to find out they convert like shit. When you sign up with a sponsor (aka merchant) on CJ, you can see how well they convert over the past 7 days, month, 3 months, based on objective stats provided by CJ, not by the sponsors. Sponsors who want good affiliates, need to make an effort and improve on their part too. I won't mention any names, but I know some sponsors here, that wouldn't get too many shiny stars on such an objective system...

Yes, I think Corbin Fisher is a good site. Yes, I have more than one college site/blog and we seem to have a match in niches. But my pages are built for long term traffic. When I work out a page around a search term, and gradually build up incoming links (because it's good SEO, Lee, not because I'm lazy), then it's a long term effort. If I can't trust you guys to be there for me six months from now, or a year from now, then there are other good college sites out there, which I have been doing well with and will likely keep on promoting.