Paysites that promote other sites

[mardigras]

Paysite owners aren't dumb, they KNOW this works and take advantage of it. I think they rely primarily on webmasters not experienced enough to realize that even if they are told they will be paid on all exits, those 3 pages of pop-ups to other programs have no way of paying them.

I got into a discussion with a woman from one program (that I had signed up for but decided not to promote) because they sent me an e-mail stating that their consoles had been made less agressive and that the webmaster got credit on all exits. Less aggressive meant down from 5 to 4 and the one taken away was one that had the webmaster credit on it (these popups were from hosted galleries!). When I brought this to her attention she told me that I could go get my own content, pay for my own hosting, then send traffic to their console free signup page. I told her that I HAVE my own hosting and if I was going to use my content to promote someone else's site it would be someone who made me a partner on ALL links, not drown out the one link I get credit for in a flurry of popups I don't. Apparently they have enough suck... er... webmasters bending over for them because my suggestion that all would do better if traffic they wouldn't have except for the webmasters was split better with webmasters (encouraging them to promote harder) fell on deaf ears. (I imagine there's always a crop of fresh suckers, PT Barnum saying one is born every minute and Nightline and 20/20 broadcasting we're all rich:)

When a surfer is hit with one popup offering a nicer site tour or offer than what they came from and another popup (or 2 or 3 or...) each with 20 or more links for a variety of sites chances are pretty slim of them ever hiting your single link on the page that spawned them as they visit or close them.

What just kills me is when a popup crazy sponsor has the condition of not opening their link in a new window in their terms.