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Was this a pay per sign up sponsor? If it was there is no doubt in my mind any more that there are many shavers out there. I have pretty much had it with pay per sign up sponsors these days. I have promoted PPS sponsors almost exclusively in previous years and it has finally hit me that there are just too many weird trends I see by looking at my past stats. Like sponsors kicking ass for long periods of time and then seemingly turning the sign up switch off over night. I had one sponsor that was always my best sponsor in 2004-2005 and then starting in Jan. of 2006 they just seemed to shut sign ups off. I think I sent them over 25k hits before I got a sign up in '06 when they had been previously steadily been 1:700-1000. Then you have the sponsors that alternate and always having huge swings even though the traffic sent and traffic sources remain the same. And I have experienced personally and have heard other webmasters say your exact story numerous times, numbers go to hell, bitch about them and then BAM the sales start coming back again, but they will only keep them on long enough to keep you quiet.
After getting sick and tired of that shit I really looked hard at the numbers of the one rev share program I have sent a good chunk of traffic to over the years and I realized that they made way more sales, were almost always steady, and even though it didnt seem like it I ended up making way more on some of their sites and about the same same on other sites as the usual 30-35$ I made on pps sponsors.
I guess my conclusion I have come to is do not ever count on a PPS sponsor for the long haul, and personally from now on I will never promote a PPS sponsor unless it is in a place I can easily go in and remove their links and put something new in. For example I will still use some PPS sponsors on my link list where I can easily go in and replace, but as far as building free sites goes, its all revshare from now on, because you cant just go in and change links of free sites that have already been listed. I send 1000's of hits every month to PPS sponsors that are on my old free sites that I know damn well and good wont make me shit, I worked hard to make those sites and get traffic to them, but its all for not because they are lucky to do anything other than get the sporadic sale here and there and convert 1:4000.
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