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Originally Posted by Greenie
That's another pet-peeve of mine as well - I wish these programs would learn how to set things up properly.
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I personally chose to have all my sites under one master account (merged), just because I don't want people having to sign-up for 14 sites when they want to promote all my sites. As an affiliate, I also prefer that. If a sponsor has 5 sites, and I'd like to promote 3 of them, it's annoying to sign up 3 times. I'd rather sign-up just once and figure out my own way to track traffic rather than sign-up multiple times..but I'm retarded like that.
Also, if someone signs up to my affiliate program because he/she wants to promote site A, but has sites B-M as options as well, without having to re-signup.. I, as a sponsor, am more likely to see some odd hits to those sites as well. Also it is less confusing for the 'non-experienced' webmaster. If they choose to use my FHG/HFS import tool and it has galleries they haven't signed up for, I get immediately called a cheater and whatnot. Even if it's the affiliates fault for trying to import galleries he hasn't signed up for, then he comes to boards and asks why he doesn't get credit for this and that. Easier to have 1 affiliate id which gives credit for everything. No messing around.
Also, I have asked CCBill, and you can't (or atleast couldn't) track individual sub-account traffic if the accounts were merged. This was one of the reasons I chose to have my own stats coded so affiliates could track individual site performance, and still just sign-up once...My info may be outdated though.