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Originally Posted by stuveltje
i have only one big issue, also the reason why i dont make free sites anymore,sponsors who change their urls to their paysites every year
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I have a simple solution to that. Don't use those sponsors. A couple of my sponsors changed their code, but kept the old code active, so that old links did
NOT become inactive, that is fine. But if a sponsor ever changes their code, and the old ones become invalid, they are history.
This is not just because of the inconvenience, there is also the fact that a Perl script to change the link code at the sponsor's end would take a few minutes to write, and solve the problem (EG the surfers click on a link saying
http://www.bongo-sex.com?pro=ccbil&aff=123456, the code then changes it and redirects to
http://www.bongo-sex.com?pro=paycom&aff=fred). Even if the sponsor is a 'one man band' type of organisation with no Perl/PHP programming skills, it will not cost much to pay a programmer to write a short piece of code like this (hell I'd do it for $100 and laugh at the way I overcharged them). In fact, I would guess that a quick search of the free Perl resource sites will come up with several free programs that will do the job for you.
So any sponsor who does not do this is either deliberately ripping off his affiliates (changing code deliberately to avoid paying for 'old' traffic) or is so incompetent that he/she will probably not still be in business soon, and you won't get any owed money from a bankrupt sponsor (well maybe ten cents in the dollar five years down the line).
Just don't use that type of sponsor, it will cost you money at some point if you do.