An Open Letter To All Affiliate Programs That Offer / Plan To Offer Hosted Free Sites

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Originally Posted by [BV]

Excuse me for trying to think outside of the box and try something a little different instead of the same ole thing day in and day out. IMO these are very basic simple designs.

In my "shock & awe" post above, I wasn't referring to your HFSs at all and I hope you didn't take offense by it. The big old powerhouse programs are the ones who tend to massively over design their HFSs.

I/we certainly understand why you'd want to place as much marketing as possible on the warning page - and we WANT you to. My advice would be to use multiple blocks/tables of different sized text mixed with graphics, rather than creating a single large fpa. When the surfer hits a warning page, he's searching for the enter link and a solitary fpa is easily passed by as an obvious ad. If you break it up a bit, you are forcing the surfer to slow down his visual scan of the page because the enter link could be in there somewhere between the ad blocks.

BTW, ditto what GG just said about us checking HFS errors. Hell, I've completely forgotten to link my text and banners to a paysite tour on my own free sites in the past. There's nothing quite like having a free site listed at the L-O-R, DD's, and SG and wondering why the sponsor's stats show no hits. Oh, that's right - my links all say <a href="#">