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[Simon]

nate - it's not *that* they're watermarked, it's that if a surfer is looking at a raw pic from a gallery, free site or other marketing tool you're using and decides to type "pornopros" and goes to the website you're fucked if he signs up since the watermark is for a site you can't promote. Sure, you can make sure to never show a raw pic, but it's not something you should have to do in order to protect yourself from a sponsor stealing your money.

IMNSHO/YMMV

[Biggy]

Originally Posted by Simon

nate - it's not *that* they're watermarked, it's that if a surfer is looking at a raw pic from a gallery, free site or other marketing tool you're using and decides to type "pornopros" and goes to the website you're fucked if he signs up since the watermark is for a site you can't promote. Sure, you can make sure to never show a raw pic, but it's not something you should have to do in order to protect yourself from a sponsor stealing your money.

IMNSHO/YMMV

Hey Everyone,

We have an interesting thread here and being the owner of FuckYouCash, I thought I'd respond.

Firstly, our watermarks must be so impactful and effective in steering affiliate joins away from your surfers, that you cannot even remember our brand name correctly. It's "PornPros", not "PornoPros" What we do is really no different than what many of the other major programs do, and many of them don't track on regular traffic as effective as we do using NATS - php sessions, cookies, and direct referral tracking - many forego the first 2, so if a user comes back at all, you get zer0. We take a lot of pride in our affiliate results, because after all, if you don't do well, you will not promote us long term. I don't launch sites so affiliates don't get sales, in fact - if it were up to me, you'd be sending me 100 tracked sales daily, that would mean we both win

The reality is, we watermark our content because it gets stolen and passed around frequently - theres a small issue out there called piracy -- and we want them to go to our main hub and part of longevity in this business is long-term branding. This has little to do with direct affiliate traffic, and everything to do with long term branding. I don't think anyone could argue with the benefits of long term branding.

I think with some affiliates, there is an "us vs them" attitude. I was an affiliate for 5 years before I ever opened a program. I'll give it to you straight. We have a lot of sites - some you'll probably do terrible with, others hopefully you do very well with - theres a real lack of good products, promote us because we ahve some good sites and we'll make you $$$ and more $$$ than the next guy. There will be things you don't like about us - I'm from New Jersey, I'm not perfect If you can find a site that's worth your time, where you do well with it and make your joins, then its a win-win, the watermark will not impact your results. You have extremeporn.com - try disgraced18 & milfhumiliation - see how you do, if it does well then great, if not - at least we tried. Or you can tell me to fuck off over a watermark, that's your right as well, but to say we put that up in hopes of steering joins away from affiliates is just not true.

can we be friends?