I've been realising that 99% of sponsors totally fucking suck...
The whole sponsor/affiliate thing is supposed to make it possible to separate paysite management and traffic generation/ marketing, allowing both parties to focus on what they're good at. Most sponsors just suck balls and do a hundred little things to basically fuck the affiliate... tours with spelling mistakes, or that just miss the niche slightly, link predominantly to the join instead of second page, popping entry consoles, join pages that deliberately don't convert (for exits and email address harvesting), stealing international traffic and cheque joins, obnoxious email boxes, fhg redirects, tours don't work with js disabled, and then you get into the 30% average shave...
It seems you're either stuck with taking less than your traffic is worth, or you go the paysite route. I would love to be able to just send my traffic somewhere and have the sponsor do their job of really trying to convert it... but so few do.
