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Originally Posted by emmanuelle
Slightly off topic but do you think that sponsors should be allowed to cut off affiliates who also try to leach off their search engine traffic?
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Waaaaay off topic, but I'll reply.
I'm one of the funky fuckers who never liked it when affilliates would purchase copycat domains such as the .info or .org of sponsor sites. Many sponsors don't care about that as long as those domains are used only to promote said sponsor's sites so - no harm, no foul.
Now, if an affiliate is using paysite names to steal traffic while not promoting those paysites, yes - they should be cut off. That's theft, in my mind. Was there some other specific example you were thinking of?
The situation here, where *************** has decided to use GG's, DrB's, Richard's and etc's names, hurts EVERYONE who submits to, or exchanges links with, any of those spammed names/sites. If someone searching for GG ends up at some shitty celeb site instead - (1.) It has robbed GG of that surfer which, in turn, robs those of us who depend on GG (and others) for traffic to our sites and (2.) The surfer feels misled and doesn't know who to blame, GG or ShittyCelebSite.com. Just another way to fuck with a surfer and ruin our business.