SPONSOR CHALLENGE - Mayors Money! Put up or pay up! TGP traffic test - Stats inside!

[Greenguy]

Originally Posted by SirMoby

I'm just curious but do the sponsors know the affiliate codes being used or the traffic sources?

Of course they do, but you can throw that argument at anyone that posts their stats, myself included

Originally Posted by tranza

...Can you just tell me why?

Because net weeks sponsor is banned form this (and many other) boards.

Honestly, the only reason that your site is not banned because of the association with them is that I want to see how this 1st test goes.

[tranza]

Originally Posted by Greenguy

Because net weeks sponsor is banned form this (and many other) boards.

Honestly, the only reason that your site is not banned because of the association with them is that I want to see how this 1st test goes.

I didn't know that, I won't be posting their results.

[SirMoby]

Originally Posted by Greenguy

Of course they do, but you can throw that argument at anyone that posts their stats, myself included

Mayor's Money has a great reputation so I think thier test will show accurate results but couldn't another program simply show whatever results they chose?

GG, in your case they'd have to give you increased sales for years but won't many programs throw in extra sales just to increase the ratios for a single week? This just seems silly since a sponsor doing poorly can just add additional sales and then have someone publish the false results for them.

I would bet that Mayor's Money will show accurate results but I'll also bet that within 6 weeks a program will at least be tempted to pad the results. Of course this is great for Sponsor Challenge since they will get the extra payouts but terrible for other webmasters.