Affiliates: free content versus own content

[ecchi]

Originally Posted by Halfdeck

I get the thrust of your argument, but its a bit over the top

No, it is a fair point: A few years back when most link lists and TGPs accepted sponsor's content, I spent a lot of time setting up free sites and TGP galleries with it. Then one of my sponsor's stopped doing an affiliate program. They were fair about it, they emailed everyone and told them that they were giving up paying about 2 months in advance, to give you a chance to pull their stuff. But as I was using their free content I could not redirect sponsor clicks from all the sites, because it was still their copyright content. I could not even just change all the piccies because these were free sites listed on link lists and galleries listed on TGPs and I would have got blacklisted. So I had wasted all that time. And worse, I could not even pull the sites as this would mean about 20% of my free sites and galleries would 404, which would also got me blacklisted with the TGPs and link lists, so I had to continue paying bandwidth for sites sending these guys free traffic.

Happy, I was not.

Here's an idea I just came up with, will it work?

You can be the judge of my idea to see if it works for you.

If you find my content drives good traffic, that spends money, to a sponsor who does not buy from us, then speak to the sponsor.

Tell him about the content and how well it works for you.

Any content the sponsor buys, I will also give a copy to the introducing affiliate, free of charge.

The sponsor can't give our content to anyone else, the affiliate can use it within the confines of our license.

Simple enough?

[[BV]]

Originally Posted by Paul Markham2

Here's an idea I just came up with, will it work?

You can be the judge of my idea to see if it works for you.

If you find my content drives good traffic, that spends money, to a sponsor who does not buy from us, then speak to the sponsor.

Tell him about the content and how well it works for you.

Any content the sponsor buys, I will also give a copy to the introducing affiliate, free of charge.

The sponsor can't give our content to anyone else, the affiliate can use it within the confines of our license.

Simple enough?

Does that include GUBA?

Originally Posted by [BV]

Does that include GUBA?

Especially those cock suckers. Would love to see them buy content.

Or do they give their affiliates content from their site?

[Chop Smith]

Originally Posted by Paul Markham2

Here's an idea I just came up with, will it work?

You can be the judge of my idea to see if it works for you.

If you find my content drives good traffic, that spends money, to a sponsor who does not buy from us, then speak to the sponsor.

Tell him about the content and how well it works for you.

Any content the sponsor buys, I will also give a copy to the introducing affiliate, free of charge.

The sponsor can't give our content to anyone else, the affiliate can use it within the confines of our license.

Simple enough?

Paul give us a break! You have managed to spam the hell out of this thread.

You also have demonstrated your cut 'n paste skills by grabbing this from http://greenguysboard.com/board/showthread.php?t=30699 which happens to be a thread of yours that got moved to 'Products and Service".

[Halfdeck]

Originally Posted by ecchi

No, it is a fair point

ecchi, I didn't say his point was invalid.

Paul, there's nothing wrong with content providers voicing their opinion, but you aren't really discussing an issue, you're advertising. Nothing wrong with that either, but then don't be surprised when people don't buy your arguments because your words are agenda-driven.

You're not really succeeding in building trust with this thread. You refuse to look at free content/traffic issue from all sides. Ultimately, the choice between free/bought content depends on who you promote and how you promote them.

You make a sweeping generalization that ultimately leads to the convenient conclusion -- everyone should buy content, specifically your content. Your last few posts are nothing but "Have I got a deal for you!" I just don't buy it.

Originally Posted by Halfdeck

ecchi, I didn't say his point was invalid.

Paul, there's nothing wrong with content providers voicing their opinion, but you aren't really discussing an issue, you're advertising. Nothing wrong with that either, but then don't be surprised when people don't buy your arguments because your words are agenda-driven.

You're not really succeeding in building trust with this thread. You refuse to look at free content/traffic issue from all sides. Ultimately, the choice between free/bought content depends on who you promote and how you promote them.

You make a sweeping generalization that ultimately leads to the convenient conclusion -- everyone should buy content, specifically your content. Your last few posts are nothing but "Have I got a deal for you!" I just don't buy it.

You have me wrong.

I can see instances where free content is good, when the niche or style of the site is such that it has to be content from the site. When a site is so under promoted content from the site and bought have no difference, when am affiliate is new and learning how to drive traffic buying could break him. When it is simply not profitable to buy.

But there are many instances when buying content to drive traffic is a good choice the one stumbling block is that the bought content is not on the site, my option resolves that.

My harsh words about GUBA are about anyone who makes money from stolen content and content submitted to newsgroups is often stolen, selling access to it is not on as far as I'm concerned.