The 3 Outgoing Links

[MrYum]

Originally Posted by virgohippy

And how do they expect to make money?



So the total could quite possibly be less than $0!? |shocking|

For them, it's not about making sales directly from the free site. Instead, it's about funneling off traffic to their own sites. Many people will use one of their 3 outbound links to send to their own hub/traffic pump...whatever, and that's fine.

The problem doesn't really come in until they use all 3 outbound links to their own site AND are using sponsor content to do so. Just a few weeks ago, I had a submitter doing exactly that. I declined his site, with an explanation that it's not cool to use sponsor content in such a manner. He of course responded that it was fine and the sponsor wouldn't care. Well, as it happens...the sponsor in question is one that I work with quite a bit, so I discussed it with my contact. Guess what...they were not amused and warned the guy to never use their content in that manner again

Now, before it looks like I'm a complete snitch! lol

When I initially contacted the sponsor, I did not reveal the guys name. However, they were so pissed off about what he was doing...they were adamant that I give them his contact information. And since he'd been sooo sure they wouldn't care...yea, at that point...I snitched him out