Top 5 Problems Running Your Sites?

[stuveltje]

i have only one big issue, also the reason why i dont make free sites anymore,sponsors who change their urls to their paysites every year, i know that is it mentioned many times here on the net and on the boards, build and forget, why forget a free site made and worked to get traffic there and the sponsor you used changed his links, if you dont changed that then you give the sponsor free traffic and it will only cost you because you will earn no shit, so dont build and forget........i cant build and forget, i need to stay up todate and fucking change all those links every year and that makes me fucked up bad! thats the only thing which bugs me!

[ecchi]

Originally Posted by stuveltje

i have only one big issue, also the reason why i dont make free sites anymore,sponsors who change their urls to their paysites every year

I have a simple solution to that. Don't use those sponsors. A couple of my sponsors changed their code, but kept the old code active, so that old links did NOT become inactive, that is fine. But if a sponsor ever changes their code, and the old ones become invalid, they are history.

This is not just because of the inconvenience, there is also the fact that a Perl script to change the link code at the sponsor's end would take a few minutes to write, and solve the problem (EG the surfers click on a link saying http://www.bongo-sex.com?pro=ccbil&aff=123456, the code then changes it and redirects to http://www.bongo-sex.com?pro=paycom&aff=fred). Even if the sponsor is a 'one man band' type of organisation with no Perl/PHP programming skills, it will not cost much to pay a programmer to write a short piece of code like this (hell I'd do it for $100 and laugh at the way I overcharged them). In fact, I would guess that a quick search of the free Perl resource sites will come up with several free programs that will do the job for you.

So any sponsor who does not do this is either deliberately ripping off his affiliates (changing code deliberately to avoid paying for 'old' traffic) or is so incompetent that he/she will probably not still be in business soon, and you won't get any owed money from a bankrupt sponsor (well maybe ten cents in the dollar five years down the line).

Just don't use that type of sponsor, it will cost you money at some point if you do.

[awlwebmistress]

Sounds like TIME is everyone's biggest issue - mine too. In addition to my personal sites I also work for a couple of different clients on a daily basis - both adult and mainstream.

I will just keep my fingers crossed for the 36-hour day OR the opportunity to clone myself multiple times so I can start delegating some work and free myself up to start all these new projects I've been putting off for years... *sigh*