Get traffic from review sites?

[spazlabz]

thats about sums it up Hammer... but what you went through sounds a bit tougher to me. Actually this billing company has been very cordial and has helped me deal with a pretty monumental list of things that had to be changed...
it appears as though Visa is or won't be approving any sites in the future that have Urine on/in/about them... and since I had a recip that pointed to a review site that had reviewed a piss site in the past.... we were not compliant...... the problem came about because I just added the recips to warning pages and since those links were new... they were non compliant.

Pain in the ass for everyone involved including the billing company heh heh


spaz

[Hammer]

I understand not linking to a site that directly promotes piss, but are they really going to check every site that a site links to to make sure they don't have any piss content?

[spazlabz]

Originally Posted by Hammer

I understand not linking to a site that directly promotes piss, but are they really going to check every site that a site links to to make sure they don't have any piss content?

here is what happened....
we had a site up for approval that Visa requested the docs on because some of the guys looked 'questionable'
we had the docs to Visa in less then an hour in the format they specified...
the site took much longer then normal to be approved after it had passed our billing companies compliance dept and after we sent the docs...
Since it was part of a network of sites and by joining this new site the member would get access to the other sites as bonuses our billing company decided to do a complaince check on those sites even though they had already been approved...
We had added recip buttons to several review sites recently, so the person from the compliance dept checked on those review sites.
the review sites had done reviews for piss sites in the past.. since Visa does not accept piss sites any longer, neither does our billing company (but if you had piss sites that were approved in the past I think they won't deny you billing now)
since our billing company does not accept piss content (it is now considered non-compliant or 'forbidden' I cannot link directly to anyone who links directly to a piss site on a domain registered within that companies US region.

we fixed it

the problem that I see it is for the actual review sites, esp ones that require a recip. If other programs get their sites checked for compliance and one of the bonus sites they offer is checked and happens to have a recip on it to a review site that.... you know the rest

I just wanted to bring it to everyone attention that this is going on.


spaz

[Hammer]

I'm pretty clear on what happened, but what I don't understand is why they can dictate what sites you can link to if you don't own them or if you don't link to piss sites directly.

Hell, what if you had a link to Google as your exit link? Google has links to sites with piss, scat and everything else, including CP.

[spazlabz]

Originally Posted by Hammer

I'm pretty clear on what happened, but what I don't understand is why they can dictate what sites you can link to if you don't own them or if you don't link to piss sites directly.

Hell, what if you had a link to Google as your exit link? Google has links to sites with piss, scat and everything else, including CP.

LOL i dont know about the google thing, we do have google as our exit link..

as for dictating to us who we link to... I was told in no uncertain terms by {name of other billing company omitted to avoid BS} that as a sponsor that I am responsible for all of the different ways an affiliate sends traffic to our sites as well as the affiliate's sites.

If an affiliate had a link that read 'click here to see the hottest grannies covered in cow dung and pissing on passed out hobos' and it linked to one of our attractive teen girls tours I am responsible for that... Yes I was a bit taken aback by it because it just seemed rediculous to me... however when I talked to the gentleman on the phone and he very clearly explained that they had no way of knowing if it was an affiliate or us generating our own traffic with a tracking code disguised as an affiliate ID.

it sucks ass

it sucks ass in a humangous way

but that is the way it is and the billing companies are just trying to keep their asses as covered as possible. So its up to us to comply. heh heh


spaz

[Hammer]

Originally Posted by spazlabz

If an affiliate had a link that read 'click here to see the hottest grannies covered in cow dung and pissing on passed out hobos' and it linked to one of our attractive teen girls tours I am responsible for that.

Well that sucks, because that's almost exactly how I would have worded the link. But I guess it would be okay if I left out the pissing part, right?

[spazlabz]

Originally Posted by Hammer

Well that sucks, because that's almost exactly how I would have worded the link. But I guess it would be okay if I left out the pissing part, right?

LOL no it wouldnt.. you'd have to leave out the dung and probably the hobo part
new link 'Hottest Grannies'
THAT will sell you some teen site memberships!!
whoohooo!


spaz