Get traffic from review sites?

[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

[pam]

Well, I know of a biller in the USA that processes for piss sites with no issues.

I haven't gotten any emails from any sponsor telling me they were removing the link to my review site, but I also don't require a link.

I know CCBill shut down accounts when galleries were listed on a site with Lo*i*a words, but the gallery had nothing to do with that and the gallery wasn't submitted, the site took it from another site.

[spazlabz]

Hi Pam I am pretty sure your one of the review sites I submitted our sites to, but since you didn't require a recip I wouolnd't have sent you the e mail. I don't know about every US Based biller, but the one I am speaking about most definitely required the removal of those recips for the reason specified.

I was told that this is coming down from VISA US and that it will start to take effect across the board. I can only speculate about the accurracy of that or the time frame


spaz

[Hammer]

Originally Posted by spazlabz

I was told that this is coming down from VISA US and that it will start to take effect across the board. I can only speculate about the accurracy of that or the time frame

If that's true it's about as big a bombshell as 2257/4472.

[spazlabz]

Originally Posted by Hammer

If that's true it's about as big a bombshell as 2257.

I agree Hammer and I have to admit when it was told to me over the phone I was a bit stunned. I checked on a couple more occassions with everyone from my account rep to 3 different people in their compliance dept and was pretty surprised when the question was consistantly answered the same way 'no linking directly to a site that links directly to a piss site' i will try and have a rep from the company post here to answer questions, but i thought it was a big deal and surprised that it hadn't been mentioned on other boards.


spaz