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Originally Posted by LezGeri
I appreciate where you are coming from Mihx. But there is one obvious conflict of interest I see. And that is that it's fairly clear you are very unlikely to review a paysite that does not have an aff. prog.
There are some excellent paysites that don't run them. There's no law that says they have too.
When you rate sites with a high scoring aren't you telling your readers that these are the best sites of their kind available?
I mean how much credibility would a movie critic have who only reviewed films when he/she was on a cut of the box-office takings?
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That part is certainly true. But the fact is, aside from the unlikelihood of me choosing to review a site without an affiliate program (there's your conflict on interest indeed, though I don't have a clue how serious it may be for the reasons I'm going to talk about now), I wouldn't even know where to start if I had to look for paysites without an affiliate program.
And I'm not just talking as a webmaster pretending to be clueless about that particular subject, but as a porn loving surfer as well, who has on a number of occasions over the last couple of years, joined sites purely for personal reasons (entertainment and stuff
) without any intention of promoting or reviewing them (though I've found a few of them so good I did afterwards choose to do just that).
What can I do to find those sites without affiliate programs? Run Google searches for keywords related to some of my favourite niches? Chances are I'll come up with either some of the popular sites (
with affiliate programs) or just end up with blogs, link lists, galleries and other affiliate created pages and sites.
With the possible exception of sites in some small niches I've chosen not to review I may or may not have stumbled across over the years (can't remember any off the top of my head), I can only actually remember one site I was seriously considering reviewing despite them not having an open affiliate program at the time - ALS Scan.
Fortunately said affiliate program (I think they may have had a closed one earlier) opened just a month or two later
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In any case - whether or not I do in fact miss out on some really spectacular sites without affiliate programs, the sites I do award high scores most certainly deserve them in my opinion. And with a membership the surfer might of course risk not getting the very best (that's going to be a matter of personal opinion anyway), but definately what I personally feel is the best based on what I've seen (and I've been able to find some pretty great sites in nearly all the niches I've chosen to review), which is to say if I'm "cheating" anyone here it's probably not the surfer but rather those sites without affiliate programs.
And I don't think a small fish like me would have had much of an impact on their income one way or another anyway
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