Originally Posted by Head Boy

So it would appear that the percentage of sales allocated to affiliates is declining. If the amount of traffic sent by affiliates has remained static, then either the affiliates are cheating and sendin crap traffic, or they are being disadvantaged by sponors. I suspect that it's a bit of both, but where does the honest affiliate go in the future?

One answer is to start his own paysite, another is to sell clicks through aggregators. Of course click sales are already subject to massive amounts of fraud, and I guess it will be a just reward for the sponsors to be the victims rather than the perpetrators.

An interesting alternative is for a group of affiliates to create a billing cooperative to work with some of the more honest sponsors.