Fucking sponsors changing fhgs.

[Head Boy]

So I get myself a nice niche domain, and I find some FHGs that are on-topic. I make up an index page and support pages with thumbs and text linking to those galleries. A year later I discover that the fucking sponsor has changed the girl and the primary message on a replacement gallery. What's the point of having a gallery with some grinning ape waving his cock around and getting a lipstick job on a solo girl masturbation site? Even worse is when it goes to a 404 page.

I really don't want to have to check thousands of pages on a monthly basis, just to pick up on these sponsors who think that surfers need variety, even if it isn't relevant to the site theme.

[MrMaxwell]

Fuck, yea, that's ridiculous.. I've even had a sponsor close down a whole site and just redirect the traffic to another pre-existing site... I was thinking, hey, soamfb.

[Dagwolf]

Sponsor changes can be a real pain.. shutdowns, content recalls, TOS changes.

[Player Rob]

Stability is everything in my opinion with a sponsor. Once it is there it stays there. Changing an FHG is nothing though to the wankers who change over link codes and dont give credit on the old codes.

[kill4]

Happens alot. I've ran into galleries like that lately, actually the ones I have found the gallery is still up, it's just when you click the pic to watch the video or whatever it goes to 404 page.

[RageCash-Ben]

Originally Posted by kill4

Happens alot. I've ran into galleries like that lately, actually the ones I have found the gallery is still up, it's just when you click the pic to watch the video or whatever it goes to 404 page.

I would disagree.

Sure occasionally shit does happen like in Headboys post but the vast majority of FHG's never change.

[kill4]

Will i did exaggerate a bit, but it does happen. More then i would like. if there gonna make fhg for aff's and take something down after a while maybe they should make some sort of script that scans their galleries every month or so, instead of making them available to us.

[Head Boy]

Gallery of the day is a great concept for affiliates that want a changing page. It could be a good idea for sponsors to provide a bunch of changing galleries for those who want to use them. Changing a static gallery to "freshen up" the traffic is a real nuisance, even if the gallery has a low click through. I try to select galleries to give a domain a character, and if too many sponsors fiddle with their promo stuff after I've started using it, then I'll just send my traffic to an aggregator.

[budz]

I agree.. I hate when that happens.

Almost makes me want to program a bot to watch for changes in supposedly static pages/link trades etc

[LezGeri]

I've complained about this before.

The worst cases I've had is when a straight or lesbian fhg changes to a gay fhg or vice-versa. That is just unbelievably stupid.

I think it's down to coding errors a lot of the time & using totally automated systems to generate galleries. I've caught sponsors out a few times who've released galleries without any human actually looking at them to see if they are ok. I mean this is what they admit has happened.

[Red Metal]

Stability is everything in my opinion with a sponsor. Once it is there it stays there. Changing an FHG is nothing though to the wankers who change over link codes and dont give credit on the old codes.

I hope program owner reads this .

On a sidenote, I just found out a sponsor has deleted my account , but did they let me know ?

No , they just take the traffic/sales , and I don't get anything in return .
How much work is it to send a email or something ?

Fuckers.

[Loreen]

It happened to me, too, with nextdoorgirlfriends.com
I made a blog for them, it had good traffic and build ~10 recurring members in 1-2 months and then I get a mail all of the sudden that the program is closing down because they get lots of "fake" girlfriends submissions so they don't know if what they're posting on their site is real gf material or stolen stuff.
So they wipe all the FHGs from the net and leave an empy page as their site...

[LezGeri]

Originally Posted by Loreen

It happened to me, too, with nextdoorgirlfriends.com
I made a blog for them, it had good traffic and build ~10 recurring members in 1-2 months and then I get a mail all of the sudden that the program is closing down because they get lots of "fake" girlfriends submissions so they don't know if what they're posting on their site is real gf material or stolen stuff.
So they wipe all the FHGs from the net and leave an empy page as their site...

That site has clearly completely closed down due to legal issues.

That's really a different issue, but shows it is a good idea to consider the legality as well as the saleabilty of a sponsor's website/s before you put time, effort & money into promoting them.