Is It Ethical When A Network Competes Against Their Affiliates?

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It's business and it can get really dirty, no doubt about it. What keeps the networks from copying your successful campaign, especially if they know every details? Profit sometimes erases the line of moral boundaries. True there are some honest networks but the best way to prevent from theft and circumvention is to build a powerful brand, get your name out there and develop a following. It will be a lot of work, but it will also secure that your efforts are for the long term and you'll be around years from now.
 


EduardoM3 said:
Why is it every post I read from you, is the only one on the thread thats dead on accurate?
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+1 to that Eduardo. Smax is one of the few people on this board actually posting relevant replies any post.

I'm pretty open with my AM's if it's not something that be easily replicated. i.e. I'm biding on some keywords that convert well and sending them to the offer and it's a simple landing page, I will do what I can to hide it. On the flipside if I'm doing well with an offer from a full-blown, content-heavy site, I'll share my URL's and traffic generation methods b/c there isn't an easy way to copy it.
 
smaxor said:
Man you guys stop being naive. Every network I know does all this stuff. That's just how it works. Almost like saying "what networks shave leads?" That's just naive, it's a shady business and anything they can do to make money they're going to that's be bottom line. There's not a network that I haven't heard stories about unless you're dealing with the CJ, Linkshares and shareAsales of the world. Just learn to be smart and protect your assets. I share what I'm doing with my AM's a lot of the time but keep things vague, don't get to into details. I share because I want them to know where the traffic is coming from should their be an issue down the road, they can't claim they were un-informed. But anything like PPC I wouldn't say anything other then "this is ppc traffic" that's enough. Strip you referrers 2 times, double meta's. Make sure you're not passing tell tale info in your url's or cookies.
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Smaxor, double meta's i understand, but how do you exclude any info from cookies?
Thanks!
 
One of my affiliate managers at a network is always talking about how he does PPC. It makes me nervous and honestly I havent run much with them since he told me that.
 
peeon said:
I believe Copeac has an in-house search team and I know back when Millnic was still around they would openly tell some people that they take affiliates data and compete. Take note other networks, look what happened to Millnic.
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LOL what happened to us? And, when did we ever compete with affils?

Dan
 
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