Affiliate Problem
 

What does one do when an affiliate decides to use unauthorized content to promote your paysite? Sent an emaii 12 hours ago to everyone involved and still up, no response.

depends on what you mean by unauthorised and to what extent.

Is the affiliate taking the piss or actually sending traffic/sales or using content to promote third parties?

Is same unauthorised content readily available on tubes? If so would it not be better to have affiliate rank and send you sales as opposed to tubes sending nothing?

Either way have a word, weight it up sensibly, work it out, give reasonable time for response.

They are using third party content from another paysite (most likely pirated) to promote the paysite.

personally, if a webmaster is using content to provide their traffic a doorway to your program, i´ve never been bothered what content they´re using unless it was full movies from my members area :2 cents:

:1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh OMG I just spit out my water reading that. You would be ok with people using other people's content to promote your site cause you get no traffic unless you beg for it.

Where OP has popular softcore websites and he doesn't want people sending traffic to his program with content, not his. While I don't promote OP I totally see his side in this issue.

Thanks for the laugh Gary!:1orglaugh

Try 24 hours at least.
The webmaster could asleep in a different hemisphere.

To be fair, would ASDA sack an employee for shoplifting as Morrisons? Unlikely.

But then again theres a moral issue, particularly with the state of the industry and how things have changed since tubes. The right thing to do would be ask them to take down the content, after asking if they've permission to use it first of course, but personally if it's generating significant leads - ask yourself what are your competition going to be doing, do tubes take a proactive stance or wait until they're contacted/DMCA'd to ask for removal.

So, until the program who owns the content contacts you to ask if you know what affiliate in question is doing, in which case the obvious answer would be "no, I didn't have a clue", you can either let it slide and sort it when you have to, or just get the affiliate the remove the content an let them continue promoting you ethically.

Could also be away or unavailable for any number of reasons and as the content owner has not contented you, you have no legal obligation to take action, as far as you know it could be his content or own rights, so if you are intent of taking action, give affiliate 28 days to respond otherwise you will 'suspend' their account until enters into correspondence to establish facts and then take action based on whatever they may be.

I'd give them more than 24 hours, but 7 days should suffice for them to get back too you. I guess I'd also look an take into account, how long they have been an affiliate, and how productive they are. Let's be honest with one another, a good affiliate is hard to find these days :1orglaugh So no reason to piss them off by pulling the plug after 24 hours. Get with them and make sure they have access to good promo material from your site, and I'm sure they would rather use it.

The problem that your going to run into with them promoting your site with some one else's content, when the surfer does actually buy a membership, they can't find the content that they thought was going to be on the inside of your members area :Oh crap

So any sales you do get, are going to be limited in their profitability by how long the member stays a paying member.

I think we all know what the right thing to do is, the question is, how many of us will actually do it :pimp

Good luck with your dilemma!

7 days...28 days??? Be happy it's not on a tube??

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The affiliate pulled the gallery, but was very rude about it, of course. For the record, I felt 24 hours was more than fair, or at the very least when I saw the website updated again.

Care to share your network/site(s)?

Nah, I'm good. Not looking to call anyone out.

Depends on how much money it's making.