Pretty much depends on the offer you are promoting.
Oh yeah, once you have the conversion coming in, it might be necessary to
throw in some junk traffic to dilute the figures. Else some am would come
along and ask you where your traffic is coming from....
Better to stay under the radar....
I run a few sites that are completely whitehat, and I use CJ for certain parts ( I got Google adwords running on the rest ).... so anyway, I recently got one of them call "where your traffic from". I told the vendor plain and simple, I run a rather well optimized site and my traffic has a 4 year history with CJ. No vendor has ever complained about my site.
He got belligerent with me, so I asked him for a small favor
I said " go to my web site and load his page. "
he did.
then I said "reload your page please"
he did and said to me "what the fuck, where is our ad"
I said " open x adserver, keep the conversation going and I'll find a better replacement "
that's been 2 weeks and now I rotate them with another affiliate program. I also wrote a letter to CJ and to the affiliate manager.
CJ wrote back to say they could not understand the person, and the affiliate manager wrote back to advise me that he would handle my account personally.
my white hat sites are in the simplest programs ( hotels.c0m and a few others ) so I don't need to fool around with my traffic, if your sites are clean, then never be under the radar. also don't fear doing redirects, if your site is good and you are bringing traffic from some other sources, no one but yourself has to know about it.
best of luck, and don't fear the Affiliate Manager, he want's to make a buck too.
