Ryan Razer posts on www.lukeford.com: We all know the economy sucks balls. It’s no big shock to anyone to know that we’ve all fallen on hard times and that no matter who you are, the sucky economy has touched each and every one of us. But instead of coming together to try and work together for a positive solution, some companies, rather large ones at that have decided that it’s better for them to steal your traffic and send it over to their advertisers in exchange for money for them. Not you – THEM. So let me be clear here, they are taking your traffic, showing their own ads for Adult Friend Finder and you are getting nothing from it.

So who is this affiliate program stealing your traffic? EFFEX MEDIA! Effex Media has long been suspected of shaving , with a traffic value of about half of a half of a cent per unique visitor. In fact for the year the average value of a person you refer to an Effex Media store is worth $0.003075. That means if you send your Effex Media store 5,000 people, on average you can expect to make about $15.

Their closest competitors would be GameLink and Mallcom. These sites are performing at a rate of about $.03 to $.05 per unique visitor (so we’ll call it $.04 to make it less confusing) which means if you send those same 5,000 visitors to Mallcom or even Gamelink you would have earned on average about $200.

To get the value you take the total amount you earned for a month and divide it by how much total traffic you sent that program. So with those kind of major discrepancies in numbers you can see for yourself why rumors of shaving by Effex Media came about. How can one DVD store earn you $500 and another $20 when you send the same traffic to both? Doesn’t make sense. But that’s not the worst of it. Now they are just flat out taking the traffic you send them and sending it to another affiliate program where they make money and you don’t, yet it’s your traffic!!

Let’s think about that for a moment …… you send your traffic to an affiliate program and in turn they hijack it with one of their own ads and you get paid nothing. That’s theft. Plain and simple. It’s your traffic. They are hijacking it and trying to divert it to their paid advertisers and paying you nothing for the money they are making from Adult Friend Finder.