I am wondering what others vendors do when an affiliate sends massive amounts of non-converting junk traffic? It's hard to figure out my overall stats when someone sends thousands of visitors that simply do not convert. I know its not my product because I have plenty of other people converting their traffic with good numbers. How do you handle this type of thing?
I send CB a list of people I want chopped from my program once a week. My affiliate page clearly states what I don't accept, and if I catch 20,000 hops and zero sales, no impressions, etc., they get the chop for swallowing my resources on ppv/shitty traffic that they know they shouldn't be sending (or they learn quick).
Thanks for the reply NC. I can always count on a proper answer from you. So you simply have to contact clickbank with the affiliate id of the person you do not want traffic from and they can take care of that for you?
I have done the same a couple of times in the past and the affiliates id no longer showed in my analytics.
I can afford to pay for bandwidth too, but thats not the point - ban them, theyll lower your overall conversion rate if you care about showing this stat to affiliates... which you should.