Open Comment to Ron Winkler and Linkworth.
New Blog Post on linkworth Blog http://bit.ly/gbXpdG: We Are Changing, So Change With Us: important for Partners to read regarding changes and payouts
I don’t understand how reviewing the list of partner sites affects paying out income already earned.
If that site has been previously approved, but now doesn’t met your criteria, fair enough to remove it. In the past some of your approval techniques had me confused totally. I have in the past had non-existent sites accepted that were submitted in error (I have often various forms of same name) and were not even resolving.
However how does that affect all the income earned to date. After all you approved all of the links on the sites that earned the payouts.
Do not pander to the wishes of the few and upset the majority of your users. You know the ones like myself that still support and promote you despite only having one little $2.50 link payment per month. I submit my sites and you reject them already for stupid reasons.
1/ Too little content. Too often this happens. I have 100′s sites with large amounts of traffic that I will never submit that would incur this error. CMS packages tend not to have multipage structure. I even got this message on a site with 80K of articles.
2/ Our advertisers don’t want foreign Publishers. This has been on multiple sites with a majority of US traffic.
You assume that .com.au / .net.au sites from me an Australian based publisher only gets traffic from Aussies. I first went with Linkworth to monetize the large amount of NON Aussie traffic I get.
3/PR not good enough , this tends to be for Linkposts but has also occurred for sites.
Google themselves state that PR is worthless as a Traffic potential Metric. But still you persist in using it a a rejection criteria. My highest earning sites get a little traffic daily and have pr0 but a conversion factor of 50% or greater because of the Highly focused nature of the traffic. Exactly the sort of motivated users that any linkworth advertisers would love to have click their ads.
4/ Do not lump all minisites together with the MFA/ Scraper brigade. I create Highly focused and use friendly minisites that are made for users not adsense. Exactly the reason I consider linkworth advertisers would like them.
This comment was posted on linkworth and I hope it will be published, if not I have also posted it elsewhere.
