Falcon Has A Leaky Blog
Earlier this week Falcon Studios announced, to affiliate webmasters, the addition of their new “Official” Falcon Studios Blog. The new blog (blog.falconstudios.com) is integrated into the existing Falcon properties, and offered as a separate stand alone promotional tool.
Unfortunately this is more of a traffic leak than a true hosted blog. Affiliate IDs do not get passed to each link in the blog. Instead, Falcon has elected to write a 24 hour cookie. The problem with this approach is it completely cuts webmasters out of return (bookmarked) traffic.
Worse, the new blog links to properties outside the Falcon Studios affiliate program. As of this writing there is an article, with link, about the Tim and Roma Show, and blogroll links to the Tim and Roma blog and the Gay Porn Blog. Perhaps I’m alone in this thinking, but why would an affiliate webmaster want to send free traffic to any of these properties?
Webmasters wanting examples of true leak free hosted blogs should visit the Flirt 4 Free and Randy Blue blogs.
