POs advertising their own refid

[BehindBlueEyes]

This does not apply to any one site as there are so many doing it. 

For years I see site owners leading in their own referral contests.  Since random refs don't show up there (in most cases) these have come in through the owners own refid. 

I have always felt that POs when advertising their site(s) should use an unreferred link.  People who sign up unreferred get assigned an upgraded member as an upline.  It's just good business sense.  I've been an upgraded member (stacked upgrades with my random referrals at x8) at one program for several years and not received one random referral, while the PO is showing a downline of close to 100 on the referral contest page. 

It's just one of those small things that POs can do for free for their upgraded members to make them happier and more willing to upgrade, but only a few do it.   

[albs]

Totally agree with you there, Blue. What I really hate is seeing an ad for a site praising it & the ref ID is the admin's  :rolls eyes:

[gardenlady]

When I started out as a PO I did that myself as I haven't yet realized the consequences. Today, I totally agree with you and am sometimes a little bit stunned if I even see a rather experienced PO practice this (Don't ask for an example now, I don't recall specifically, I only recall noticing).

What I also used to do way back is creating "accounts" for tracking purposes. For example if I was going to advertise on XYZ I would create an account with that ID. If I got referrals to that account, spread them amongst my upgraded members.

What also is not a good practice is having one's admin account set to for example 500 ref-rotation. Having it set to 1 maybe 2 to give those referrals away in contest etc. is perfectly fine with me - but not ridiculously stealing from upgraded members.

JM2C

Claudi



ETA for typos

[danddwah]

I've got to put my hand up here and say I am guilty of advertising our sites with deb's refid at times.

Not through anything mischievous, but just from copying and pasting links from our spreadsheet which we use to store all our PTP, Banner and Ref links in, and then not deleting the ?refid=deb183 bit.

I have now deleted the ?refid=deb183 from our sites' entries in said spreadsheet so I don't have to remember.

Dave