Well I don't know what can they really do. I'm pretty sure advertisers are loosing money when the conv rate is "normal" so they need to kill it and profit from the guys still running the offer. The solution would prolly be to offer a lower payout from the start but do you really want this ? In the end, if you're smart, you can profit very well, you just need to monitor closely how goes the offer and kill your trafic when it begins to suck. You win money, advertisers win money, only loosers are not so smart marketers who let the offer run without monitoring...
I've got a good illustrated example here :
ImageShack - Hosting :: convrateep2.jpg
This is one offer, an email submit, all from the same trafic source (facebook in this case, same ad all time). You can see it converts between 40 and 50% until feb 06 and then bam, 20 => 15 => 10 => 5. It just can't be explained by anything else than cheating. A conv rate going down over time is normal and expected but going from 40 to 5 almost over night ? Yeah, right =)
But then again, I grossed more than $6k on this one for minimal work (setup a basic lp, setup the ads, watch stats 4 times a day) so i'm not gonna complain...
Edit: btw i'm also almost sure that scrubbing is user based. Maybe mike or someone involved in a network could confirm this but I think advertisers can see the origin of trafic (well i'm stupid, they just need to check the landing url anyways). So they can say like "user 9394 is sending us too much trafic / not enough quality trafic, let's get rid of 50% of his leads". If you want to play this game long term, then just send them like 50-100 leads a day and you'll prolly be able to keep the offer running longer but I'm not sure you'll win more money this way instead of just trying to max out your leads while conv rate is good.
I've got a good illustrated example here :
ImageShack - Hosting :: convrateep2.jpg
This is one offer, an email submit, all from the same trafic source (facebook in this case, same ad all time). You can see it converts between 40 and 50% until feb 06 and then bam, 20 => 15 => 10 => 5. It just can't be explained by anything else than cheating. A conv rate going down over time is normal and expected but going from 40 to 5 almost over night ? Yeah, right =)
But then again, I grossed more than $6k on this one for minimal work (setup a basic lp, setup the ads, watch stats 4 times a day) so i'm not gonna complain...
Edit: btw i'm also almost sure that scrubbing is user based. Maybe mike or someone involved in a network could confirm this but I think advertisers can see the origin of trafic (well i'm stupid, they just need to check the landing url anyways). So they can say like "user 9394 is sending us too much trafic / not enough quality trafic, let's get rid of 50% of his leads". If you want to play this game long term, then just send them like 50-100 leads a day and you'll prolly be able to keep the offer running longer but I'm not sure you'll win more money this way instead of just trying to max out your leads while conv rate is good.
