I did OK as an affiliate but after the move to Texas and the relaunch/re-branding I had a lot of problems, as did many others I know of. As a webmaster, I need reliable hosting and unfortunately GVO eventually fell down on the job just one time too many. I suffered almost two months of downtime following security breaches, hardware failure and incompetent support. Don’t get me wrong, I was happy with them for many years but the damage to my sites rankings and loss of business was way too much in the end, even though I tried to give them time to up their game. I’m not maligning them for the sake of it, and I’m not saying they are a bad host, just that the service was poor during and after the big relaunch. I tried to hold on in the hope they would settle down after all the relaunch excitement but it didn’t happen.

I finally moved to a host with a similar affiliate program structure, a far superior email marketing and autoresponder service, and it costs less than half of the price. No reseller account or conference rooms, but I didn’t really need either. So far, support has been first rate, uptime 100%, faster loading times and the knowledge that my data is in what promises to be a far more secure data center set up at the Planet.

Not trying to rain on anyone’s parade, just sharing a lot of experience. Oh, and as for all the “big name marketers”, sure, some use GVO – but not the service they are selling to others – the big boys are running expensive dedicated servers – you think PayDotCom would stay up long on a Titanium shared account??
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