If you’ve been in the Internet Marketing field for any time, you’ve probably seen many ads over the past couple of months for a service called More Than Traffic (MTT).

I actually signed up as a MTT Affiliate back in March - on the 23rd to be exact - but I have not been promoting this program because I wanted to make sure that it wasn’t a scam first. (There are many similarities between MTT and a program that I ran into at the end of 2004 called Monopolizer, which did turn out to be a scam.)

Now the service, if it actually works as advertised, would be pure advertising nirvana. However, I didn’t want to promote something that I had any misgivings about, so I decided to test it myself first. So here’s a recount of my experience with MTT so far…

I signed up as an affiliate with MTT on March 23 and immediately ordered a package for one of my affiliate programs. I did have some initial problem with sending the payment, so the payment actually got processed the next day - March 24. Cost: $169.

So, today (June 14) I am now 82 days into their traffic delivery process - well beyond the 68 days they quote for starting to see traffic delivered to my URL. In my Client Back Office, it shows that my traffic delivery system is at STEP 09 - “Test traffic engaged… Sending start up traffic volume… Still refining… Test traffic being delivered from software network and Search Engines… Software actively refining in real-time… Collecting live data from test traffic… Flow increasing… Please wait for traffic alerts by email…”

However, I have NO traffic being sent to my affiliate link (I have a tracking code, so I know where my traffic is coming from), even though one of the traffic delivery emails that I previously got (on May 2 to be exact) stated that “Your delivery is scheduled 68 days from payment. The delivery is heavy duty between day 68 and day 120. The peak time is between days 80 and 120.” So I’m now even 5 days into their “peak time” for traffic delivery with nothing to show for it.

Also, since I ordered this package through my own affiliate link, I should have gotten $100 in commission for this ’sale’. According to MTT… “Commission is paid-out 30 days after order payment’s month end”
AND
“Definition of 30 days: Your client pays for order on 27th April 2006. MTT calculates 30 days after 30th April 2006 and pays you. Prior to payment on the 30th day you will receive an email with a link to a private electronic statement asking you to confirm
your details and amount due and where you would like us to send your MTTaffiliate+commission. Complete this online and submit it back to us. Payment is made via your chosen method on the 30th day exactly.”

So by my understanding, I placed the order on Mar 24, so I should have been paid commission 30 days after Mar 30/31 ie. April 30. However, I got no indication of any payment or request for approval of payment after April 30. So on May 6 I submitted a support ticket about this, to which they sent out a canned response on May 12 with the info about the 30 days quoted above. So I responded to that email re-iterating the
dates of my order etc. Then on May 18 I got what seemed to be a more personalized reply that stated:

“Please read the commission terms again:
Your affiliate commission is queued currently to be paid out
at the end of May 2006.
This commission will be paid to you 30 days after May 1st.
You will get an e-statement in the last week of this month.”

So I guess commissions get *calculated* 30 days after the end of the
month that the order was placed, and THEN get PAID another 30 days
after that?

Anyway, the very next day, May 19, I got an email from “Jean” with an
“End of monthly cycle accounts notice” and sure enough there was now a link in my Affiliate Back Office for commission payments.

But… of course when I clicked on the link, it just said that commissions would be processed on May 31, and that I should click on the link then - on May 31.

Finally, on Jun 1 (not May 31 like it had said), when I clicked on the commission link, it provided notice of my $100 C1 commission payment due for the Mar 2006 order and asked me to approve that payment amount. When I clicked on the link to approve the commission payment I then got a notice stating the following…

“Thank you for accepting your C1commission payment. This commission
will be processed and sent to you by postal check/cheque to the address
listed in your affiliate member area. This will be administrated now. Your
member area will alert you when this payment has been sent. Please check
your member area on the 15th of this month. Your MY CLIENTS list will
display PAID instead of UNPAID when sent.”

Notice it says that I will be paid by check even though I’ve selected the option to be paid by PayPal in my account profile. So I guess tomorrow when I check my back office, it will state that I’ve been paid, and then I’ll have to wait a week or so to see if a check arrives.

I’ll keep you posted with how things are going over the next couple of weeks.

Sorry this was soooo long, but I wanted to give you all the facts, and not just opinion.

Paula.