This email contains important information about the Celebrity Bling affiliate program. Due to several issues beyond our control, we will no longer be operating an affiliate program for our network of Celebrity Sites. As of the 1st June, the Celebrity Bling Affiliate Program will be closing to all webmasters, both new and existing, and the paysites will be closed to external promotion.

Unfortunately, where licensed celebrity content is concerned, we are a walking target when affiliates choose to break our rules by promoting illegal content ... and no matter how many times its mentioned, how clearly the rules are written or how many times this is explained, affiliates continue to send celebrity porn traffic to paparazzi sites.

While most Celebrity sponsors who offer Celebrity porn content have carefully found ways to avoid legal issues that come from promoting controversial material, we have not had the ability to hide due to our public partnership with one of the leading celebrity stock companies in the world. For every webmaster who writes 'beyonce knowles nude' and sends that traffic to us, we are completely responsible and publicly accessable should a celebrity wish to take further action.

While we have had success with our own in house traffic, and some webmasters have found ways to convert and retain paparazzi traffic, overall the program has never evolved from its beta stage or converted at acceptable levels - mainly due to the surfers expectation of celebrity porn content, which we simply can't offer. Unfortunately the issues stemming from having affiliates and an affiliate program with licensed content in this niche far outweighs the traffic and benefits brought in by affiliate marketing.

To make the process as smooth as possible, we will be offering all webmasters 2 options to assist with changing links - we can provide webmasters with a full list of referring url's which are sending traffic, and we can have all left over traffic redirected to the url you have chosen as your exit console. To ensure the program is closed with the minimum inconvenience to you and your flow of traffic, please contact me with the details below.

1) Please reply by email if you would like your list of referrering url's sent to you

2) All traffic will be redirected as of the 1st June to the url you have set as your exit console. If you do not have an exit set, please login to your stats and do so. If you would like this to occur prior to the 1st June please reply to this email and I will activate exit redirection on your account immediately.

3) Payments will be processed and finalized over the coming weeks via wire or paypal, but many webmasters have not yet added their details to their accounts. Please login to your account and update either a paypal account or wire information and you will be contacted shortly with further details and payment confirmation.

While the licensed celebrity content has been excellent to work with and fun to market, it simply doesn't suit the adult industry and the marketing techniques which are successful in Adult Entertainment. I will be continuing in the Celebrity niche, however as a free site operator using my existing traffic to move further into the mainstream industry. I would love to use the resources at my disposal to return the support you have shown me, so stay tuned for details of places you can add your site to get traffic from my network with priority listings and premium spots for link swaps.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank all of you for your involvement in Team Bling, and for the assistance you have given me in testing the program in the adult marketplace. I am fortunate to have formed many valuable relationships that have evolved over the years which have helped me plan the best course of action for the future, and I hope that I can continue to work with many of you far into the future to achieve those goals. I apologize for the inconvenience caused to you with the changing of links, and if there is anything I can do to make the transition smoother please contact me.

Again, thank you for all that you have done for Celebrity Bling and I hope to work with you again in the future.