OK this was not my idea, it came from a chat with an affiliate and seeing what a few others do.
Up until August we had a normal tour, except for the models page the surfers had to guess what was inside the site. Ratios were climbing as the traffic grew less in quality to 1-650. Then September we opened up the site, so the surfer saw everything he was buying.
Ratios dropped to 1-500 over September, in October they dropped further 1-330 and are staying around this now, 1-350 on more traffic. These ratios are all traffic affiliates and ours.
If you think about it, it's totally logical. A surfer sees everything he will get for his $30. OK only the thumbs but it's better than just a normal tour.
Here are some of the benefits. You are welcome to add to them or tell me the disadvantges.
A) SE bots now visit us every day, with the text of all the site and it changing daily it's very interesting to the SE spiders and got visits from about 60 of them in the last few days. Is this good?
It's hits,and date from Googlebot
15262+25 20 Nov 2006
We get some nice traffic from the SE.
Yes I need to optimize the text and working on it all the time. Not very good at it.
B) The affiliates get to see what they are selling. Gives them a far better idea how to sell your site and reassures them they are not selling a site ripping off the surfers.
Also enables them to target promote one girl, by adding the page they want the surfer to go to they add the landing page URL to the end of their CCBILL link page. So if you want to promote a girl like Grace, you add this at the end.
http://www.paulmarkhamteens.com/memb...odelNick=grace
Will work for any girl or category like lesbians
http://www.paulmarkhamteens.com/memb...=g/g&orderby=7
C) Lets surfers see what they are buying. In a market that sadly has a portion of people who think screwing surfers is the way forward this shows the surfer you are to be trusted. Big think when you're asking for $30.
D) Screws the competition. How many site are better off by NOT SHOWING the surfer what he's buying?
One of the best things for this industry, in my humble opinion
, would be VISA making all sites do this. Yes it would screw a few sponsors and sites, but think about how it would improve trust of those who buy from us and more importantly those who do not.
OK, don't come back and tell me what a little site I have, how little traffic I have and what an arrogant idiot I am. I know these things.
I'm telling you because the more who follow this route the better we make the business and a few affiliates might give me a try. Yes clever spamming.