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GFY is becoming a nightmare. People pointing fingers at deceptive marketing, shaving, fraud, bad ratios, you name it half of you are thinking it.
Yes, their are companies that fraud the member, the webmaster, ect but the world of the message board has opened up a great way of communication. Most programs that do fraud are now busted and blasted out, only picking up a smaller webmasters after that point.
The one point I want to make on this post isn't about fraud. It's about the bitch that everyone makes about traffic. Paysite owners blaming free sites for putting out to much 'free' content or to hardcore, ect. While free site owners blame paysites for poor conversion ratios, normally based on shaves or shitty sites. Which may be true in some cases, for the most part it isn't.
I'm here to set the record straight for both sides. This post will be rather long.
Traffic: traffic is traffic. We put traffic into a category of high quality and low quality. Which is true but not in the way everyone thinks. Over the years traffic has NOT dropped in quality. It is exactly the same as it was. The difference is now more people know that their is a larger selection of porn. 1000's of teen paysites, celeb sites, pay and free. The surfer has lot's to choose from. It work's exactly like walmart. Some people come in to look, others to buy one or two things, while others spend tons of cash. Impulse buys or some guy that comes in for 2qt's of oil and leaves.
The reason walmart works so well is the selection. The adult 'world' is like a huge walmart. Massive amounts of selection but owned by 1000's of different people. It's not all put together in one easy to surf freesite/paysite, it's not even possible really. I visit the mall at times to look and not to buy right now. If someone markets me correctly though, I will pull out the cash and buy it.
So if your traffic ratios suck, don't blame the sponsor, traffic, blame yourself for not giving out a wider selection of products to get the sale.
The only 'bad' traffic for us is traffic without a CC, Check book, phone, ect. As well as underage persons. Flat useless traffic. The same type of traffic every store in the world get's. We do get this 'bad' traffic type but not as much as everyone thinks.
Proof of this is in conversion ratios. 2 webmasters both get listed on The Hun. Both get around ... 200k uniques a day from The Hun. One webmaster converts 1:2000 and get's 10 signups the other converts 1:50 and get's 30. (just as an example). The same thing can happen with SE, type in, e-mail traffic, ect. It's not a traffic quality difference, it's a marketing difference.
Type in traffic which seems to be classed with a higher quality traffic is just normal traffic. It converts better because it's filtered from the user side. He types in wetgirlsonbikes.com and a site comes up with it, he stands a chance of converting as it's what he is looking for. Type in traffic also happens for people in a rush or pissed off they could not find what they wanted, typed in a name, it worked, they become happy and buy. It's super filtered traffic, much like the exits of paysites.
Instead of bitching about either side of the game, learn to market your products better. Do your research on a company when you signup for the program, I know I look at your sites after you signup.
Now for some known facts, that most people don't know about. Everyone complains about fraud, cheating, shaving, ect. From trade scripts to money programs. The fact is 'MOST' do not shave or cheat the webmaster or member. Mistakes is a better term. Mistakes in code, graphics, wording, ect.
Help ya understand this more, I will give away a secret. Everyones trade scripts, money programs, dildo shops, whatever you can think of that has GET var tracking codes. Which is
www.domain.com/index.php?blah=blah is fucked. What sucks is it's the only known way to track traffic right now. The problem with this form of tracking is it it's fucked. Between web browsers and settings, os settings, firewalls, isp firewalls, and about 1 million other factors it 'shaves'. The more tracking the less of a shave it has. I would say 90% of all money programs AND trade scripts use php sessions with cookie tracking. Fact: it will shave 20%+. Failure points are each tour page, join page, post methods, just about every point they can change page's is a point. Which means EVEN the processor can miss signups, they belong to nobody type thing. So you know at this current time their is no known solution to this problem. People can reduce the problem by adding in like 5 different ways to track, but it WILL still fail at some points.
If you want to help the adult industry, then figure out solutions to real issues rather than bitching about your conversion ratios thinking a money program shaves you. Same for paysite owners saying 'free' sites are at fault.
When this industry really started, of course it was easy to convert traffic. Out of the very little amount of traffic you had they wanted anything they could get. I remember when intergal was the first paysite with hidden cam videos, sales went nuts, CE used to be about the only full blown money program so yes, sales went through the roof. Now in a world with a wide option of niches people tend to be more selective, just like buying can food products, they want one type, one brand, one size but they have 300 different ones to pick from, so they are selective. If one store doesn't have it, they go to another.
As surfers become smarter we have to think of better ways to attack them. From the erotic look/feel that men thrive off of to soft erotic story like sites that the ladies like. The adult industry is a massive recycling bin. Ideas come up, 200 people grab the idea, 3 months later it's trash. If you want to make the most money then think of new ways to market, ask paysite owners if you can submit your own tours for private use or your own paysite under their wing, lots will say yes, lots will say no.
I'm sure to get flamed for this, i'm sure a few paysite owners will call me up asking me why in fuck I posted what I did. I posted it to help everyone understand that will take the time to read it and really think on it. The one thing I know about is traffic. From having many tgp sites, cj, top lists, mailers, se spam, paysites, ect. It's my niche.
