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Originally Posted by bossku69
i believe a number of people who sign up for adult sites are college students, either living in the dorm or having their own apartment. once school lets out, they have to return home and fear browsing porn on their parents internet connection; hence the summer and xmas slow down.
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Yep... well almost. You are certainly right about the impact of college students on traffic: traffic to free sites like TGP's in particular. Throw in people who browse at work (many of whom go on vacation during the summer) and you have the reason why the summer decline is the strongest.
The good news is that in my experience, the decrease in sales is much smaller than the decline in traffic, because so many in this group of surfers are confirmed freeloaders who never buy anything.
BTW those in this thread who talk about working harder through the summer have to be kidding. Anyone who wanted to minimize the impact of summer needed to be doing the work months ago and it should have been focused on sites and pages which don't simply give content away. By the time anything you do now starts to work, this summer at least will be about over...