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Marketing wise...
Lately I have seen a lot of webmasters opening sites where the webmaster ran a network of TGP/MGP's... The entire network got 800,000 hits a day. Figuring that was plenty of exposure for the websites they planned to open they didn't include affiliates in their business model.
This meant that no one besides for their own TGPs were going to even mention the new girls names...
Their TGP network did get 800,000 uniques a day for all of the sites but they also failed to noticed that they were their own top trades... So 40% of their traffic was indeed not unique at all...
So 480,000 surfers saw their girls... Now 20% of their traffic was bookmarkers... So take out some for the people that are not absolutely new exposures to their sites...
Of their top trades, 20% of their traffic is all bookmarkers too... So even traded traffic is not real new surfers...
So each day only 150,000 people are seeing their new sites in reality. Of those surfers some might be partial to blondes, brunettes, big tits, small tits, latinas, asians, etc...
You can see the problem already I assume...
Had they allowed affiliates they would have got the name of the girl and her likeness (thumbs) out there quicker. Had they had affiliates the domain name would have been in peoples minds and they might have typed it in... People type in milfhunter.com because they see the ads and shit all over the internet... not because they specifically saw it on Sublime Directory... But this other program didn't realize that fact...
They also did not buy any spots on big named TGPs...
So without any marketing they sold their sites to someone else as a last ditch effort to get some money back...
Lesson here is to look at the big picture... Affiliate sales might cost you 40% in your head but they are sales you would not have had otherwise so in effect they are only bringing in money. Also they are advertising even when sales don't come through them... via typins later...
Have a nice day.
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