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Originally Posted by Jens Van Assterdam
Why is tube traffic sold out most of the time?
Why are tube ad spots sold out most of the time?
Why do they rank so great in SE´s ?
Why are sponsors more and more adopting to tube sites?
Why do you see thousands of new tubes a day?
Because their traffic is shit and they all make no money. Exactly.
Tubes are surfer friendly. Tubes give the surfer EXACTLY what they want.
Good thing is, that starting a tube and keeping it up requires more then $10 bucks per month, so most webmaster wont even think about launching a tube. That keeps the competition low and there is more money to be made for me. Thanks  |
That sounds pretty cool. Except tubes don't make money from signups to paysites. They make that pre-paid spot from a dating site. None of that has anything to do with the real porn business. It's just a traffic issue.
As far as giving the surfer exactly what they want...tube site owners have NO idea who their traffic is. You don't work traffic. But I have for over 10 years. And I KNOW what all that traffic is. It's a LOT of teenage boys jerking off. We used to have them on our TGP's. But now they are all over on the tubes. Can't blame them for that.
But for tube site owners to claim they know what surfers want...that's ridiculous. A tube site is a script. Plain and simple. No human touch from the owner. Tubes give teenagers a place to jerk off. Damn, I only wish that there had been such a thing when I was a teenager.
And for the traffic SELLING part of your equation...that traffic is complete shit when it comes to productivity. What it is useful for is for people to buy it to pump up their numbers so they can sell advertising on their sites. Plain and simple.
I'd take ONE unique hit from my tgp's, or AL4A, or WorldSex, or The Hun, or Joggs, Boobster, or any REAL free site over 100,000 blindlinked tube hits any day of the week if you want to talk productivity...or in laymans terms: the chance that it's a person who INTENDED to come to my site from your site and might actually spend money.
Those blindlinked tube site hits aren't gonna be anything but a pissed off surfer who can't wait to click back out and go back to your tube to watch some more free porn.
Tube owners are smart, I'm not attacking you. And your traffic is valuable to use to pump up numbers and get a good alexa rating. It has it's place. But I used to get paid a nice BIG sum for some prepaid spots when our TGP's were huge. But even that substantial amount of money was small compared to the money we make selling memberships to paysites. I'm guessing that you are supplementing that pre-paid spot by selling the cheap traffic.
That's smart. Here's a tip from an old school guy: Get paid in cash for those pre-paid spots. Can't tell you how many times we would be at shows and have envelopes full of cash handed to us for a years text link spot. That shit is sweet!