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Originally Posted by Tempest
Don't put words in my mouth... Go back and read what I REALLY said...
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I did. I quoted what you said. Maybe I'm taking it wrong...but it pisses me off to see someone who thinks they are in this business act like that. You've always been a disrespectful person on here to me. And I know you hide behind your nickname so you can act like a jackass towards people without retribution. But damn man...
Look, as an affiliate I started in this business a long time ago. Back then we had to BUY our own content, build our galleries, and host it ourselves. Now it's laid out on a silver platter so that the laziest of the lazy can easily promote a site (that is, IF you have any traffic) You're smartass comment about "players" is funny to me because many of the people you think of as players got some of their first links from me on Ampland 10 years ago.
If you'd like, I'll be as civil and keep this an intelligent discourse about what you said.
Here I go: Yes, as a content producer I do want to brand my stuff. Yes, I do hope to get a type in from people recognizing my stuff. No, it usually doesn't happen the way you are insinuating. From my experience with my TGP's the chances of a surfer going to a hosted gallery, deciding to check the site out but instead of clicking the link doing a type in...aren't that great.
Chances are they are in a hurry and WILL click your link. As a guy who promotes stuff, you of all people should know the power of branding. Also the fact that a lot of times people DO NOT buy right away. Many times they look at something, but don't have the time to do the signup form. Or maybe they need to wait until the end of the week when it's payday. A million little reasons in life.
So when they come back to their computer and they have been thinking about joining the site you promoted to them and they type it in...THERE is where that cookie that Shap was talking about comes into play.
From the site owners perspective...it's all about branding and marketing. I think when you may have had someone say they were "protecting" their content, that may have been what they mean..."protecting" = "branding" in that scenario. I could definitely see where those words could casually become interchangeable in these days of stolen content all over torrent and illegit tube sites.