Thanks for bumping this thread, Carlos - otherwise I would never have discovered it in this huge pool of non-business threads
Anyway, I just got done reading and there's a lot of relevant questions raised and worth considering.
I have a few thoughts regarding this whole issue.
First of all: The role of the search engines
Now I am not saying that the industry is not to blame for the current situation - a lot of factors have contributed, many of which we can thank ourselves for.
However take a look at this example - I search for Mature.nl in US Google safesearch off:
http://www.google.com/search?q=matur...f&start=0&sa=N
Apart from a few exceptions look at the first few pages of results - all torrent sites or similar file sharing pages. And it's the same with most adult keywords - tons and tons of those results.
Does Google etc. have a responsibility to filter out those results? Maybe not. But it definitely goes to show that Google delivers crap results for anything adult related. I have searched specifically for relatively targeted terms that I know we have relevant content about on AdultReviews.net and wouldn't find it in the first many pages of results if at all. But there would always be plenty of results like the example above.
And relating it to the topic - it's no wonder people go to everything but the actual paysites when all they get is results like this.
Secondly: Are sites with content that can't be put on tubes affected?
Most notably cam sites. It's obvious that live cam sites offer something that can't easily be copied since each performance is based on the customer's interaction.
So are sites that mainly feature content that can't be tubed, experiencing a similar decline in traffic and/or revenue?
Thirdly - Porn as a concept
I noticed a few discussing what was "real porn" and what was just poorly produced porn without a script, good acting etc.
Take a look at the definition of Porn according to Wikipedia
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Pornography or porn is the explicit depiction of sexual subject matter with the sole intention of sexually exciting the viewer.
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There is no such thing as "the right kind of porn". Porn is whatever turns the viewer on at this current moment.
I know from myself that even though I have favorite types of porn, I don't always want to see the same kind of porn. I mean you might prefer vanilla ice cream, but sometimes you want to have strawberry ice cream or chocolate ice cream...
But if a surfer finds something he really likes - like say a particular guy's style. For example the guy from
Amateur Allure (aside from the fact that production quality here is very high) - basically the same thing happens in all the scenes, except the girls are different. But if the surfer really likes this guy's style, then finding tons and tons of the same stuff will be exactly what he wants. He doesn't care whether other consider it monotonous.
So I guess what I'm saying is that we can't develop a universal formula for "good porn" for all people. Rather a site should develop its own concept and aim to perfect it.
And finally, Carlos, it seems we have never gotten around to review your site, but feel free to
submit it here and I will make sure we get that done.