Apologies to anyone who either doesn't know this website or who doesn't use it in their capacity as an affiliate, but Project Voyeur has been stealing well-intentioned Webmaster's content.
Who is 'Project Voyeur' (
http://www.projectvoyeur.com/)? PV is a picture (and some video) posting site, user-submitted, that also posts 'ProShow' pictures (that's the name of the section) with links back to a model's website. Sites like these once ruled the day but now they are shrinking fast as they find their business models unsustainable.
What IS their 'business model'? Amatuers send them pictures (for free, of course) and try to win Prize Money for the Best Contribution. Many have prizes for many categoires (Best 'In Public', Best MILF, etc). But how do these sites actually PAY the Prize Winners"
Sites like Project Voyeur earn revenue, not from Google ads or cross-sells or sponser ads or banner trades/sell or any of that (or, if they do it's minimal at best), but by selling Memberships to their own 'archives': for one low price (usually under $25 a year) you get access to their entire library of (free, user-and-webmaster-submitted) submissions.
Yes, so in the end, they are monetizing
your promotional material. But for years the trade-off a pro site got in terms of traffic, publicity and memberships to a girl's site more than made up for it (or closely, anyway).
A few months ago Project Voyeur moved it's 'ProShow' section from it's free public site to
inside their subscription-only section.
WTF??? So no more traffic from PV, right? Myself (and a few other webmasters, too) complained and PV's response was: "Well, the traffic you will NOW be getting, from inside our paid area, will be 'better' traffic because it's filtered, it's coming from people already used to paying for porn..."
Hmmm....'used to' paying $25 a year as opposed to $29.95 every month...but h'okay....
So I continue to submit pictures (and videos) from my sites. A month goes by, then another, and I begin to noitice: no traffic coming from Project Voyeur anymore! Huh.
So I contact them via email to the site owner, nothing. (The owner has always responded to me; I've posted thousands of pictures for over four years to this site, and had their link on almost every page in my network, sending them - accoring to my stats - over 60,000 uniques over the course of the last 14 months, which includes the two months of me not getting any traffic back).
I send a Support Ticket. Nothing. Finally, after 3 weeks, I send them a Final Email saying, in part: "Please either give me a temp pass to your archive section, or provide screencaps with the link back to my _ site." Nothing again. So I bit the bullet and Joined myself.....
You guessed it. So I send THEM screencaps going, 'Where's the link?"
No answer. Hell-
o-o-o-o? (I can hear my own echo...)
There ya go. So anyone sending in pictures to Project Voyeur, hoping/expecting to have links back to their sites and expect/hope to get traffic/sales from them......
Please STOP. It ain't happenin'. Don't be a shmuck and give your shit away for free (and we ain't even talkin' about how PV LIES as regards their 'views'/CTR. They used to show 60,000 'views' for a submission but I'd barely get 200 uniques. Do the math.
Puh-LEASE.)
