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Originally Posted by IllTestYourGirls
@Robbie. But thank god they did or I would have not known where to start. Now Im making myself and sponsors some nice money. But it is a double edge sword.
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I know what you're saying...but how about starting like we did back in the day? You know, trial and error is a part of learning the business and getting better at it by a more thorough experience in it.
I'm not attacking Zuzana by the way. I'm just saying...
If there is one silver lining in the declining affiliate model it is that a lot of programs are starting to stop webmaster referrals. I've never been a fan of them ever. In my humble opinion putting a "Webmasters Make $" in huge fonts on a paysite is lunacy. And over time it hurt this business.
So maybe now that nobody has any REAL traffic numbers (unless they are named "Pornhub") like we used to have...maybe paysite owners will see the complete waste of money that webmaster referrals are.
Hell, I NEVER used them. I always surfed sites that I respected myself. I looked at what they were promoting. Then I surfed those tours. Then I wrote the owners. And I would meet the owners at conventions. I currently have over 500 programs in my stats remote.
In my opinion that is the best way to decide who you are going to promote. And if someone like Zuzana wanted to make a list that you had to get a user/pass from her to access that listed a bunch of good sponsors, I see no problem with that at all.
I just think that putting stuff out there for the world to see is the complete antithesis of good marketing. And I don't care if there "have always been" "resource" pages or not.
These days surfers are a lot sneakier and dishonest. (just look at pornbb dot org for proof)
And they search out all this info. Hell, lots of them used to try and join as an "affiliate" just to get content. They don't bother with that anymore thanks to piracy.
Anyway, even though things are really bad...it's still never too late to practice good marketing strategies.