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Originally Posted by will76
Sales are down not traffic. There are less affiliates because there are less sales being made and profit margins have shrunk for pretty much everyone over the last 10 years. I use to operate at a 85% profit margin, now I am closer to 50%. Mainly due to poor conversions, which is directly due to less people buying porn and just surfing it but mainly less people being able to buy because of no room on their credit card.
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We started dropping Affiliates before sales started to fall...
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Originally Posted by will76
WOW  
I think there is no doubt we have more porn traffic now then we did 10 years ago. What was the top 10 porn sites producing hits wise 10 years ago? Look at what the top 10 porn sites are doing now with hits. Hell I wouldn't be surprised if the top 10 porn sites now generate more hits a day then all of the porn sites did back in 2000.
I'll just do USA, don't want to skew the results with all of the shit country users who came on later.
# of internet users in 2000: 108,096,800
# of internet users in 2009: 259,561,000
So that many more users online now and you think there is less traffic going to porn sites now vs 2000? WOW. |
Sweet, we had an growth of the people on the Internet... isn't odd that we more than doubled in people but we didn't more than double in sales, anywhere online?
I'm happy that China and some other populated 3rd world Countries got online... but they aren't really a subject worth talking about.
What I saw years ago was 1000's of sites with a great deal more traffic than today, by astounding amounts more... sharing across the entire Industry - even paysites. Lots of people profiting from that global flow of traffic produced by a larger base of Affiliates.
Today what you have is a bottle neck, a few major sites bottled up the traffic and don't share it making it appear like they have some special amount when in reality it's just not spread out.
And then add in the loss of affiliates our global reach has shrunk.