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Originally Posted by signupdamnit
Paysites aren't dead. They are just a much tougher sell than they once were.
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Agree.
75% of my traffic is going to amateur hardcore sites and they still sell like cakes. The content is not widespread and is NOT on the tubes and on torrents as the sites are smallones. But to make some cash (I speak of a couple of 1000 $) you need to have lots of traffic. My sales in March 2010 were slightly better than in Feb 2011 (in March we had 3 extra days). And the last 2 weeks of March were terrible! I have also noticed there are days I sell only 30% of normal and on those days I always think to quit the biz but in the end I still have the same $ per month. And there are always days of hope: The 2 first days of April were just skyhigh in sales (in 2 day I had about 15% of my total sales of March 2011!).
I do also promote some big programs (about 25% of my traffic) and those are much tougher to sell. I am sending constant amounts of traffic but every month the sales are going down. These big ones their content is on all tubes and torrents and they suffer from piracy.
Conclusion: it is very tough but paysites are not dead yet. I can imagine for a newbie webmaster it is almost impossible to start now unless it is an additional income on top of your job. You have to search for small sites who're not over exposured and which are not on the tubes and on the torrents. If you target the traffic, you will make sales. When I see a newbie's site, he's promoting the big ones and in my opinion that is completely wrong! I see it for myself. 75% of my traffic to amateur hardcore websites brings in about 99% of my sales...