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Originally Posted by Vjo
Paul, everybody is an affiliate of something incl most of the biggest pay ops. I agree on some of your points except the whole anti affil thing.
Surely you are an affil of something. Affiliate marketing is like social networking. We damn near all are affilliates and some also wear many other hats.
Most affils follow the terms of the prog so the affil does nothing but good for the payop.
Yes if there were no affils there would be waaay less content given free. Woulda-coulda-shoulda.. affils are here so your arguments are all hypothetical.  |
Getting men to look at porn is a no brainer. It's about as easy as getting them to turn their heads when an attractive woman walks past them. Getting men to buy porn is pretty easy as well. Prior to the days sponsors and affiliates saturated the Internet with free porn, it's very likely 1%-2% of US & UK men bought porn. Every month. The distribution and sales figures of any porn product show this.
Now with free porn the % figure isn't even 0.1%
Creating the barrier of free porn, devastated sales. It made people like Robbie a multi millionaire and created these "online porn marketing experts.
The affiliate system was the biggest mistake online porn ever made. Online porn spent a lot of money building a reason for people not to buy porn. It made the affiliate the most important pert of the business.
It even created the myth that traffic was king. In porn it's not, getting traffic to porn is something anyone can do.
This is all that's needed to get people to a porn site.
Astral Blue
Retro porn I shot in the UK during the 80 and 90s.
Having people putting out adverts, directions to a paysite is all thats required. Getting guys to do it in house is fine. Giving affiliate 5% and just banners is fine.
Once you start going down this route.
http://gallery.teenpinkvideos.com/teens/1010/2/ where you need 1,000 (approx) views to get a sale.
You end up here.
http://gals.dancingbear.com/hun/db7850-1/ where you need 2,000 (approx) views to get a sale.
Then here.
http://gals.dancingbear.com/hun/db7850-1/ where you need 5,000 (approx) views to get a sale.
And the cost of this free porn is taken out of the product being sold. Which results in less people buying.
And me telling you 10 years after I started to tell you it was a fucked up system. Saying;
I TOLD YOU SO.
Traffic isn't King. Content is. Because it's the content, gallery, tube in a banner that gets a click to a paysite. It's the content on the tour that gets a sale and it's the content in the members area that keeps buyers buying.
If you need 1,000 people to look at porn to get a sale, you're doing something seriously wrong.
But you guys no so much more than me. Let's face it, you knew how to fuck up online porn.
Now tell me without traffic a site doesn't get a sale.
Even with traffic, now it's pretty hard and getting harder to get a sale.