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Originally Posted by Paul Markham
Quoted again for the truth.
Back in 05 we were make 12 grand off one single client a month. It was in a part of porn that didn't think giving the product away was the best way to sell it.
The flaw in online porn was in the first sentence. People should of never made serious money promoting sites. You don't need to work very hard to get men to look at porn, the trick is getting enough of them so one buys anything. Especially when there's more free stuff than stuff to be bought. It used to take 50 people to look at a site to buy, now people have orgasms if they convert 1-500. And that takes 5,000 to look at their free samples.
Good bump for a thread that deserves to be bumped every year. How many of the people telling us they are doing fine are still doing as fine? As they were a year ago.
Online porn will never die, it will be a means to get 1-10,000 to buy a dating or web cam membership.  |
It isn't the affiliate that killed online porn it is the site owner giving away too much of their content to the affiliate. I remember back when I started most companies only offered a very small amount of affiliate content and if you used it too much link sites and TGPs wouldn't list you. So surfers saw the same stuff everywhere and got the hint: they were going to have to pay to see more. Then companies started offering zip downloads of their content and FHG's with a ton of their content on it. Suddenly there was more of their stuff out there for free.
It used to be that affiliates had to buy most of their own content and pay for their own hosting etc. These days that is just not the case. Now companies give away a ton of affiliate content, free hosting, FHG's galore etc. It is just too much.
Affiliates didn't kill the industry. Affiliates made a lot of people very rich. However, giving affiliates infinite free content certainly didn't help things.