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Old 03-05-2012, 01:24 AM  
Paul Markham
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Originally Posted by LouiseLloyd View Post
I think allowing access to a members area for affiliates who have already sent some sales is vital, it will allow us to grab and create some custom promo content that hasn't already saturated the free sites, it also gives an affiliate an idea of the product they are promoting, some members areas are just dreadful and offer nothing, well nothing you couldn't spend a few seconds googling and getting for free (usually via a tube!), so a good members area with model interactivity is (usually) great for affiliates to see so they know where to focus their promo and watch the rebills add up.

Tube sites are a great method of promotion when done properly, using promo content and following the sponsors terms of promo, a tube site offers easy to navigate and view solutions that most surfers know and love, but I also agree with Paul, as an affiliate it really is unfair to see tube sites full of full length movies and practically a full members area for free then see a bunch of ads and popups relating to dating or cams, but hey tolerance has allowed the big tubes to get big and have most of the traffic, you forget that many webmasters will upload full length videos themselves to take advantage of some of the traffic.
Couple of points. Thanks for seeing the point I was trying to make. It flew over so many peoples heads. It has nothing to do with promoting the sponsor, it's about getting into a site, downloading a ton of full length videos to load to a tube. Which prime aim is to sell other sectors of porn.

Yes the easiest way to saturates content was always outside the members area, this applies to exclusive as well as non exclusive.

Yes some members areas are awful, great tour and crap members area. Many sites have the same or similar poor content that lacks any real porn power. Yet in an industry that worships driving traffic and relies on converting and retaining customers. It's no wonder the product wasn't thought of in the right way.

Tubes are great for giving away free porn, great for a few affiliates with less skills to create a sale, great for porn consumers, not bad for Dating, Cams and other sectors of porn and the slow death of the mainstream of porn. Recorded porn sellers.

IMO. Allowing affiliates into the members area to grab what they like to spread for free, in any form, just downgrades and saturates members area content even more.
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