Thanks for the reply rather than the abuse.
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Originally Posted by Colmike7
Here are some random reasons why internet porn doesn't seem to be selling as much as it used to:
1) When internet porn started, that's when content creation for the internet started too, which meant porn was new to everyone that saw it at the start and took a while for things to get oversaturated and higher quality to make the older porn seem worthless to buy.
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Not true. When the Internet started was in the 50s.
The history of the Internet began with the development of computers in the 1950s. Until the introduction of
Digital Cameras it was mostly scans off pages from magazines or slides. Which were mostly produced by professionals like me. The first affordable ones were around 1998 if my memory serves me right. There were ones before, but very expensive. Olympus and Nikon were early in this race.
It wasn't till then that online shooters could afford a digital camera.
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2) Much more webmasters are promoting the same thing since more people have computers and are in need of making a few extra bucks these days and hosting is super cheap compared to the 90s (Affiliate marketing got me out of poverty)
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Agreed. We have 10,000s of affiliates between the creators/publishers and customers. Do they make the same money the offline retail made? I very much doubt it. Never met an affiliate worth what some retail pornographers are worth. They were not people living in the Philippines. ;)
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3) Blackhat and cookie stuffing cheaters
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Online has been a boom for all the cheaters, scammers, freeloaders, pirates, etc.
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4) Some 'webmasters' just suck and like to complain about it even if they've never made money in the past either.. 
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It can still make them some money. They have 0 investment, 0 to lose, yet moan. Go figure.
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5) Internet connection speed is much better than before so promoting only image FHGs doesn't quite cut it anymore by itself..
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Yes the speed online and the competition to give porn away has slashed online income. Speed was a silver line, on base metal for most.
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6) There's a lot more to do on the internet nowaday than just research and jerk off like it used to be...
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True, once the "free" is taken out of the Internet. It will become what it should be. Culture needs to change, people who think "If it's online it should be free." Are dinosaurs. The Internet is business. We can entertain to get traffic to sell advertising. But we can't keep giving the product away for free. Someone somewhere has to pay. Which is why today offline retail mainstream is rushing to get online. I just ordered a $800 data storage unit. Can't frigging pirate that or give it away.
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The point is if you have good content and promote it well with good selling text, minimal leaks on the page, frequent members area updates, great landing page with clear info of what the surfer is getting, and know how to promote your niche, then you can make good money. The amount of money that people spend on porn is determined by how good you are at selling.. ;)
I don't think tubes are the problem..
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True. But it comes down to the producer of the product to create something that will convert and retain traffic. In porn that's for the elite group of sites. Most can\t afford it and it's cheaper to spend more on traffic and less on the product in some sphere of the Internet.
For porn Tubes are the problem along with piracy. If a shooter spends the money to fly to Bali with the top crew and talent to create the greatest porn. Online can't afford it. DVDs did many times. Digital Playground and a few others, could never support their production on Internet sales alone.
1 thing you got wrong, another we disagree on, the rest.
