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Originally Posted by Evil Chris
I'll agree back with you, but I think you're stating the obvious.
What seems to not be obvious is that we can and should be selling without saturating our traffic with so much free content. Everyone bitches about it, but who's doing anything about it?
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Giving away content to get traffic is fairly easy. So the game is leap frog where affiliates, sites and sponsors all try to leap frog each other to see who can get the most surfers consuming free content. And ratios drop further.
Except free content isn't free. It costs a lot of money to give away content. In house staff, affiliate payments, server costs, marketing to affiliates and surfers costs,
te cost in sales, etc.
Pimproll were the latest to jump up in the league of giving away content, now they seem to want to pay affiliates more to give it away. Their free content just got more expensive.
But I won't tell you of how good it used to be.