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Old 04-07-2012, 12:08 AM  
Paul Markham
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Originally Posted by anexsia View Post
Huh? We're talking about mobile redirects here...traffic buyers were buying "premium" traffic at around $3 per 1000 uniques, between Juicy Ads and Plugrush they are now buying mobile visitors as high as $11 per 1,000...if anything some traffic can be worth MORE now.
It makes no difference where the traffic comes from. It's a commodity like everything else. I never sold exclusive for $300 because a magazine would pay $1,000 non exclusive. Content is a commodity. Market conditions apply to the price of a commodity. It will go up or down depending on many factors. see my post for those factors and add supply and demand. The more who jump on this market, possibly the less a click will be worth. There is only one thing that's guaranteed in business.

Nothing it guaranteed.

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Originally Posted by anexsia View Post
Not only that but it's a gamble...for all I know, someone could be buying my mobile traffic and making $50+ per 1,000 and only paying me $7-11 per 1,000...but I don't have the time to optimize my mobile traffic right now so I would rather get guaranteed money in the bank for it right now.
Then instead of selling the traffic do what the guy you're selling it is doing. you want guaranteed money in your bank? Try another line of work.

A buyer pays what he can afford to and make a profit selling it on. Your price and mine are justified by the market.
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