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Originally Posted by CDSmith
Sorry Paul, I'm going to have to disagree. You can have the nicest content in the universe but without traffic that crown your king is wearing will be made of tin, not gold.
For me the answer is it depends on perspective. With massive traffic one can simply direct it to those who have the content (re: paysite owners with decent paysites) whereupon the guy with the traffic makes money, the guy with the content makes money because of it.
At the end of the day he with the most traffic always wins, assuming he knows what to do with it. Just ask Patrick or the guy who used to own worldsex, or AL4A for that matter, if it was traffic that's made them their millions or content? The answer is obviously both at least to some degree, but from their perspectives I'd guess that traffic is what spoke the loudest in their success.
and I've seen way too many shitty content paysites make a shit-ton of money in spite of it over the years, and the reason they made that much money was one thing and one thing only --- massive amounts of traffic being fired at them, usually from affiliates. Meanwhile I've seen many a lovely site with amazing content sit virtually idle.
Traffic Paul. Traffic. Without it nothing happens.
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So you send your traffic to the sites that perform the worse. Got yer. Most send it to where it converts the best.
At the end of the day, the decision of what makes a sale is down to the buyer. He will never pay for being traffic. Patrick charged high prices for his traffic, so only those with the best conversions and retentions could afford to buy his traffic.
Yes you need both, never ever used the dumb argument of no content makes no sales like the guys who say no traffic makes no sales. Maybe what you call shitty content the surfer thinks other wise. Pure economics shows that sites that don't convince a surfer to buy and stay a member, don't have the funds to pay affiliates the money to get their traffic.
Unless they send traffic to site the surfers don't like. Do you know affiliates who fire massive amounts of traffic at sites that don't convert or surfers don't like? you and I may not like, ultimately what you and I think means nothing. It's what people who pay money for it at the till think.
You can have the nicest
traffic in the universe but without it
converting well that crown your king is wearing will be made of tin, not gold.
Unless their are affiliates prepared to fire massive amounts of traffic at sites that don't convert or surfers don't like.
Had to be said twice to make it clear.