Originally Posted by Paul Markham

Then good luck to him.


Let's look at why it's better to do traffic generation in house.

Opening a Tube and putting your own content at the top and making sure it's the most frequently seen is good. Then adding others content to be an affiliates. The site can also strike up relationships with the mega Tubes if required. Can be carried through to TGP sites as well.

Blogs, OK if English is a second language it's tough. Otherwise all the tips and articles are online to teach people how to write blogs.

SEO. This is a skill to operate at the highest level, a lot is getting linked to other sites of the right kind. Getting traffic and making sure it doesn't return to the SE, seems to be important. This is IMO the highest skill of affiliates and if good at it, expensive to hire.

Adwords. When you get all the join money, it's better than having to buy with half the money. Also makes it more expensive for affiliates to compete.

The site can be built and run 100% to suit the owner, no worries with affiliates telling you what to do and what not to do.

Running an inhouse traffic program means there's a need to create content for traffic generation. But it's yours to keep and not 100s of affiliates to share.

The site owner doesn't give out 30%-35 of his turn over to affiliates, using Madalton's figures here. I can verify it and so will many others.

Times are tight, the glory days are gone. It just sometimes makes sense.

The fact that the sites are open and the program has closed is all the proof you need it can be done. That so many are answering the thread tells you it's having an effect. The tone of reply tells you the effect it's having.