Mainstream vs Adult. An Observation.

i think anyone in their right mind would read this board and think every single person in adult is a total fucking retard.

If you are in mainstream, what have YOU noticed?

I find mainstream marketing more shady in the techniques that affiliate programs do. Adult, it seems to be the affiliate that's doing shady techniques to get the sale.

WG

Yupers all off the above and then some. Some of the stuff they come up with makes me wander off scratching my head in amazement at times.

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i think anyone in their right mind would read this board and think every single person in adult is a total fucking retard.

I absolutely hate domain squatters. They just park the domain name then sell it for ridiculous prices. Ughh!!

more than 50% of mainstream so called webmasters are teenagers

Where did you pull that number from?

Where did you pull that number from?

might be inaccurate, but I doubt it

got the number from polls on the largest mainstream webmaster board (dp)

I think the number was higher than 50%, so I put 50% down to be conservative

you know that like 78 % of all statistics are made up right :P

http://affiliate-program.amazon.com/...ssoc_join_main




4%

of a 10 dollar book.


i know this is a terrible assumption of what mainstream is, but how be damned if i'm giving up the good markets that i'm working in so everyone can try to run into them.

and yes, what bare says is true true true. its even worse on the know it all level with a lot of these so called "experts"

i don't post on any mainstream boards, but i read several religiously.

my is your adult experience is tens times as valuable and you should not listen to any of these kooks who say they are a seo genius this or an AM Guru that. Mold your own path and fuck them all.

Blah blah blah.

i think anyone in their right mind would read this board and think every single person in adult is a total fucking retard.

well, I believe those numbers are in the range of being a true estimation

that is how sampling works, you get an idea of an overall percentage even though you only sample in a small area (of course you are correct in the thought that the percentage could be inaccurate)

I went and looked up the polls to get exact numbers...

webmasters that responded to mainstream board poll:

18 and under - 33.14%
19 to 21 - 18.34%
22 to 25 - 21.3%
26 to 35 - 14.2%
36 and up - 7.1%

take it for what it's worth

And it's kinda sad - even if you consider the gfy demographics, people in adult seem a lot smarter than their mainstream counterparts. Percentage of dumbasses there is staggering.

To continue..

The ages really do show on mainstream. Either that, or they are some of the least intelligent, no money having people I've come across in the online business at times.

People selling off domains for $5. Decent designed sites for $25. Clone and resell them over and over for what?!!?!?? $5-10 profit?!?!??

People who can't recognize good SEO domains, type in or otherwise when it's right there in your google, or overture results. Idiots who can't understand a membership site, and how it's golden compared to some other niches.

I mean, I could go on, and on. But what I am getting at is the collective cluelesssness, and no money having know-it-alls.

I don't understand why you seem to be complaining about this. Why aren't you in there buying this shit up if they're giving it away?

Or tell me where they're selling this shit so cheap so I can buy some.

I don't understand why you seem to be complaining about this. Why aren't you in there buying this shit up if they're giving it away?

Or tell me where they're selling this shit so cheap so I can buy some.

one point I see is that it is a huge nickel-and-dime world for a large part.... people that work hours a day to make 35 cents on adsense

6. A large chunk of mainstream hang on every word of shoebitch as if he is all knowing.

Guess where the Shoe came from?

He didn't just spring up in mainstream and become and overnight hit.

To hear him tell it. Ring tones.

Nope - sometimes he admits to something else

Good post and lot's to learn here so I think I'll pitch in and answer too. I'm a mainstream site/community owner with well over 160k+ "active" members. My first community (a niche gaming site) started 4 years ago and grew to 110+ members. The second (outdoor sites) was more of a fun project that grew, but I was never to too serious about tell now. It just broke the 50k member and 200k uniques a month so it's time to get serious.

1. Mainstream has 100 times as many working for beer money that adult.

True. Most have never made porn "type" money to get serious.

2. Mainstream 'webmasters' are willing to sell off their sites at ridiculously low prices. Clone, rename, and do it again for $25

I have seen many great potential sites, sites, and concepts abandoned.

3. Mainstream people, the vast majority, do not seem to have a fucking clue what a domain, or website are worth.

True. But then there are a small few who think they are the next facebook.

4. Few mainstream people work online as their full time job.

True, very true. They don't know how to make money.

5. There are just as many retards asshats in mainstream, but the difference is their board rule with an iron fist.

It is usually because they are just an average person in the real world and got lucky with a site.

6. A large chunk of mainstream hang on every word of shoebitch as if he is all knowing.

?????

7. There are just as many ass eaters, and supposed online celebrities in mainstream as the Lars of adult.

Most are self imposed.

8. Fraud, rips offs, scams are even more ridiculous, and frequent on mainstream. Yes, that is really sad.

A fool and his money are soon parted. Lot's of fools in mainstream.

9. People in mainstream do not seem to be able to know how to gauge traffic, SE index, or value of listings.

A majority can't even figure out how to use an admin panel let alone marketing. To be honest, many don't need the traffic or knowledge. I know a guy that owns a huge outdoor site and when I visiting I watched him (20x) type his domain name in Google to get to his site.

10. A lot of mainstream do not seem to have a fucking clue about domains, SEO, or how type in's work. Nor what is truly considered traffic, or what 'conversions' mean w/o shady tactics.

Yes. I have said this before many times on here and will say it again. If you make between $1000k-$5000k a month in porn you can make 10x that in a "niche" mainstream.