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Originally Posted by MisterPeabody
I was thinking about your posts and thought, 'I bet the CTR for paysites was around 10% only 5-7 years ago..." LOL I have little long-term perspective because I've only been doing this during the "struggling years". If I were around when all you had to do was throw up some pics and make a killing I'm sure my attitude would be differant.
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Oh yeah it was crazy fifteen years years ago when I first started. I'm sure you heard many stories so I won't share that one. But it wasn't too bad five years ago either. Before I wouldn't share this much for fear that I would hurt my own income but now I'm much less concerned as the method is dead.
On the very day when the Lehman brothers went bankrupt in September 2008 I signed up to promote a single niche paysite. On a whim I decided to put up just a couple links on the old Yahoo Groups in a few selected groups. I'll be damned if within 15 minutes of putting up a link (no spam involved here at all, mind you.) I had a sales email notification. I thought holy shit this is just a fluke, right? Then another one came. And another. By the end of the day there was over 15 sales from just those few links. Meanwhile I remember watching all hell break lose on TV about the U.S. financial markets melting down and the possibility of bank runs.
Eagerly I checked my stats and those 15 sales were legit and they came on less than 1000 hits.
I went on to make thousands every month from that one site. It was the most success from a single paysite ratiowise I had ever had since 1999. I promoted it as hard as I could and found ways to drive traffic despite there being almost no sponsor content or promo banners. I found the program's stats at one point and I saw I was sending them around at least 50% of their traffic. I considered starting up my own paysite to rival them since clearly I could do it but in the end I figured that the market was on the decline and the long term viability wasn't there. I was right too because sadly the performance of the site tapered off almost into nothingness. Now it just converts at about what the average site used to five years ago. It's good for the times but not knock your socks off good as it once was.
This kind of thing made it worth while. I would kill to find a site which converts like that again. I think any affiliate would. But the problem is they just aren't around or if they are they are very well hidden.
You see now the customers expect it for free. The file lockers have entire site rips. The tubes are full of full scenes. Some of the sponsors now even upload a lot of their own content in desperation.
That site by the way? I bet I sent more sales to it in a single day than any tube has ever sent them. Or probably more than all tubes combined have sent them on a single day I'm pretty sure. They are still around and they are very small. The rebills were great too. On average 3-4 months. > $30 a month price. Oh yeah and their content wasn't even exclusive.
If you hit things just right, you could make a lot fairly easily. Even that recently.