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Originally Posted by Jel
Agreed, but it's not as huge as you might think. Instead of looking at what you're losing, look at what you're gaining, by using the sponsors content. The outcome is *exactly* the same whichever way you look at it, except you don't feel hard done by, because there's nothing to feel hard done by about 
As for the losing 40% - well, you gained 60% because without that content, you'd have no page/site/video/whatever to show the surfer, submit your gallery, rank your blog, whatever... |
I guess that used to be true. I admit I used to monetize those sites a bit using other banners and things like mobile redirects as well. So it goes both ways. But truth be told I would never have used these other monetization methods had the paysites converted better and an improvement in my numbers of 20-40% would have made a huge difference with that. The main purpose of most affiliate sites was always to sell paysite memberships. Affiliates started turning to other things more when the numbers went south in order to survive.
On new sites I've moved away from most sponsor content (and most porn content) completely and am focusing on other types of sites with a different draw. In my mind they can get that anywhere and the tubes offer the full scenes so why should the surfer check out my sites if that's mainly what I offer? I wish it were different.