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Originally Posted by Struggle4Bucks
1. I don't get this. If a site converts then who cares if it's ccbill, epoch or another biller-based affiliate program. How can Epoch-sites be irrelevant??? It's about what converts and not how many sites are in a biller-based affiliate-program! Could it be that you actually trying to say that your amount of traffic is irrelevant and that it is a "reaching minimum pay out" problem? What else would make epoch-sites irrelevant? Epoch is Top Notch; constantely improving and now paying webmaster via paxum!
2. I don't work offline jobs. I'm doing this fulltime. 80 hours per week! I'm not getting rich here. But, I can make a humble living out of it with only 6000 daily visitors to my site and are able to invest slowly in shooting new content for two new sites (which is fucking expensive.) So... that means that I am growing instead of declining and having to look out for a offline job!
3. Good for you 
4. Ok that's nice... but if ccbill is not the problem and conversions are 10 times worse then last month, then what could be the problem? I'm selling 20% more then last month so no way that it can be explained with people not paying for porn anymore.
These are the posted numbers of september of one of my affiliates:
Affiliate programs
Bondage Bank nats 1:234
Struggle 4 Bucks epoch 1:475
Kind Cash epoch 1:1297
Queen Snake epoch 1:1656
Fetish Wealth nats 1:4388
NBB Cash ccbill 1:3602
DDF Cash nats 1:2690
Fuck You Cash nats 1:1725
Kinkster Cash nats 1:3595
Kinky Dollars nats 1:14091
Epoch and Nats-sites in the top 5! Where are the ccbill-sites?
Good luck to you anyway! |
how do you mean who cares? I do, as tons of affiliates. If I have 40 blogs network , I want to collect money as fast as possible. this means I don't want to spread revenue on dozen sponsors (nats, mpa 3 ,etc..) and always have some "virtual" money. this was biggest mistake and once I've dropped most of sponsors that are taking care about payments on their own, revenue became stable. So me, and many affiliates are going to choose to promote sites that will send them money as fast as possible. As far as I see, epoch have only 4...yeah four, femdom sites to promote. On my personal list of sponsors, I have more then 150 sites from ccbill suitable for my blogs. Since logic is to diversify and offer variety of sites, only logical conclusion is to choose ccbill if I want to see my money fast. Otherwise, every sponsor have own payment rules, methods...fuck that,maybe bigger affiliates can handle that shit but I can't . I am also promoting Verotel but they are fucked up and now most of sites dropped them and I need to go through my network and delete those sites and I am also promoting Inet cash sites because there is plenty of femdom sponsors.
Also, I don't want to give any special exposure to any sponsor because often ,sponsors or sites go down. And then what? I need to take down complete sites filled with their content? Also, I saw so many times that sites are converting good in the beginning and then suddenly stop once they are available all over.
Sure, conversions were much better when I was running pay sites compared to affiliate stats, but by using Nifty Stats I can compare any period during last 7 years (from time when I stepped up in this business) and there were bad periods but somehow at the end, conversions are more or less, the same.
If guy above from blue pixels profits confirmed what I've said for this month and together with other webmasters (affiliates and site owners) that means that something is wrong here and it is not about CC company. I won't tell what people I am talking about since I don't have authorization to give info about their business.
In this moment I am at 1:10021 which is total disaster and started being like that from the beginning of this month (few days before, I think).There is no chance that people decided to lost interest in niche precisely on october 2013 so I am trying here to hear opinions what is going on.
October 2012 - 1:1195
October 2011 - 1:1092
October 2010 - 1:995
October 2009 - 1:1138
October 2008 - 1:1411
October 2007 - 1:1439
Yes I know that I can get better conversions from my traffic if I redirect to specific sites ( I have precise list of sites converting 1:400 and other converting 1:2200 but I've explained how I am maintaining stability through diversification through years ). Now, going 1:10k is crazy and fucked up shit completely.