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Originally Posted by clickhappy
What tons of affiliates? You dont notice that there are a LOT less webmasters now than there were 10 years ago?
Lots and lots and lots of people saw the writing on the wall and left.
Uh, where? I remember a program owner coming in here looking for webmasters who can send 100 signups a day like they got in the older days.
No one stepped forward, no one can do that anymore.
Why did ARS close? They were on top of the world, Marc De was posting his beautiful exotic cars, one after another after another. Hell ARS was offering health insurance. Where thats now?
Wheres AllPetite? CuteGirlfriend? Fantastic Facials? Pink Chocolate? Wheres TopBucks with their huge list of sites?
Very very successful people who left. If that's not a tailspin I don't know what is.
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There are still monster whale affiliates. Just because they don't want to work with a bunch of whiny webmasters on GFY begging for the traffic doesn't mean they don't exist.
There are still affiliates out there. Porn Nerd says he just added over a 100 in a month. Doesn't sound like he is having a tough time finding them.
Most of those sites you mention don't stand out as brands at all and the content was the same stuff you could find anywhere else. I am not surprised at all they are gone. None of those programs with a bazillion sites focused on brand or user experience. They just kept pumping out cookie cutter sites with zero personality but lots of hollow hype chasing the next big niche and throwing big ridiculous parties to try and find more webmasters.
You have zero clue why ARS and all the old school programs failed and just assume it had to do with tubes. I think their failure had more to do with an unsustainable business model that was focused on an unprofitable approach to traffic through webmasters. They used to "take from Peter to pay Paul" and that is always going to have an issue if there are not enough new Paul's to pay Peter. That and a lack of attention to user experience was a quicker path to their demise I know for a fact.