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Originally Posted by Struggle4Bucks
Yeah well... i'm not really on the tubes... and the conversion-rates in my sig are reality...
Still... where are the affiliates??? A lot of them are clueless... sorry to say...
They only promote big and very known programs and continue to wine about their 1:10000 conversions... while they COULD try something new and less saturated...
On all their pages i see the same old shit everyone knows by now...
Really really clueless....
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I used to promote almost exclusively fetish programs like yours. I did very well. In the last three years it's hard to justify the time. Conversions are worse. CTR is worse. It's harder for affiliates to get organic traffic. That all adds up to around 1/3 the income of before from the raw hits to my site to the surfer signing up on your site. Not to mention the attitude in the industry is increasingly anti-affiliate (just read this topic for proof) so why should someone gamble with their future on pushing adult paysites?
We've all heard the claims before many times. But usually when we go to promote the site the end conversions are nowhere near what the owner claims. We do not get reimbursed for our time. But the owner profits because we all know the tracking is very shitty and no one has bothered to improve it because "Hey, fuck those affiliates! LOLz they are all losers who should work for me for $1.50 an hour."
If you really do that well then maybe consider an alternative system where you will pay per click or guarantee revenue to affiliates who send a certain volume? Something reasonable and not the usual crap. Maybe that might work? The truth is if there are other things to promote and getting good tier 1 organic traffic is harder why should someone take the risk of sending it to "Yet another paysite which claims 1:300 conversions"?
Affiliates aren't leaving the industry for no reason. They are going because the money isn't there for them.