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Originally Posted by Matt 26z
I'd really prefer it if you would answer my question directly.
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I did answer your question directly. Scroll up and Read my reply again.[/quote]
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I fully understand your mindset in bending over and taking it if there are no options for equal pay, but you can't just write this stuff off entirely or they will take more and more.
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There are always options for equal or better pay, unless the pay is very good.
Lets use a simple example....
I write reviews on one of my review sites about a terrific site featuring Polish Midgets in Ninja Costumes. The site pays me 26 cents per click for the traffic my review sends to it. I also send traffic to another site about Midgets and it sends me 8 cents per click with the same source. Then I send traffic to a site about girls dressed like Ninja and I get 9 cents per click.
I push more traffic to the Polish Midgets in Ninja Costumes site by featuring it and the sales stay about the same for a while. Then I notice they dropped a bit over the most recent 100K uniques. I do not care if they dropped due to shaving, slow updates, weak content, piracy, oversaturation or any other factor. What I care about is the fact that the site is now paying me only 4 cents per click. So I push more to the other Midget and Ninja sites. I find out they have the same 8 cent and 9 cent payouts as before.
Here are my options:
1 - Keep sending traffic to Polish Midgets in Ninja Costumes at 4 cents a click
2 - Waste a day investigating why it is 4 cents a click
3 - Accept the other site's offer of 9 cents a click as the new high value and feature it instead.
4 - Invest serious time and money to determine exactly what happened so that I can decide if I want to open my own new Polish Midgets in Ninja Costumes, or see if a site about Polish Midgets in Knight and Princess Costumes would be even more profitable (with the Game of Thrones tie-ins that make some sense).
At no point in any of the above does 'did I get shaved' matter at all.
