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Originally Posted by ruff
Bulk email affiliate spam suggests garbage. The affiliate promo materials I'm receiving from programs I promote have a decent quality to them. Not template bland but well thought out. There is lot of emphasis on photo FHG's that would suggest TGP sites or something similar are thriving. I operate one that generates 17 - 20K uniques a day. There are also plenty of video FHG's and hybrids. The one thing I've noticed is some programs have pulled their embedded videos. I think there has been a serious shaking out that is still going on, but the small dedicated webmaster still has plenty of opportunity to compete against the big boys.
The trick to using GFY posts as a metric is to do the exact opposite of what 99% of the posters suggest. Most haven't got a clue, they are marginally in the business, they have a free site somewhere so they are in the club. I've been reading for years that the TGP site is dead, so I built one successfully. Ask some of the other TGP owners here, including some that sold out and started again. You want a tube site, build one. Fuck what anyone else says. I'm surprised so many take as gospel whatever any anonymous poster that has jacked his/her post count up into the thousands says. I guess a high post count infers porn cred. (not to insult high post count webmasters that actually contribute something)
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Perfect example of my earlier point. You are not an ordinary affiliate ;)
The industry has evolved into three groups:
Business owners and service providers (many who used to be affiliates) making a good living.
A tiny handful of hobbyists or massive traffic webmasters and profitable free site owners (the only real affiliates left) making a good living.
Whiners, conspiracy theorists and trolls (many who used to be affiliates) making nothing but noise.
Which group someone is in is mostly a matter of their own choices, based almost entirely on where each chooses to focus time and energy. To a very large degree this is an effort based business not an aptitude based business. I don't think most people are lazy. I do think they are prone to distractions. Shaving, tubes, .xxx, and many other topics are distractions more than anything else.