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Originally Posted by Relentless
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.
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I tend to agree, and to add that number of GFY posts it is normally the inverse of traffic they can generate.
As a (cam) program I can tell that of those affiliates who signed up from GFY (and some I got from there it was rather good, I mean more than $1k/week), nearly no one got high post counts, or posts at all, or account at all: busy guys googleing for "alternative to [chaturbate/whatever]" or so, lands on GFY without having or wishing to open a GFY account, finds my signature in post replies, signup and sends tonds of joins.
On the contrary, nearly no one who posts a lot (esp. complaints about my program) ever signed up or tested my program (and did not answered to question "and what's your affiliate account, if ever asked), so I assume they really sent traffic to no one they talk bad about. Or if signed up, sent 10 hits a year max anyway.
Finally, about all those saying that there are less and less affiliates every year - really, for new programs that starts with zero affiliates, there can be a growth. I have more active affiliates on tubecamgirl now than a year ago, and a year ago I had more than 2 years ago (2012 is when I opened the program). However I lost lots of affiliates in chatgf which was around from 2010 and mostly targeted pay site member areas. Think at crakrevenue I bet everyone agrees they had growth of affiliates each of past year, right? It all matters to open new affiliate programs, more up-to-date, time to time. And not to cry on old affiliate programs dieing, or wrong new ones no one cares at.