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Originally Posted by Paul Markham
Traffic isn't a problem. The problem is coming up with something addictive enough to keep people coming back and staying put. Think of it in terms of a lake and a river.
Tubes go from streams, with little traffic which never stops to Oceans which are the first port of call when someone feels horny. If in 1995 someone was giving away enough porn to satisfy the urge. Sales would have sucked. We didn't so sales were great.
Surfers don't want to have to close a pop-up after watching porn. Because they have no intention of buying from it. I advertised in magazines and the CTR 1-1,000 approx. This was in the days when people expected to pay for porn. If you fuck with surfers, do you expect them to buy more?
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Times have changed Paul. I am talking about quality traffic here. High CTR. I have been in the traffic realm for over 10 years. Viral successful sites don't need many ads. They can get away with the ad income. Like efukt for example. One post makes the owner a couple grand from sales depending on the sponsor. Talk about amazing viral traffic/bookmarkers. Buying quality traffic has tripled because site owners know how hard it is to come by.
Put it this way, I can count on one hand how many tubes have enough traffic that is worth submitting too. I have tested it all. The rest is trash. Thats not alarming to you? SALES are pretty much dead for most because unless you bought out the competition like mindgeek did, you need to hope and pray your content is something no ones seen or your marketing is stellar. This does NOT include SEO. SEO we know is gold but impossible to rely on. Plenty of good content out there BUT only works if you have the organic traffic.
Quality traffic is very hard to come by now a days that is not organic/seo. You can get crap traffic from brokers all day long but it wont grow your site in any way. No idea why people use brokers unless they are buying to make money with ads/webcams/dating only. What is the point of growing your sites traffic with no income coming in and hoping you make sales? I have plenty friends who tried to rely only on sales for 1 year and they came to reality that they cant make any money that way anymore. These guys have over 200k uniques a day and growing.
Its just different practices. I don't have any problem with clicking on a popunder to close it. The problems I have are the loud obnoxious ads of chicks moaning loud or ads that I cant seem to close once I hit Exit. My point is, everyones practices are different but quality traffic is STILL king and there is not much of it unless your site has viral success.