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Old 04-25-2018, 10:56 PM  
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Originally Posted by Paul Markham View Post
So why is the industry shrinking in the terms of affiliates?
They were forced to adapt and change, they did not. Google penalized them for not learning how to adapt and continuing oldschool techniques instead of learning how to properly manage a business and invest into new ways to offer the produce they provide. Affiliate sites could always convert, it's that they lost their form of getting traffic, which was mainly capitalizing on using the paysites/models brand in Google. When that could no longer work, sales decreased. Which caused them to spend less, making them spiral even faster. Very similar reason why a lot of paysite owners died off. There are several ways to deal with a declining business and those who do not have the experience or business management skills generally get anxiety/afraid and spend less vs what they should be doing, spending more and learning how things have changed and what they can do.

Anyway it was their traffic that disappeared. Reason: Google. Link exchanges could no longer work either because their trade partners also depended on search engine traffic.

Affiliates killed themselves off by not adapting. With all the traffic TGPs had, freeones had, etc etc - they could have became the next pornhub. They did not.

It allowed tubes to walk in and crush them. I dont think i saw a single tgp change until they were frantically wondering what the hell to do because they've lost the majority of their traffic/sales

TGPs offered sample videos and the best pics from every set, now its tubes that do.

We consider tubes an affiliate, so if you do as well, I dont believe it has shrunk that much, there just aren't as many because they have more traffic per property.

What does affiliates no longer being able to receive traffic to fuel their blogs/tgps and other stupid sites have to do with how paysites sell? Paysites can still use pornhub/tubes which has as much traffic as affiliates. We have to pay for adspace, yes. But we also reach far more people in one space. Videos also get user uploaded and brand it that way, without having to pay.

Companies are also working together to receive more traffic/sales. This is something you did not see before, as an industry matures, you see change, it went from small fish feeding big fish, now its big fish feeding big fish and no need for small fish. It costs more to get in and you also make more. Like all maturing industries. Might seem dead when you were deeply involved with the people on the lower spectrum of things, affiliate died off, small paysites died off so I understand why it may appear that way but it's simply not the way it is. Businesses require more work and managing people with actual degrees, who have little adult experience. Because they are cheaper and because the task of ad management is done better by somebody who understands numbers, critical thinking, task efficiency, data reports, etc. - They do not have the time to talk on the boards, so the boards are empty with those who were not able to find roles
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