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[QUOTE]Originally posted by icedemon
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"Affiliates used to bring in the majority of signups for me before these 3rd party billing companies built in a affiliate system for all the paysites. Now everybody and their brother has a affiliate system. The affiliate market is oversaturated now (in my opinion)
My paysites bring in the majority of signups from search engines, advertising and plain old link trading with other sites. The people I know with paysites do the same thing."
there are some big webmasters here that don't use the affiliate model at all.
and do pretty good.
there is a law of diminishing returns.
if you can only creat so much original content, why water it down with affiliates saturating the market?
it's like putting a carrot on a stick in front of the donkey---you payout 50% to affiliates who saturate the market with your best work, which forces you to go out and pay retail creating new content.
so you end up with maybe 20-25% net net.
original content is king. if you have that, you don't need affiliates.
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