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Originally posted by Just J
Is this end of pay niche sites ?
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No its just the end of niche paysites with no content in them.
A few years ago every major program started rolling out all these "niche sites" which were basically niche tours that went to the same members area as all their other sites.
Obviously the retention on them sucked, but you could make money on them with the right combination of pre-checked cross sells and upsells in the members areas, plus now you had an email address to spam the hell out of.
With Visa's new 1% rules and the "sexually explicit brown wrapper" can-spam rules that business model is dead, and people are closing sites that don't have the content inside to retain members.