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Old 03-02-2002, 01:43 AM  
Paul Markham
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Hi Mikey
I do understand that you have to drive traffic to a site. That is where the magazines failed, well some did. they thought people would come if they built the site. BOING, They know that now so webmasters be warned.
Some of the traffic has to "Park" and some sites are not that good they would be well advised to spend a littlet less in driving traffic and a little more on improving the content.
You earn money from traffic, I earn money from content. We have to meet in the middle, if the internet is too become more profitable.
Look at what you are driving them to and ask yourself could we make it so more park?

Content is, or should be, "Jerk off" material. What it is not is, JUST a picture of a naked girl with her legs open or some one fucking her. It has to be a bit more. A pornographers job is to arouse the imagination. Most of the time it's this fantasy "this girl loves it (sex) so much, she would of satisfied me if I was there.
I heard this recently, Are you a chef, cook or butcher?
A chef makes you hungry.
A cook satisfies your hunger.
A butcher displays meat.
Could a site be improved to make more people stop ?
If someone just sells traffic they do not need it to stop, if they buy traffic they do not earn until it stops.
This is what conversion rates are about.

The reason why Internet pays 1/10 of what magazines pay. SIMPLE
Not enough traffic is parking at most sites. They cannot afford to pay more.
The webcam sets ups in Prague cost a lot more than a site full of images. Why do they do it? People stop being traffic.

We are looking at the same coin, but see different sides.
The site I sell content to need better traffic, the sites you sell traffic to need better content.
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