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Originally Posted by WEG Cory
Dave,
The problem is that most of the people on this board, or any board for the matter, have little idea of the type of revenue the AVS makes today. I can think of two AVS programs that bring in more revenue than most every major program does.
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I would imagine this is due the large amount of rebills still recurring from the years and years when sales were 1000+ to 10,000+ a day.
As for AVS/AEN making a comeback due to new govt regulations, there are other ways than using an AVS and Im not even sure that using an AVS still verifies age. Visa did make them lose all text that says they verify age.
AVS was a good system years ago, I made a shitload of money off it, but now many of the benefit are gone:
-avs provides little traffic but you still have to pay for the bandwidth costs of other avs members visiting your site. Not only that but most AVS still use an outdated form of password protection meaning that you have to constantly watch your sites for being exposed to passwords that leak out.
-the concerns of putting all your eggs in one basket, you may control the avs site but we have seen quite a few avs program change their minds about how they run their program and many people lost out because of this
-most avs/aen program dont have anywhere near the tools that revshare/pps programs have. Take my program for example, new content shot each week exclusively. You have your own content for avs and lets not forget about how 2257 will end up.
-new webmasters are going to be better off by learning how to generate their own traffic through se,tgps, blogs, linklists, buying spots, submitting and promoting multiple programs than by working with avs.