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Originally Posted by dig420
I'm one of those guys running megapaysites with 200+ feeds, and it's been my experience lately that the best way to go is to find a specific niche and make damn sure you have enough content WITHIN that niche to satisfy the surfer. A surfer who signs up for an interracial site doesn't give a shit how many voyeur bathroom feeds you have.
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You're totally right about that! A customer looking for a specific niche expects to see a lot of content regarding that niche in the site. However, if you provide a lot of content for that specific niche, it doesn't hurt to have additional unrelated content also. A guy with a fetish for mature women can have interest in other niches also. By providing that additional content, you increase the chances of appealing to the customer's other desires and increase retention.
I think that in the end it comes down to the website operator's strategy. If they are trying to build a loyal customer following, then they will establish a personalized niche site with ONLY that content and offer tons of it(mostly exclusive). If they are trying to retain members but grow quickly, they will offer a large amount of that niche specific content, but also provide other unrelated content(semi-exlusive). Then there are those that offer only a few plugins regarding that niche, add tons of misc. content, throw up a tour and then drive loads of traffic to it hoping that a certain percentage of the customers will stay.
I believe that the exclusive sites retain much better, but they also incur much higher operational costs due to content production. I believe the easiest strategy is what I called the semi-exclusive method.