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Originally Posted by Pornopat
Why is everybody saying this is brilliant when it is kicking in an open door and something every person should know?
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Don't overestimate the aggregated thinking power of GFY.
Thing is, brilliant or not, it's neither new nor revolutionizing. However, it's NOT common practice (running text sites i.e.). So everyone here KNOWS text sites make more money. But no one dares start them again, because THEY WILL LOSE TRAFFIC. Or at least that's what they think.
Thing is, they don't realize that traffic doesn't always equal profits and having lower costs will help make their business more flexible. So everyone is waiting for the next guy to start a text site, so another one can follow suit, so they can follow suit eventually.
It was the same thing with thumb sites. First people were scared about the (then) huge hosting costs, until they realized the profits greatly outweighed the costs. Then more and more people started running thmb sites, then me and other site builders stopped growing text sites because it wasn't viable anymore, which in turn helped accelerate the process. What people never realized was that when I, and other builders, chose to focus on thumb sites, it wasn't because they made more money. It was because they were easier to grow and we only provided the traffic growing service to clients, not the sales service. The result, in public, was that everyone started thinking "hey, if the pros do it, then they must know something!" Again, not saying thumb sites don't make money, they do. But this whole industry followed the thumb site craze like sheep and many people today are struggling to make a buck because of it. And what's even worse, they don't have the brains or the cojones to break away from this downward leading spiral, because THEY'LL LOSE TRAFFIC.
