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Originally Posted by TopBucksTrixxxia
Traffic will always be king I think - getting more bang for your traffic is what we have to focus on. Having pretty designs & the best paysites/sponsors won't make you money if you don't have traffic - let's be realistic here.
Knocking TGPs as a traffic source is not reasonable - it is still one of the best places to get traffic and lots of it. It's where most of us (myself included) entered into the business either by submitting galleries or starting your own little TGP along with building free sites.
It's a different traffic channel and has to be understood and marketed to differently. Not sure cutting the supply to TGPs will solve anything - some are big enough to keep it trading within their own networks and they possess the SE savoir-faire to continue to keep their listings on search engines and keep their flow of new traffic. They can even afford their own designers to keep all the traffic - so you aren't really hurting them, you may actually be hurting yourselves - by not having enough traffic to feed your trades.
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very true. i didn't mean that traffic isn't king in that "we don't need traffic". that would be ridiculous. but the idea that "traffic is king" has seemed to translate to people that getting traffic by any means necessary, in our case - giving out as much free porn as possible - would result in more sales. while that's not a bad idea on the surface, i think that we're starting to see the actual effects it is having on the industry. conversion ratios are falling, we KNOW why they're falling, yet we haven't really attacked the issue head-on in bringing them back up.
as for TGP's, they are a good source of traffic, but I wonder what kind of traffic. now that we know what the business model results in, why do we continue to support TGP's as they stand. if TGP traffic/conversion trends were a stock trend, brokers would be selling it like mad.