jayeff

You are implying that revshare automatically means a better bottom line, when in fact many new site owners protect themselves with revshare without having a clue whether their sites will retain. I have also suspected a few programs over the last couple of years of effectively reducing their payouts by offering revshare payouts on sites designed to work according to PPS principles: in other words sites the owners know will not retain because they are not intended to.

I approach both payout methods with equal caution, but always hoping I can find good revshare programs. The first reason is that contrary to what most of us appear to think, surfers are a mix of ordinary people, no more stupid than the population (of which we are part) at large. Which means that a good revshare program will inevitably be more honest with its members and come a lot closer to providing what they are looking for.

That gives me a lot more confidence and helps me feel better about selling the sites concerned. It gives me at least the possibility that having satisfied someone once, he just might come back to me when he wants something new. More importantly I have generally found the operators of good revshare programs to be a lot, lot better and easier to work with and I suspect (or at least hope) that since they are honest with their customers, a higher proportion are also honest with their affiliates.

Last but of course not least, any recurring site which retains for 3+ months on average is likely to produce more income for me than the majority of PPS programs. Unfortunately, there just aren't enough of them...