Originally Posted by gdog

My 2 cents on this is everyone wants to be in the porn business, everyone thinks they have an idea that will make a killing. So they launch this great site, the spend a ton of money with content, they payout ridiculously high payouts to webmasters (who 99% are just as greedy and will switch their traffic in a heart beat to whomever is paying the most that day), then the site makes money for a month or 3, they stop spending money to update the site, the retention falls in the toilet, they stop making the money and they close down.

That process used to be about 2 years to 2 and half years, now its down to about a year it seems.

I feel the pay per sign up model is to blame alot for this, with a partnership model they are your partners for the life of the customer, with this model everyone makes good money but webmasters want more than that. How many of these new sites even have a real site, they are just a ton of pics and videos shot about this brilliant idea and really for how long can I member jerk off to it. In the old days sites like Carol Cox, Danni, Busty Amateurs, Jenna Jameson, ALS Scans, Karups ruled the world. Each one of these sites develop a relationship with the surfer that they recur forever. The new sites today are micro niching on a big niche and the surfer just has to much variety that they now have no loyalty. In all reality a surfer can buy trial after trial, download all the content to their computer, and jerf off in piece and quiet and not get billed each month.

OK, time to get back to work and get some updates done. I think this year we are going to see more companies fall by the way side to when you sign up for an affiliate program you should do some research on the company first before you spend all your time putting pages on the web promoting them and a year from now your links don't work anymore.

G