AdultFriendFinder & "God's Own Traffic" -- AN UPDATE
 

Hi, I work for the 56th largest Web site in the World.

For those of you who may not be familiar with us, it?s called AdultFriendFinder.com.

We help bring people together for sex, dates or whatever, from all walks of life, from all over the world.

There are about 90,000 people on the site right now, and over 18 million active members. Pretty cool, huh!

During the last few months, we?ve been getting what I can only describe as God?s Own Traffic.

We introduced a bunch of exciting new promotional tools, including lots of geo-sensitive ads and linking strategies. The results have been simply overwhelming. Affiliates are making more money with AdultFriendFinder.com than ever before.

Believe me, I know ? I have the extraordinary pleasure and responsibility of sending them their checks.

With that kind of success and unprecedented traffic, however, it?s only logical that our infrastructure would give the occasional shiver or suffer the occasional hiccup.

I?d like to apologize for all of that and for the inconveniences that result whenever technology doesn?t work as it?s specced. As I?ve already reassured many of you personally, you will be compensated for any lost revenues owing to such ?growing pains?.

I hope everyone understands that when your ?problem? is having too much traffic, things breaking in the middle of the night DOES NOT mean we?re having trouble paying the rent. Quite the contrary, as a matter of fact -- LOL.

So, my promise to make it up to you with CASH should cause no one any insecurity. Just give me, or your extremely capable AFF rep, a holler. We?ll take care of it. Period.

Now there are some things you probably don?t know about FriendFinder Inc. that it may be a good moment to tell you.

I?ve worked all kinds places, but never anything like FriendFinder. I?ve worked for technology companies with product development cycles with a beginning, a middle and an end.

But, at FF, we are ALWAYS in a development cycle. IT NEVER ENDS.

To be honest, at first it didn?t make any sense to me. But then I realized that only by being in a perpetual state of BETA TEST can you keep up the pace of development and rate of innovation we have and still do, and (God willing) always will.

I?d say it?s the number one reason for our success. Credit: Andrew Conru ? it?s all his doing. I?m just a delirious seaman on the deck of sailboat with a 10,000 foot mast. Yeah, that?s what it feels like in here!

So, here?s the deal ? we?re spending millions on hardware, we?re sparing no expense to keep the sail firmly attached to the deck.

Among the things we?re doing are:

Increasing Server Capacity by 50% -- larger cages, many, many more boxes.

Reorganizing our basic storage infrastructure for better balancing and CPU utilization.

Replacing our Front-Door Routers, which will reduce packet loss by an order of magnitude.

In closing, I?d like all of you know that there has never been a better time to be an AdultFriendFinder.com affiliate. The site is more packed with features and member value than ever. There are more people on the site to convert your traffic. Webmaster checks are larger than ever. Our affiliate management team is more capable than ever.

And, basically, it?s all VERY, VERY good.



I?m available to all of you to discuss any of this or just shoot the breeze.



Warm regards,

j-(ack Mardack, General Manager)

ICQ: 222141571
YIM: TwoHousePlague
jack @ friendfinderinc.com

Very glad to hear jack :winkwink:

i love aff
 

I love aff !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It has been berry berry good to me

And the geo targeting ads rock

AFF sure takes care of me, even with my constant whining... jack goes beyond it all, to make sure I'm extremely happy. =)

He even sends care packages sometimes...

I hate to regift, but... does anyone need some anal beads and a naked pick of Jack? The thought was nice, but I really have no use for them. =(

jack likes my ass

Dude, those were urethral beads.


j-

What happened to that innocent boy in your sig?


Oh wait.. I think he's hiding beads in his cheeks.

AFF a trust worthy company! nothing more to add :thumbsup

i think that jack should do fan signs with beads

:bowdown :bowdown :bowdown AFF

AFF rocks. Keep up the good work.

:thumbsup

why are the people over at aff the coolest people ever....Mucho props to you guys you will never loose my traffic!

thank you for treating me as a close friend! it makes a difference!

54th

Alexa ranks you at 29th
where are you getting your numbers from?

We're 29th among all English Language sites.


j-

:thumbsup :thumbsup :thumbsup :thumbsup :thumbsup :thumbsup

XOXOXO
*Krystal*

AFF rocks, I started the other thread to put some pressure on them, I'm glad they're on it, and I wish them best of luck running this huge program! And the offer to make up for the lost sinups is amazing. I'm glad you're my #1 sponsor in 2005.

AFF is awesome!! :)

Nice update on the situation, wish more sponsors took the time you took to make this statement whenever they have issues

what she said http://community.the-underdogs.org/s.../icon_beer.gif

Sounds like good stuff. Can't imagine how much traffic you guy have a month.... :)

AFF converting like a crazy mofo for me since 1996 afilliate ID 159 I had an earlier one than that but lost it.

aff rocks

Thank you!

So do you, cupcake.


j-

see sig.

AFF rocks. No doubt about it. I have tried every other dating program out there and not one comes close to AFF. None. Even on their worst days, AFF makes me more money than other dating program's best days.

AFF is a kickass company! No doubt at all they'd come through to cover any minor mistakes that pop up :)

Great going, guys!! :thumbsup

Tip of the hat, sweet-thang!

Thank you!

You guys are pretty awesome yourselves.

j-

Just make the site load faster and Ill be one happy guy

AFF kicks ass! :)

We ARE. We WILL.

Reality check: Our pageviews versus Dell.com...

http://home.att.net/~mardack/ffstuff/affvsdell.gif


j-

Looking foward to seeing some faster geo-ads.
Keep up the good work guys :)

btw: who's #1?

Another little Silcon Valley start-up -- Y!


j-

AFF pays my rent.

They are an amazing company! I am proud to be associated with them!

Wow... can't think of any other sponsors that take care of their affiliates like this, thanks :)

For over a year now, AFF has been above and beyond our best affiliate program, and our biggest moneymaker. Jack has been there from the beginning, giving us extremely helpful pointers and advice. He's been available around the clock, and he's really made us a lot of money.

If you're not with AFF you're making a huge fucking mistake!

excellent message J, thanks for the info! I still love AFF :thumbsup

Mine too. :)

j-

AFF converts well for me!!!

Looks like it is full sail ahead for you guys as usual Jack.
I like the pic of you Andrew and Adam in your sig...Good stuff.

See you in Cancun in a week or so. :)