Let me tell you why its harder to sell porn these days on the web - Surfers arent as stupid (ok, ignorant) as they were before. You wonder why amateur sites fair better then the others with the big bright splash and tour pages? If you dont know, your in the wrong biz...
We have P2P, Usenet, IRC, etc, etc... So so SO many mediums that a surfer can get FREE quality porn without paying $30 a month for membership to some splashy site that says the same thing all the other splashy sites say, "1000's of pics, movies, etc"
Many surfers have at one time or another bought porn - if you are an adult webmaster and have never bought porn (for yourself, not to sell), then you are lying. ---- Now with that said, everytime I see a thread here exposing a URL thats has a list of PW's to pay sites... what I often hear in these threads is how much the sites in the list suck (inside)- Exactly. So when a surfer pays for something and gets shitted on with lousy content, they are less inclined to risk a purchase like that again with some other sites that has the same splashy designed pages and so forth.
Amateur sites however, do something that EVERY webmaster should do to their site. Simply, a site for porn lovers, by porn lovers. Surfers will appreciate the attention and honesty in sites like this. Amateur sites are more genuine, and they hardly ever have that splashy tour designed shit. And what do most amateur sites lack? They lack a thousand exit pages that put you in a race to either close the window before it executes code to pop up another, or to be fast with the start of their popup stopper program.
If you want to be successful in this industry and get more conversions, setup sites that YOU yourself would buy a membership to. Dont design it too splashy - if you think that gets more sales then you really dont know much. If you design a site with only one thing in mind, making sales, your site will make fewer sales as opposed to designing a site that will SATISFY the surfers you are targettting.
Besides, people are more comfortable buying porn from someone they feel 'closer' too (as in, amateur sites) as opposed to some splashy site that looks like every other splashy porn site they seen.
Just my
