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Originally Posted by RawAlex
So they are trading a decent bottom line business for a run to be the lowest margin business on the web.
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That's the evolution of capitalism. The biggest companies in the world run on the smallest margins as I mentioned before. It is what it is. Yes they are shooting themselves in the foot, but the strong will survive.
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Originally Posted by RawAlex
Programs that don't go this route will likely get a huge boost in traffic over time as affiliates with traffic but no web20 sites will choose to send their traffic to places where they don't have to compete in an unbalanced situation.
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Programs that don't go this route will probably eventually die out. The free sites with the most traffic are the ones ranking at the top of the search engines. The sites at the top of the search engines are the tgps, mgps, blogs & now tube sites. Affiliate programs dont' have a choice but deal with who has the traffic and unfortunetly the lowest margin producing sites are now them.
Free sites giving away content are the ones search engines like and rank well.
So my theory is that the evolution is:
1. The sites with traffic will be the tube/blog sites with the most given away content.
2. These sites will take over all the se results.
3. Paysites will have no choice but to deal with them.
4. The paysites that don't, won't get traffic...
I firmly believe that the regular affiliate/sponsor relationship is slowly dieing off and those that survive will be the biggiest of the biggest that can survice on the lowest margin.
Believe me, i don't like where this is heading...I just don't see a solution.
By no means do I think people should stop the good fight though. If tube sites can be kept in check I'm all for it. Good job to the thread starter and good luck with this all!