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Originally Posted by Libertine
Remember the old days, 10+ years ago? Conversion rates were insanely high mainly because high quality free porn was so much harder to find.
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Hah-hah! I was there, and you're quote is incorrect in one way...there was NO quality porn on the net back then. Just a bunch of horrible paysites that all had the same exact Z-Master pics that appeared to have been taken in the mid-1980's, coupled with the same exact feed package from Pornholio.
THAT was a paysite 10 years ago. Nobody was doing exclusive content for the web. There was no broadband connection. Most people were still surfing on 28k dial up and the people with 56k were the bomb.
The ONLY reason we made so much damn money back then was because it was brand new and the first thing a person does when they get online is go look for some naked pictures.
There are a lot more variables than are ever discussed around here that have to do with "the good old days" being so good.
Remember the joke from those days? "There are really only 15 porn pics on the internet"?
We were selling shit and people were lined up to buy it because this was the coolest shit they had ever experienced. You didn't have to go to the adult bookstore anymore! Of course just downloading a very low res 100k picture took about 10 minutes back then on our shitty dial up modems...but it was such a new thing that everybody wanted to buy a membership.
Things are a lot different now. A person has a HUGE variety of choices. The selection is a million times better for a person to choose where to spend their money.
As an affiliate I have noticed a big drop in sales on the bigger programs that hire the girls and have hundreds of different girls on their themed sites. But at the same time I've noticed an increase in sales on the solo girl sites...at least the ones who do hardcore.
My humble advice would be to keep moving with the flow. Right now niche is king. Next year it may shift back to generic sites.
One thing is for sure...the guys out there who have love for the big tit girls, or the tiny tit girls, or fat ones, or black ones...those guys who have that very specific fetish aren't going anywhere.
They don't particularly find satisfaction on a tube site. They want to join a site with a girl who fulfills their fantasies and interact with her.
Those are the sites you need to target right now. Those big sites with hundreds of girls getting paid per scene? Those are more LIKE a tube site if you think about it. So the surfers who go for that kind of thing probably are staying on the tube sites. They can't really interact or develop any kind of loyalty to a website. But they can develop a loyalty to a specific girl.
However, if they can find that favorite girl all over a tube site. And they can't interact with her anyway on the big corporate sites. Then why not just watch her fuck for free?
Niche solo girls. For now that's the way to go if you have good traffic.
It's not the be-all, end-all. Shit changes every couple of years. But for now it still makes good money.
And that is my free advice.