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Originally Posted by fartfly
just not as easy as it used to be.  |
I always worked my traffic by hand on my tgps. Never blindlinked, circle jerked, did installs, etc. etc. You know, all the nasty things that affiliates can do and definitely do all the time. My shit was always clean. So the traffic QUALITY was always good.
That's why freeones can make so many sales when they push you. They are clean. Some sites with twice that traffic can't make 1/100th of the sales.
Remember, the affiliate model in adult was originally SUPPOSED to be a way for free site OWNERS with traffic to send sales to paysites. That transformed almost immediately in the mid-1990's into surfers signing up as "affiliates" and getting free hosted accounts, buying content discs, and making galleries and sales (that is until we banned the freehosts from tgps...because again....they were ripping people off. That's right the AFFILIATES were doing it)
Now it's turned into a free-for-all clusterfuck of "affiliates" who don't own anything and don't really have any traffic. They are all "search engine gurus" who "work" the search engines with little more than an affiliate code and a post bot for blogs.
Sometimes it's a hard pill for me to swallow to even consider them as part of this business....because they really aren't.
The affiliates with the most sales are freeones, boobster, jogs, lanas, and a HANDFUL of others. And the one thing they all have in common is that they actually own sites that are well done and full of personality and a "human touch".
That is something that all "affiliates" could learn from in my opinion.