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Originally Posted by polish_aristocrat
TheDoc, so what is in your opinion the reason that a landing page getting the same amounf of US-traffic from Google, searching for "hot teens" would have probably earned 5 times more 8 years ago than today?
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In the most simplest of terms... 99% of all U.S. Industries are down, including Internet/Broadband connections. Even before the recession and WAY before Tubes, we can mark "exact" downturns in our Business, the largest being 2257 <-- that's actually the final nail in the coffin.
For you - to get more sales, we need more global online exposure (ie: more webmasters) doing more promotions, more pages, producing more interest, more searches, and more buyers. So the more people remove piracy, the less traffic our Industry has.
So if you removed free porn, you have no interest, NO TRAFFIC, you would have a VERY tiny bubble of buyers.. 1000's of times smaller than we have now. You "assume" people get online to find us - that's the problem... they don't, they go online to check facebook, look at su, play games, and maybe grab some new music... If your porn/traffic filters are in these areas - You win! If not, your fucked... <-- todays #1 problem
But anyway.. At the simplest of levels, you built something 8 years ago that made 5 times more. Why would you think it would remain the same? No search term, even the best term that can't ever have privacy, has went down -> with time.
This is basic 101 business, nothing will remain the same and only a very small % will really grow. If you built something 8 years ago for 1 keyword, today it had better be 10000x larger, cover 10000's of keywords, pages, etc. Google knows the value of long tail, so if you focus on one word or small group, you fail..
Be back later... kids/school, blah.....