This post will stir it up I think.
The people who make the final decision on whether your content works or not are not affiliates, not even the serious affiliates who send up to 10,000 hits a day. It's the surfer who BUYS porn and not the surfer who looks at porn. Numbers of hits are no longer a good link to the number of sign ups.
If you produce cloned porn that has no individual personality and character why should anyone sign up? Tube sites are full of this stuff and these surfers might of had to buy a membership 4 years ago, now they don't. Yes what ever efforts you put into producing a great scene it can still be stolen. But better the surfer wants YOUR porn then any porn. Better that your porn has a theme and believable fantasy that is individual then the same porn that 100 other guys with cameras produce. When you have an individual product it's worth protecting.
So it's essential in todays market that you target a fantasy the BUYERS will spend money on, produce it with flair and have something that people are looking for. Then it's the choice of chasing it down on the free sites or buying it. Today to sell you need content people WANT to buy, rather than content to buy.
20 years ago when I started to shoot videos it was easy. Sit a girl on a sofa, tell her to strip, jerk off and cum. Repeat the same scene in the bedroom and bathroom and you had a tape to sell. Stick an advert in soft porn mags and a few other places. And it was easy to sell that video 100 times for $40 in the first 3 months. Over it's life time 300 sales were average. Yes $12,000 from a tape that cost 400 tops to produce and $2 each to duplicate and post.
Today it's a very different business and if your site is full of girls on a sofa or bed getting their rocks off and little else why should anyone buy? It's all over the Tubes. Sadly that was the way many in the business went, buying content on price, people with little preparation shooting content in the belief that all it needed to be was exclusive and the results are clear to see.
Unless you have content shot 20 years ago. That in itself can make it unique. LOL
Make your content individual to you and your site then it becomes worth buying. Maybe you have access to a fine lady like
Lady Sonia or a similar star, maybe you have access to a farm, swimming pool, aircraft or woods near by. What ever can be done to make the content different. And that means every scene. 100 scenes of 100 girls going through the same routine can get a bit boring no matter what you do to spice it up. Unless you're shooting solo girl making sure she's real. Her personality can be enough to make the scene different from the last one.
Use your imagination, because you can bet the BUYERS are.
Of course it's hard, but the rewards are clear. People do not send traffic to sites that don't convert as well as others, owners of those sites can't afford to spend money on content and traffic like they used to. Because the final decision is made by the man with the credit card.
I think it's pretty well accepted that we are losing customers to Tubes. And it's not because they are free. Because if the people on the Tubes never spent money Tubes would disappear. The "Free Porn" is a smoke screen to hide the real reasons.
Tubes offer more choice.
So how can we compete when producing content?
With the girls, letting their personality take over the scene. So we have to make sure the members know who the girl is, what she likes and why she's doing this. It's hard and you have to explain to models it's not about opening their legs and revealing the crack. It's about opening their mind and revealing who THEY are.
Assuming who she is, is worth revealing!!!!
Bottom line is if she's just doing another faked cloned scene, the members will not want a second month of more girls doing the same.