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Originally Posted by JeremyB
Robbie - really interesting stats, thanks for posting.
I'd be interested to know the difference in who / what / how you're promoting now because it looks like you're sending approx 30% of the traffic, which will make aprrox 30% of the revenue from July 06? So it seems like there's a correlation there. (It's also converting 3 x worse, but it does make double the $ value per sale).
Obivously, that's if you're willing to share :-)
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Of course...I had 20 X the sheer amount of traffic up until the beginning of 2007. Coincidentally the time that torrents and then tube sites started gaining all that traffic.
At first I was unconcerned. I theorized that it was basically all the teenage boys leaving. Which was true. But then the adults discovered that they could get entire members areas for free and they followed suit.
Didn't take long for the big sites ratios, money, and rebills to all but disappear. For instance, Naughty America. I've promoted them since they started as SoCal Cash. I went from making sales at an average of 1:500 with them...to actually having a ratio earlier this year of 0:19,000!!! And Naughty America's websites are BETTER than they ever have been. The content is kicking, the production is awesome. Just a great program. EXCEPT you can find every scene they have ever done for free on a torrent site.
Now I'm a no traffic, no sales, broke motherfucker. And I'll get told by folks on here to "adapt or die" and that I'm "stuck in 1998" etc., etc., etc. Well, I own and run a tube site that is either at number one or in the top 5 for a HUGE keyword. Between that and my TGP's I'd like to cry. Just look at Grampland.
http://grampland.com/mmpage.html It's the best it's ever been. It's a blog handwritten by me. It's a tube. It's a TGP. And I have stupid shit for the surfers to enjoy and entertain them as well. Traffic is gone. And it ain't coming back either.
And my dedicated tube site? I have some long ass clips on there. I have a few short ones too. And yeah I have dating on there. But I also make sure to link both the vid AND a big text link to the paysite that each vid is from. And it ain't no bullshit tube either. It's konrads mech bunny script on a domain that I paid a few grand for.
Sales? Maybe one a week to a paysite.
Does the economy hurt? Hell yes.
But yet at the same time I protect the content in my paysite at Claudia-Marie.Com and I made it a tube site/paysite. No problems with the economy there. Once I stopped our content from being everywhere for free...sales took off again. I only wish I could do the same things for the hundreds of programs I promote.