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Old 10-31-2010, 02:36 PM  
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Originally Posted by plsureking View Post
ya web video was born from porn. affiliate programs were born from porn. even the member subscription model was born from porn. then youtube and web 2.0 came and mainstream got 2 laps ahead.

as far as earnings per visitor, porn beats mainstream. however, in gross sales and gross traffic, mainstream as a whole is bigger. stands to reason tho, since a good mainstream site will easily have millions of visitors a day. porn is less than 10% of the total internet economy.

i know plenty of mainstream sites who get a million+ visitors a day and are barely paying their bills. one widget company owner i talked to last year has over 100 servers to serve widgets on myspace and hi5 sites, but personally earns less than $50k a year. huge traffic but little profit.

so who is really winning the race? hard to say.
That's what I mean though, mainstream is so unbelievably huge that nobody knows all of the different ways to earn money from it. For instance, I know multiple people doing $1 to $3 per click as affiliates and they have the pile of traffic to make that more than just a small income. I studied mainstream techniques for 2+ years solid and I would say I don't even know 5% of the ways people are taking advantage of it. Every day I talk to someone else that does big money on something I've never even considered.
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