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Originally Posted by seanchai
I agree with what you say a lot of the time but you if genuinely think that the owner of the Hotfile company, isn't making $100,000's from their company then you are the one that's out of touch.
The reality is there were more than handful making that sort of money and some of US still are, just because you've been around for a while doesn't make you right on everything.
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I didn't say they aren't making money. I said that any good webmaster could monetize that traffic 1000 x better.
And no. There were no bigger sites than ours and the others I mentioned. A handful. If you or anyone else had that kind of traffic I would have known you and done business with you. There were only a small group of us at that time.
And hell, we'd all still have that kind of traffic and revenue generating ability IF everything wasn't already stolen and given away for free.
Remember, we not only made big money off dating and cams...BUT we were making even MORE money off selling paysite memberships. They've pretty much turned that into a nightmare.
And again...I sold simple text links on my "What's Hot" list for 6 grand a month. I always had 9 spots to sell on there and there was always a waiting list.
And that was just one small section on the main page. I kept the top banner spot for myself because it generated at least 30k a month in paysite sales.
And then there were the paid gallery listings. I charged 5 grand a month. One link per day.
And then there were the thousands of hosted galleries which made us another hundred grand a month.
I don't care what you guys THINK about these pirate sites. They do not generate the revenue that they could with that kind of traffic number.