Originally Posted by Kelli58

What the rude people who responded to you are trying to say is that yes, it is possible and it was done in 1996 to around 1998 and fraud was extremely heavy on both ends.

But more than the fraud issue, we learned something about quality. We learned that any two given sites are not equal by any means. Affiliate programs starting demanding results for their ad revenue and hence the rev share program was formed.

Back in the day people were big into things like TGPs. They would have crazy amounts of traffic but it produced really bad results. Basically what we learned is, shockingly, people who frequented free tpg sites, typically wanted free porn. Shocker, right? I know! I can't believe it myself! Visitors to free porn sites wanting free porn and only free porn? Who would have thunk it!

Seriously though ... it was then the the modern day affiliate program model was born. Some people adapted and survived, many, many, many did not.

Some people to this day are still running those crap ass free sites and wondering why they aren't making any money while others LOL at them.

I love listening to people go on and on about their sites with 23k Alexa ratings and 60,000 visitors a day (blah blah blah) yet in the end that traffic makes them almost no real money.

Then there is the one smart guy who has an Alexa ranking of 2 million, maybe getting 1,000 real visitors a day to his site but converts all of that traffic like mad and actually makes a nice profit from his site.

Trust me when I say, that's the guy you want to be.

Not these dumb asses that talk shit all day long on GFY about how great their site is and how much traffic their sites get. Because trust me, most of that traffic is crap.

Be the little guy with the small but high quality traffic. That's the guy who gets conversions and makes money.