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Originally Posted by Paul Markham
Look at Tubes, lousy design, loads of content, loads of traffic and lousy conversion ratios.
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Tubes have the best design in online adult to date IMO. It's extremely simplistic, everyone knows the universal layout and knows where the "top rated", "most viewed", "categories" etc links are, it is standardized. You can't design a members area much more member friendly than that unfortunately. And that's another reason tubes are so popular. They are setup better than 95% of paysites. Yesssss we know all the free porn is what attracted everyone to them and made them familiar with the design, but that's really besides
this point. The design is great, piracy and whatnot aside.
As far as the repeated bland content flooded on most of them and shitty ratios, yeah couldn't agree with you more. HOWEVER, there are thousands of small tubes that turn amazing profits and convert like 2005 or better. You simply choose to only focus on the major ones that hoard the majority of porns freeloaders and can't convert a paysite for shit. There are many different types of tubes. Apparently this is a secret or something to everyone here but, one example of a great tube is one ran by 1-2 people, hand picked QUALITY amateur videos, REAL amateur videos, the homemade stuff, nothing from producers, videos can be any length it doesn't matter but longer videos are best because no one is going to glance twice at a site with a bunch of 2 minute videos, ads placed where ever it doesn't really matter either but around the video player at least, and with nice ads you will have 3%-20% CTR and ratios between 1:50-1:500 and traffic building FAST. Where's the complaint? Of course no free porn available would be the ideal situation, but this is the reality and people have found a way to run a tube that isn't all about free porn and no profit. Don't fucking comment about all the free porn on it because that is a given at this stage in the game or at least irrelevant in the point I'm trying to make. Maybe one day we can find a solution. But for now you CAN build traffic fast as a motherfucker and CONVERT IT. PERIOD.