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Originally Posted by will76
What is worst than the pop ups, pop unders, banners, fake im ads, that no one mentioned yet is the Flirt4Free videos. I can't believe no made mention of that yet. On the front page right now there is 30 cams listed. Of those 30, 15 are offline, 4 are dudes that are chaturbating, 1 is a chick that is listed as recorded, and there are 2 girls chaturbating that I suspect are recorded. There is also 8 cams that are listed as Flirt4Free. So all of the *real* people or at least real girls who a surfer would gravitate to is the Flirt4Free ones.
When you click to go into a Flirt4Free cam the first thing you see (besides the fling pop up) is a huge banner on the live cam that says "Click Here to Chat Now for free! This model is on Flirt4Free".
The cute live girls are all flirt4free, your surfers are going to go to those videos first, they are on the front page, several of them and towards the top. When the surfer enters those rooms he is going to see the link to "Chat for free" and is going to click that and sign up to Flirt4Free instead of clicking the "sign up" link on the to right of the page.
Which also I am noticing now there is only place on the entire site where they have a signup link, and its on the top right of the page and it just says " sign up" Why wouldn't that say " Join 100% FREE" or " FREE Sign Up" why just "Sign up" and why in just one spot on the entire site. Why wouldn't you put that everywhere so they can't miss it. Why is it drowned out so much by the ads? (rhetorical questions)
After looking into this more I am now leaning to the side that this was all intention. Those flirt4free videos is 100% worst than any of the other ads, and the lack of sign up links trying to get people to signup vs signup to flirt4free which is 100x more visible, or to sign up via an add, tends to make me think this is more likely intention then oversight or lack of understanding how to run a cam site correctly.
I also noticed some moron spaming in chat MFC "http://www.myfreecams.com/?baf=7525090 " what an idiot, and to even use the link with his aff code in it lol.
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This, plus anyone with some hosting, a domain name and email catcher can do the same thing. If someone rally wanted to leverage traffic and still send to chaturbate, they should first send to a page with an email catcher and once the person registers, THEN send it on to chaturbate. Now, they have a fresh email address they can advertise to themselves and make the odd couple dollars from chaturbate.
If chaturbate wanted to get rid of the model/traffic dilemma, they could spent a few bucks, hire a studio, pay their girls a flat rate for a couple months until the traffic picks up and starts returning, then they can focus on getting cam models.
Relying almost solely on on affiliate traffic, especially these days, will lead toa world of problems and a shortfall of sales.