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Old 09-20-2011, 10:44 AM  
Paul Markham
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Originally Posted by Sid70 View Post
Can I haz a design order to redo your '95 ish thing http://www.paulmarkhamcash.com ?
How much? Best be cheap because I'm running down the business.

I suppose I had best explain again for those who don't catch on. Getting traffic is easy. Traffic sellers will sells 100,000s of uniques very cheap. So for them it has to be easy, and if you can afford it for anyone else it's cheap.

Yes it's shit traffic, which is why they're selling it cheap.

Same applies to content. Good stuff costs a lot, because it's worth a lot.

So getting traffic is easy.

Getting very very good traffic is hard and getting harder. Getting average traffic requires a lot of traffic. A simple rule is. The the easier the traffic the harder the sale.

So the "No traffic" argument falls flat on it's face. Open a paysite, email traffic sellers and before you know the site's getting 1,000s of hits. No sales, just 1,000s of hits.

Similar goes for a Tube site, WarChild says he converts at around 1-500 off a Tube site. That's 499 saying no, which IMO makes it crap traffic. What he won't tell us is how many people are satisfied with his free porn, before 1 clicks a banner and how hard he has to work to get the initial traffic. Does it mostly come from SE or traffic guys? Probably a mix.

Traffic is easy to get, getting sales is the tough part. Getting enough traffic to make sales is also tough. Which I never claimed was easy.

Now if a non traffic guy knows this, why don't all the trolls?

That was a joke trolls.
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