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Old 01-11-2012, 03:31 PM  
Paul Markham
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Originally Posted by borked View Post
Paul - I can see the angle you're coming from and you're not entirely wrong. Look at it this way: the people sending traffic to this are affiliates, so they want to make money from their traffic.
It's a difference of opinion and not really about what's right or wrong.

I count the number of people viewing the site, or the gallery. Others ignore that number and only count the number going to the site. Both are pretty dismal. IMO.

Others think they are pretty good to convert 1-500 going to the site and it take 2,550 uniques to get the 500. IN THEIR OPINION.

I think it's wrong, but realise the game of giving away more and more free content is just a game of leap frog. It started with decent numbers and gone to IMO awful numbers.

I don't agree with your scenario, because all this is teaching the surfers to keep searching for full length free videos. Legal or not doesn't come into it. They don't care, they don't think they have to pay for porn. And they are right. They don't have to. Not an opinion.

Whether converting now 7 in 250,000 is good or bad. Is just an opinion. Ultimately the ratios will get worse. Because to do otherwise would reverse the trend of the last 12 years. Then people will talk about the days when 7 in 250,000 was the good old days.

And yes IMO, 250,000 uniques looking at porn is 250,000 uniques looking at porn. If only 10% or 20% 0r 5% can be asked to click on a link, doesn't mean they don't consume porn and some of them a potential market. Well they would be if the had to pay for porn.

Just my opinion.
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