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Originally Posted by ThePornTubeGuy
You'll find that Ruseful is saying that he gets a 1% average CTR from his promotional banners/texts on the tubes he uploads too. The additional 2% is derived from direct type ins from the same exposure on the tubes. This is the 3% traffic he gets, NOT 3% CTR on his promotional banners.
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I understand that. I only went ahead and put the additional type-ins he claimed and figured them in as the ctr to make things simple. One thought if type-ins are really that high as the result of a watermark then affiliates are really getting screwed though, aren't they?
1% actual ctr and 2% type-ins. That would mean the affiliate is getting credit for roughly 33% of the sales they actually drive assuming tracking is otherwise perfect. But I guess this is subject to what you state below when looking at numbers.
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Originally Posted by ThePornTubeGuy
A major factor you may be overlooking is that please don't forget, some smaller tubes (thousands of them) rip the best performing content from the main tubes each and every day, so with strategically placed watermarks, and pre rolls and post rolls on their videos, they actually get significantly more exposure than they can account for. This is a big part of the 2% that they refer too as direct type ins. Hope that clears up where the 3% comes from that they refer too.
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That is significant. I'm not sure whether it is a pro or con though as this means the majority of those scraper tubes will not be showing the pay site's banners or links as the original tube might. You will be fully relying on the watermark to drive type-ins or perhaps pre or post rolls should they be included somehow on these other sites.
The typical legal tube usually has two banners and a link or two in addition to the existing watermarks. Presumably the effective ctr will be 3-4 times what it would be with tube where you are relying on watermarks to drive traffic. Plus the legal tube likely has a significantly better conversion ratio due to less full scenes. This might tie in with "2. Affiliate sales effect" in my previous post.