Disclaimer: not a pro or against xxx guy/company here, just posting some updated real stats of traffic I get from search.xxx, for anyone to use as they wish.
Note that we are #3 result for "cams" and #1 result for "free cams", etc. so we're getting already most hits we may hope from the searches we want.
It happened as someone forecasted: from 1 oct to 20 oct the daily hits dropped from 617 to 120. The percentage ratio of hq countries kept stable around 60%.
Only news: search.xxx now shows a "feature sites" at top and "ads" on side, same as google. So since some time for each "cams" search we get an ifriends.xxx/clickcash advert result on top and side (must be special deal as I see nowhere a way to buy advertising), this may have decreased/hijacked very few clicks.
2012-10-01 617 (HQ 391 : 63.37%) 1( 1:617)
2012-10-02 510 (HQ 312 : 61.18%) 2( 1:255)
2012-10-03 324 (HQ 191 : 58.95%) 1( 1:324)
2012-10-04 245 (HQ 148 : 60.41%) 0( 0:245)
2012-10-05 216 (HQ 138 : 63.89%) 0( 0:216)
2012-10-06 255 (HQ 158 : 61.96%) 1( 1:255)
2012-10-07 159 (HQ 90 : 56.60%) 0( 0:159)
2012-10-08 197 (HQ 106 : 53.81%) 0( 0:197)
2012-10-09 154 (HQ 95 : 61.69%) 1( 1:154)
2012-10-10 219 (HQ 144 : 65.75%) 0( 0:219)
2012-10-11 214 (HQ 138 : 64.49%) 1( 1:214)
2012-10-12 160 (HQ 79 : 49.38%) 0( 0:160)
2012-10-13 134 (HQ 84 : 62.69%) 0( 0:134)
2012-10-14 170 (HQ 91 : 53.53%) 0( 0:170)
2012-10-15 140 (HQ 94 : 67.14%) 0( 0:140)
2012-10-16 141 (HQ 88 : 62.41%) 1( 1:141)
2012-10-17 113 (HQ 57 : 50.44%) 0( 0:113)
2012-10-18 114 (HQ 64 : 56.14%) 0( 0:114)
2012-10-19 125 (HQ 77 : 61.60%) 0( 0:125)
2012-10-20 128 (HQ 80 : 62.50%) 1( 1:128)
This is the geo % for traffic from 15th to 20th:
United States 184 22.66%
Israel 101 12.44%
Germany 71 8.74%
China 59 7.27%
Italy 48 5.91%
France 39 4.80%
Greece 35 4.31%
Switzerland 25 3.08%
Canada 25 3.08%
Turkey 22 2.71%
Netherlands 20 2.46%
Romania 17 2.09%
Spain 16 1.97%
Australia 14 1.72%
Brazil 14 1.72%
Sweden 14 1.72%
Indonesia 12 1.48%
United Kingdom 12 1.48%
The ratio it is free users signups (only hq users can signup); results from google traffic are better as hardly lower than 1:100; search.xxx it is at 1:220. Pay users: I got one from Congo; seems legit, altough funny and accidental
Before of search.xxx we was getting 2 hits a day to .xxx's, so all traffic comes from search.xxx. Now I am happy we are in top results, so getting "all the hits we could", but this is just 120 hits a day and seems the drop is the trend. Same traffic we would pay to our affiliates max $20/mo with pay per free lead, or we could buy from a broker for even cheaper, and if drops more that ends into none.
The first week of launch I was getting 900 hits a day, if this could be replicated and kept stable, it would pay back the (higher) renewal costs easily, more a success story. But search.xxx being not promoted = not useful for adult webmasters to own any .xxx's, except a defensive brand for other tld, we and many others do normally with .net, .org etc., but no real extra traffic/sales involved. A pity if final, as a search.xxx with big traffic (even not a porhub level) may be interesting... but would need to buy so much ads to make icm broke quickly, not making sense if traffic does not grow organic on its own.