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Originally Posted by Yanks_Todd
It was 41 million views, so around .5% CTR. What does a view translate as, that is the question. I am not sure of the answer. How does 41 million picture views over 14 months of Hun galleries compare to these stats?
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I came up with this from trying to figure it up quickly.
43,500,000 views to earn that $29K (332 sales) at 0.5% CTR.
I know in 2009 I was able to pull off a 3% CTR (two banners with text links below them, plus a large text link, plus a click through on the player) and 1:1000 or better on high quality sites like yours. And that is with the poor affiliate tracking which is typical in the industry and not accounting for people who would just type it in bypassing my affiliate link.
So assuming the same 43.5 million views went to my site back then versus the sum total of xhamster:
1,305,000 uniques at 3% ctr
1305 sales vs your 332 sales.
If you cut half of those away as a simplistic way to account for having to pay me 50%:
652.5 sales vs 332 sales
So there is an opportunity cost there of nearly 50% less profit for you even after accounting for having to pay me my cut because those views are happening at Xhamster versus one of my affiliate sites. Then I think the numbers you gave for Xhamster are lifetime. So that means it includes the numbers from when things were better.
Of course the traffic is where the traffic is and things are how they are. There's been A LOT of damage done and it will take time to patch it up if that is even possible at this point. I wish it were.