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Originally Posted by MisterPeabody
Good-bye free ride, hello WORK.
Good-bye lazy losers, hello commited business people.
Good-bye free blowjobs for links, hello paid blowjobs for links.
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It's worse than that, MisterPeabody. Notice I said affiliates. As a sponsor you have a slightly different reality. You will tend to convert better as you don't have to worry about cookie tracking. You might still be an affiliate but it's mostly your own member area. You have all these tubes where you can still toss up a video or two and make a few million impressions and eek out a couple sales a day from it.
The affiliate on the other hand with those type of numbers is facing a different reality. That's 200,000 page views to make one sale on their own site. Even if the affiliate scales and is somehow able to generate five times the productive traffic that's just 5 sales. Now consider what the bandwidth bill for that depending on the type of site.In many cases it isn't viable. If you, Mr. Peabody, get 200,000 page views to your front page otoh then you're probably filthy rich. If the affiliate only does that then they are eating Top Ramen and living in a cardboard box. See the difference?
If an affiliate didn't work at least ten times harder than they did a decade ago there is no way they could still be full time in the industry. It's not a question of being lazy. My point is that the model has changed. In many cases it's just no longer viable to be an affiliate for a paysite. Sure it can be good bonus money. Sure there might still be some good sites out there which do really good but as far as being the main business model those times are long gone unless you're prepared to throw tremendous amounts of traffic at the problem and overcome it with raw numbers.