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We skim off of our paid spots, because if we didn't, we wouldn't have the traffic to sell to begin with.
I send 2 mil uniques off of my mainpage .. that's actual gallery clicks not including the clicks that go to trades. You're paying for the gallery spot & traffic on my site(s) .. and in my opinion the defenition of the gallery spot includes the fact that is used as a trading tool. That's the bottom line. We sell 24 of the 31 spots .. keep the other 7 for ourselves and a few friends. If we made every spot non-skim, there would be no traffic there to sell, and THEN everyone would bitch about no traffic.
We have every spot sold out on all of our sites, we have a huge waiting list, and no one ever complains about it, so basically the amount of traffic they do get is suitable and makes them happy.
Potential buyers bitch about it, but our 8 month old renewing customers have never peeped.
Just my opinion, and the way we do business. Oh and .. it's no where near 50-70% .. our customers get like 90% of the clicks, and most surfers know that the way my script works, if they click one more time they get to the gallery, so we are really not 'stealing' anything to begin with.
Later :]
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