I had an interesting talk with BD of SEG yesterday... the discussion evolved around perhaps requiring that all free galleries, tgp's ... sites have to have the good stuff pixellated
and maybe that, we should start a network of sites like that, everyone would sell more, and the people who didn't buy in would have higher bandwidth and less revenue
my personal opinion is that the knowledgable webmasters will survive, the people who go out and buy new content and post it for free will go broke, mostly
some people think the name of the game is how high your counter spins
but the real name of the game is the size of the number your accountant writes down at the end of the year
as far as I am concerned, outside of the tgp postings and sites behind avs's , with a couple of exceptions, all the open fed free sites I have are being changed so the "good stuff" is pixellated on the images
it's the first time I have noticed an upturn in sales in a while with the sponsors I am using there
Partly of course this is anticipation of restrictions being imposed on the adult online business, but certainly giving away 1000's of hardcore images isn't the answer.
If you doubt me, take a look at the ap tour... see any hardcore images there?
My sales are going up dramatically on the sites I have done, so far, so I am going to continue doing it
People that place large broadband "money shots" and multi meg movies for free are, well, you know
shooting themselves in the pocket books
The best experts in manupulating surfers to click stuff, are cj sites. There is usually no real content, just links and banners... but lots of surfers still click the links