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Originally Posted by Martin
I think tubes do more damage because of how simple they are to use. No 2 hours wait time of downloading etc. Just click play and go.
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I can say for a fact that tubes do more damage to AFFILIATES.
Think about it for a second...
For 10 years I was making more money than God selling memberships to paysites on my TGP's. Everything on my tgps is designed to make sales.
And I sold millions of dollars worth of memberships.
But for the last couple of years...the majority of my tgp traffic (and everybody elses) is now at a tube site. It's almost impossible for any free site to compete with a tube. How can we? I'm offering a few pictures, a few seconds of video and link to the tour. The illegit tube offers every scene in it's entirety from the members areas for free!
So the traffic goes to the tube. But the tube doesn't have the marketing skills of a pregnant mosquitoe so instead of putting up an affiliate link to the actual site the video came from...they sell advertising space to paysites that have NOTHING to do with the video playing!
Thus affiliate sales continue to plummet. I promote hundreds of programs across all my free sites, and the traffic I now have is pathetic to me. And the sales are terrible for the paysites that have their stuff plastered up everywhere.
From what I have seen...the tubes are a major destructive force to affiliates. I think the surfer forums full of site rips on rapidshare are more hurtful to my paysite.
It's a very bad one-two punch.