Originally Posted by TheSquealer

Finally Paul Markham... the guy who has never had successful paysites, traffic sites/traffic or an affiliate program is here to explain everything to everyone.

I expect nothing but great things from this thread now.

All I will say is this... A few years back, when youporn was first allowing a few webmasters to submit content with banners/descriptions under the video, I saw someones stats and it was unreal. At a time when everyone was bitching about "free content" and how tube traffic was complete garbage and unmonetizable.....a well known webmaster in the industry was submitting content for his amateur site and doing extremely well with conversions. On top of that, all his videos were watermarked and everyone was blown away at how many people were seeking out his content/paysites just from that.

Tube sites are nothing different than what link lists, top lists, tgps, mgps etc were. They are where the traffic goes to find free content. How you utilize that, if you do or not, or if you can do it successfully depends entirely on you and your own business savvy, knowledge of your niche, your market, your users and website marketing in general. Many are quietly doing very very well. Most are loudly doing very very bad. That has always been the case and the next time a shift happens from tubes to something else or some other technology, those doing well today are going to be the new ones bitching about the new thing killing the industry.