Possible Traffic Method?
 

I thought of this the other day and did a bit of a test.

There are lots of videos on Pornhub & XVideos and other tubes where uploaders have included a domain as a watermark or text on the video.

I found one that looked odd to me and I did a whois, the domain wasn't registered anymore.

I've registered it, put a TGP on it and have had over 420 visitors in the past 24 hours.

It's not indexed by Google and it's all direct entry traffic.

I'm sharing this idea because I am not going to go trawling tubes for domains, but someone might find this method useful.

AdultKing -

Just need to be careful since most of those videos are using stolen content, might get an angry email or 2 about using someone's content with your url stamped all over it :Oh crap Even though it wasn't you posting it :helpme


:2 cents:

Yeah I've considered that. However the domain creation date is well after the videos were posted and I have used a different niche for the TGP than the videos were targeting.

I'm happy to get a few complaints, I'll just refer them to the domain creation date and tell them to take it up with the tubes.

I've only done one domain, it's not a method I'll be using in future, which is why I have shared it.

I've noticed that as well and registered these domains a few times for extra traffic :winkwink:

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I've done this before and never had any complaints. Like you say, the whois creation date resolves you of any infraction in my book.

However I feel like watermark traffic has dropped in the last 10 years. I've put this down to an increase in mobile views. I know I'm much less likely to go to the bother of typing in a domain using my thumbs on a mobile than on a keyboard. I'm curious if anyone else has noticed a down trend? Perhaps also the sheer number of spammy watermarked videos online is a factor?

Didn't try this method exactly but something similar... the traffic was good but poor quality.

Yeah, it's bad enough being on a desktop and doing it. Nobody has the time to remember a domain and hand type it on their phone.

In the first 24 hours I made $3.90 with Crak.

That's 1/3 of the domain cost :)

Not bad :thumbsup