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Old 02-24-2012, 05:39 AM  
Paul Markham
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Originally Posted by Nicky View Post
Yes on a REAL tube a couple of 1000 is easy to get with enough videos. On a wptube theme It's not as easy and you have to put in even more hard work into It. You can say getting traffic is the easy part but creating original content is why you get traffic and thus It should be included as one of the steps of getting traffic. You create the content to get the traffic.
So creating the content is hard. So content is king.

Just pulling your leg.

Bottom line is. Getting some traffic is easy. The hard part is getting enough to make a sale or having something good enough to make a sale or posting something great enough to make a sale.

Over the last 12 years everyone has put too much effort into just getting traffic. Usually most low sales questions were answered with "You need more traffic." And the prime method to get "more traffic" was to give away more free porn.

Doubling or trebling traffic numbers never in the long term doubled or trebled joins or revenue. which it should of done. It meant more people just consuming more free content. We now have reached the level of major sponsor turning a prime porn domain into a traffic funnel. With a free Tube giving away more free porn.

And today we need 1,000s of traffic to make a sale over all. some will convert 1-50 that land on their site, some with people who click the button and some will do 13 sales out of 1/4 million hits.

The KING in business, isn't getting millions to walk past your shop window, 1,000s to walk in and brows. Its getting some to buy. Getting millions to walk past your window is the easiest part, affording the premises with sales is the hard part. And if the only method you have of selling is getting a spider to list your site high enough on Google to make a sale. It's a sign of poor salesmanship.

And here's the outcome. This concentration on the traffic game has led us to over pay and value the suppliers and under pay and value the product. Even though there are 100s who can do this job to a good degree. Yet with the product there are far fewer who can produce a product that will really separate them from the rest of the pack. I suspect with many it was simply after the expenditure for traffic not enough was left to employ the best shooters.

I don't know about your sites, so this is general. We all know a lot of great sites, based on the work of great shooters, who usually were attached to or were the site owners.

As has been said, getting a few 1,000 to view some free videos is easy, getting them to buy something is hard. Sad and sorry state of a once booming industry.
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