Life's damned tough right now if you're trying to maintain the semblance of "$35 per signup" and worrying more about luring a thousand or so GFYers into sending tens of thousands of TGP hits than they are the surfers themselves. And let's not forget most of those hits coming from the TGPs are surfers who have just come from a site that may have a few thousand new free pics each day. Oh, and it gets worse, now they have movies too! And better still, many TGPs wont list a gallery unless it is so slick the graphics are almost paysite quality...and dont you dare put too many ads on the page or lord forbid a blind link.
Yup, playing that way, you gotta upsell your ass off and squeeze every dollar you can from that rare poor bastard who is willing to cough up his credit card.
Our amateur sites are feeling pain from this too. The surfers have been jerked around and are tougher to convert in general. And the processors are scrubbing to the bone. But if you deliver exactly what you promise them, treat them well and do so at a price that is reasonable for what they receive, they're just as loyal as they ever were.
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