[cj]

Originally posted by Lee@Aug 22 2004, 10:37 PM
CJ I see where you are going but no it wouldnt be the content offered.

What attracts affiliates in 'todays' adult industry is money, the amount of money they earn and the amount of money that program owners can throw away hand over fist for stupid 'parties' that serve nothing more than to get webmasters drunk, high and laid.

So good quality sites that retain members because of content have nothing to do with making money?! And throwing parties that get webmasters drunk and laid gets you more webmaster traffic?!

Of course, it also helps if you can do all the work for them to like offering them free hosted galleries, free sites, content, submission tools and the likes.

So ........ by offering webmasters content like sites and galleries, they'll be more likely to promote your sites through your affiliate program?

Which comes first then, the content or the traffic?

Todays webmasters mentality is so different even from 6 years ago when i joined, they want it all, they want it all now and, they dont want to have to work for it either.

Yes ... webmasters want content & quality sites provided for them because traffic is so easy to generate, any college dropout can do it ... again, which comes first, content or traffic?

Content is nothing when a webmaster in 'todays' industry signs up for an affiliate program, they look at the following..

1) How much they will make.
2) How often you get them drunk, high, laid.
3) How much of the work you will do for them.

Content is nothing when a webmaster choses a program?!?!!? what a load of rubbish!! The 100% reason why a webmaster choses to promote your site is your content ... your content IS your site, the design, the photos, the movies etc is ALL CONTENT. The other factors like payout etc are secondary - if your content is good, the webmaster will at least TEST your program.

1) How much they will make is based on the quality of your site, how well it converts and retains (even on PPS, if a program retains bad you don't get paid much per signup) and several other factors which revolve around the relationship between content and traffic ... NOT one or the other.

2) How often you get a webmaster drunk, high or laid has NOTHING to do with how much money they will make or how much they will make you. The webmasters who choose sponsors based on who provided the most beer are of no interest to me.

3) Again, How much of the work you will do for them means 'how much content will you develop for them' ... a site is content in itself, not just the pics that are published on it.

Everything you said supports my point even more ... traffic is EASY to get, good content & presentation of that content isn't as common. If you have good content and presentation, traffic will be attracted to your sites - this works for both webmasters AND surfers.