This is just my opinion and from my viewpoint, others will see it differently.
After running a content site for 3 years and a paysite for 3 weeks I can tell you neither Traffic not Content are King.
Conversions are King.
You can have all the traffic on the net, or the greatest content, but if you can't convert anyone what's the point?
What will bring conversions is an open ended debate, because no matter what you put up someone somewhere will pay for it. The art is in getting as many people as possible who see what you have buy it. Then getting more people to see it.
Getting traffic is easy, let's face it we can go out and buy 1 million hits a day. Getting good traffic is not so easy. So what will get GOOD traffic?
Your own endevours will raise some and then it's down to your own skills to tweak it up. But at some point you are going to have to go out to others to drive it to you and here CONVERSIONS is KING. What brings those conversions is content, the design, layout and navigation of a site and the actual porn on the site.
The good traffic drivers, WHALES, know a bum steer when they see it and all the tarting up and BS in the world will not sway them. It will influence a few kids to drive traffic and some surfers to buy, but the guys who will send a site 10+ sign ups a day will not be fooled that easily.
These guys are the life blood of most sites, sell a site to them and they will work for you.
Some will argue that what ever they do with the content they can never make a huge difference to the sign up ratio and the way forward is to throw more traffic at a site. Well there is an answer to this.
In the 27 years I've been shooting porn I can tell you for sure the picture on the front effects the sales ratio before anything else. Knowing what is good and bad porn is an essential ingredient in making a paysite work. When I meet of these guys who believe traffic is everything, I usually see on his site a lack of understanding of what we are selling.
Obvious one is Teens as dominatrixs, porn stars as amateurs or 25 year olds as teens. This may of cut it 4 years ago, today it does not.
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