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Originally Posted by L.A.Mike
Hey guys..... I just read this thread and I agree that you are onto something with the revshare thing. I'm working on a solution now. Im going to try to put all of the removed sites back into the program but forward them to a revshare option. This way you guys can share my misory ;P j/k Some do better than others.
Some of these sites just don't make sense for us from a financial standpoint. The days of surfers joining and staying for months on a site with hardly any content are gone. As a matter of fact most of these sites lost a ton of content when the 2257 rules came out and should have been removed back then. None of these sites had exclusive content and when the new reg's came out we weren't able to get the docs for all of this conent and most of the members areas were wiped clean and down to a very little amount of content. To make up for this we added a number of feeds and access to all of our Reality, Sologirl, and HD sites which were all exclusive content sites. However, these days even throwing all that at the members isn't enough.
The surfer has become very specific in what he wants. There is so much free porn that if he's going to pay for something it's more than likely going to be something specific and you better have exclusive, updated content or he's not going to be there for long.
Most of our original sites from 10+ years ago were basically front ends with shared members areas. Then eventually they all had their own bought content. Those days are far gone.
I hate to remove those sites but all together they weren't doing very many signups between then and they weren't making much money if any money. Basically we were handing out lost money on a some of these.
On the other side of this there is some good domains that get some good joins. We are going to be trying to add in bought content that we can slide in easily without having to encode stuff.. "harddrive ready"
We are working on some major projects that require our entire staff to get completed. So the problem is finding time to address the so called "bottom level" sites with the least amount of traffic.
It's a juggling act of trying to get new top notch product and find time to update the old stuff.
I hope this helps... we are doing our best to do what's best for everyone long term. Surfers, webmasters, and SC employees
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Thanks for the info! Please keep us posted on what will happen to the domains and all.