Well, This Is Depressing (aka Google Analytics for SE Traffic to LOR)

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Originally Posted by Toby

If you are going to sell something else entirely, you build a site specifically to promote that new product.........Or more specifically, build a new network of sites to promote that new product.

Ever watch TV? Did you notice how, during the Superbowl you only ever see adds for football products? How during the cop shows they only sell detective novels and toy police uniforms? And how during the sci-fi shows they only ever show ads for trips on Virgin Galactic, and Star Wars toys?

No?

That is because no successful business outside of Internet porn works on the model you suggest. Everyone else sells "other stuff", not "more of the same stuff that they give away free to attract customers".

Now, have you noticed how, in Internet porn (where we give away free porn and expect people to be so grateful that they buy porn for money rather than continue to surf for more free porn), there are less and less people running adult sites? And despite the drop in competition, most people still in business are complaining that they don't make as much as they used to?

That is because most people are still using the same model that you suggest (give free porn, then hope people decide to pay for it rather than continue to watch the free stuff).

IMHO only selling porn on porn sites is so "last century" and makes about as much sense as designing sites that can only be viewed on Windows98/IE6.

Originally Posted by Toby

One more thing to add, purely my own opinion, but if your business plan is highly dependent on search engine traffic for success.........

I don't think any of us are doing that, are we? I don't even think it is possible (unless you own the search engine and adjust the results to put your sites at the top).