Why is this business harder these days?

[the New Shemp]

Originally Posted by Toby

Who's worshipping? Trade scripts are just another tool in the arsenal. We can't all be another shemp.com, that ship sailed more than a few years ago.

man, i was trying to make a joke....
i should hang at places where the webmasters have a sense of humour...sorry...
shemp

[Toby]

Originally Posted by the New Shemp

man, i was trying to make a joke...

sorry, but I didn't see a wink or a smile with your post.

Originally Posted by matyko

I will have to start trading in some days/weeks. What I've already learned it will be hard... Will be screwed dozen times... If this is a mess even for experienced webmasters, then what should a newbie like me say?

That is one of the big reasons I use a trade script. Even when I use a "hard link" and don't script the outgoing link I can still input the trade domain into my script so that it logs the incoming traffic. If a trade partner sends no traffic for a few days you can then go investigate to see if your link has been removed and contact the site owner to find out whats up.

[Lunatic]

Ever since free porn started becoming available on the Internet, one of the main ways, if not the only way, to compete with the next guy has been to offer more free porn, unless you have a very small niche that there isn't so much competition in.

So what are some ways that the amount of free porn could be reduced?

[the New Shemp]

Originally Posted by Lunatic

Ever since free porn started becoming available on the Internet, one of the main ways, if not the only way, to compete with the next guy has been to offer more free porn, unless you have a very small niche that there isn't so much competition in.

So what are some ways that the amount of free porn could be reduced?

99% of the free porn is supplied eagerly by the sponsors...make the damn affiliates pay for the content (take the cost off their sales) and the free porn would drop like a rock in a bucket of water..

[SheepGuy]

Originally Posted by the New Shemp

99% of the free porn is supplied eagerly by the sponsors...make the damn affiliates pay for the content (take the cost off their sales) and the free porn would drop like a rock in a bucket of water..

Truer words were never spoke. If the big guys want to find out why their 300 paysites aren't selling as much as their first two or three paysites did a few years ago, well, that's exactly why.
Too fucking late now though, if you start a paysite and don't give the entire contents of it to affilliates to give away for nothing, nobody will become an affilliate, and you'll go broke.
Would make it very tough for anyone breaking into the paysite end of the biz especially. Glad I got out of it a long time ago.