Is this ethical to put your tgp archive behind an avs?
 

Someone suggested it to me and I am not quite sure... tho I have my archives from mid-July 2004 when I launched my site.

Your input is welcome :)

If you are promoting any of your own sponsors within those archives you'd most likely be in violation of their program terms by placing access behind an AVS.

So true... I really appreciate your advice.

I'm not sure I understand what you're saying. I know a lot of sponsors that provide free content don't want it used on AVS sites, but I don't think that's what you're referring to. Would you kindly explain? And forgive me if I've misunderstood.

I see his point.. so I think I should go through the archives and ask the permission of my sponsors first.. since they own the content. If I am using my content to promote them that may be considered as an upsell?

I always figured this was one of the primary reasons to do avs...to upsell qualified surfers. Can't see how a sponsor wouldn't like this kind of traffic.

Bummer... I am confused now :D

I'd be interested to hear what a few sponsors have to say about the idea. Just a "gut" feeling, but I don't think they're going to appreciate the difference between building an AVS site with their content, and having their content within free site/gallery archives of LL or TGP that is behind an AVS.

*Using our site as an example here*

Just so I fully understand what you are asking, you are asking if it's ok to put our TGP's/content that you used to promote us in the past, behind a password so people will pay you to see it correct?

If this is the case I say no, our content is for us to make money off of, and we are giving you 50% to promote it, if you put it behind a password and then charge money to see it you are making money off of our copyright material which I would not see any cut of.

Is this what you were asking?

Yes Torn... and thanks for clearing it for me.. I asked a few sponsors and it is fine with them while some said no but I won't redo my tgp just for this... it is much easier to build a new avs with my own content.

Torn....I respect your view and it being your tos etc - it's your content - your rules, but I am curious as to why you wouldn't want someone to promote your site using galleries which promote your site to a surfer who has proven he's willing to whip out the plastic when he gets horny enough?

It's been awhile since I've build any avs sites but the content pages in an avs site is normally used to promote/upsell other sponsors or a premium avs membership no? I thought that was the whole concept of the avs system...apart from the odd avs membership sale.

Hmmm, after more thought I’m not so sure I would say no in the right situation.

The “issue” is would our TGP and other TGP’s be the main feature to this AVS, in your scenario it sounds like they would be, so I would say no to that.

But if you had a solo girl site for instance, and she was the main feature and advertised as such, and you wanted to add some “bonus content” inside the member’s area which would be a TGP with links to us etc, I do not have an issue with that, since the site is not built on our content.

Am I making sense?

yep CelticTiger, I have been thinking more of the idea, and at first I only saw it in one way and not the other, I hope I made a better point with my last post.

Toby,

I am using my own content in at least 50% of my galleries promoting sites, be it hardcore, stockings, teen softcore or hardcore and so on.

But it's just me, some people prefer listing only their FHGs, skim, have blind links up while I am doing it oldschool.

Way much work but can I have 7-800 submissions per day, I still am very picky and and always have some of my galleries at hand.

Yes you make sense Torn... :)

yeah - I agree with you....you wouldn't want your content to be a main feature on the site....I was thinking along the lines of a few galleries from a number of different sponsors etc.

MMM AVS as it use to be a way to pre-qualify your traffic it would be a great idea all you would be doing is allowing only surfers who have a cc to see it but that was in the older model nowadays who knows :)

Ages ago, I convinced a Sponsor program to use AVS on their tour. They supported a dozen AVSs or so, and weren't using AVS as a profit center.

The concept was:

Pull surfers out of the tour that have proven that they have used a credit card on the net
Put more extreme stuff out there that you could never put on the tour.

It worked extremely well until they got greedy and used an AVS that noone had heard of then told me that my concept was crap.

It is in some sponsors TOS whether you can, or cannot require a user to provide an email address to access your site (or similar). So I'd say just check the TOS before you join, and once per month.

Thats my thought, avs traffic is pretty good, least use to be, better than many other forms of traffic as they are proven buyers. As mentioned, suprized sponsors would not want that quality of traffic. Course it's their content, their right.

Also, for most avs sites, besides the premium ones, all avs members have access to the site. It would not be like making money off every person that entered the avs site.

ronnie

Nah it is not enough.. if I ever decide to go this way I'll contact the sponsors first and ask their written permission. Better safe than sorry.

I wouldn't want my content being used to make the sale but if you want to put links to my hosted galleries behind an AVS then by all means, YES.

I would much rather have AVS surfers hitting my hosted galleries then TGP surfers.

If I understand correctly then what you will have is links and not a bunch of sponsor content.

Mine is a thumb tgp which converts much better than links for me... but basically yes.

I would have just done it and never asked

any one sponsor is gonna represent such a small % of the gallerys on the tgp
and if we are talking about hosted gallerys.. well then...

Digifan.. avs is the best traffic, whoever tells you different doesnt know what they are talking about

the avs company is gonna be sending sufers to your tgp everyday
credit card carrying surfers and those surfers use those cards to buy porn on the internet

sufers that buy upsells
surfers that recur a long time

if your using somones content then you premote them to the best of your abilty
it is none of their buisness where your traffic comes from

of course this is just my 2 cents

And your two cents is worth much more to me than others' 200 bucks Tommy :)

I agree the best thing in avs is the surfer who has a cc and ready to buy.. |thumb