Feel The August Slowdown?

[plateman]

fuck it

[Jel]

Originally Posted by ecchi

Yeah my comment "shit webmaster" was a bit on the strong side, but it wasn't in my original post it was in a reply to someone else. However that said, the points I made to LB and Tickler apply to you (and you have even less excuse than them, you know that people outside North America use credit cards and spend on the 'net). However much you are making, you would be making more if you targeted your sites better. The point you are missing is that if you did this you would not only reduce that three month dip YOU WOULD ALSO BE MAKING MORE MONEY EVERY WEEK OF THE OTHER NINE MONTHS OF THE YEAR. From what you say, you are throwing away about half what you could earn. You call that using your brain?

Nah what I am saying is *because* I target where I do, I make e.g. those figures, whereas if I change my strategy to see NO dip, I ultimately earn less overall (That's not to say I target only North USA, just that's where I concentrate more).

Originally Posted by ecchi

General point: I am actually finding this thread very depressing. I don't expect everyone to agree with me, but I do expect people to think. What I am reading is a lot of people saying "I don't agree with him and he is saying I do things wrong, so I'm not even going to think about what he said. I'm not going to look into it myself and see if there is a better way, because if he is right, then I am wrong, and I'd rather loose a lot of money than find out I am wrong." I genuinely thought that most people here were than better than that. My use of terms like "shit webmaster" were meant to shake up those that needed shaking, but it just seams to have made some people bury their heads deeper in the sand.

I really don't know why I bother. I'm not trying to be popular, I was fully aware when I typed my first post in this thread that I would be lowering my popularity rating with it. But I had hoped that it would at least provoke people into thinking, and that some people would be making more money because of it. But, well, to slightly misquote someone else "The more I learn about people, the more I like dogs."

Well I for one am glad you did - these type of threads are always good

[LD]

I have actually had a slight increase in sales. This year in general has been pretty much shit for me, though.

[LB]

The funny thing is I am seeing across the board declines in ratios but traffic is getting better and better. Infact my most successful sites are my tube sites ... for some reason tube surfers still pay for porn.

Just sayin