Visitors believe that they buy the sample galleries

[Celdric]

It takes work and skill to make something attractive enough to close a sale, particularly when there are 100s of other offerings right next to it.

Lassiter, tell that the sponsors. I'm since a half year in the business now and today after looking at countless sponsor programs it appears to me that there is to much massware on the market which is almost impossible to sell. And each week sponsors are throwing more of this stuff on the market.

Okay, I think one can live with this situation, if one signs up with very many sponsors. You may earn just a little from each sponsor, but make your money with the sum of all sales.
But I don't want to sign up with 100, 200 or more sponsors. I think it must be possible to earn a good money by promiting just a handfull good sites. Or is it an impossible wish?

[Useless]

Originally Posted by Celdric

Lassiter, tell that the sponsors. I'm since a half year in the business now and today after looking at countless sponsor programs it appears to me that there is to much massware on the market which is almost impossible to sell. And each week sponsors are throwing more of this stuff on the market.

Modern sponsors have educated themselves on traffic generation or have hired those who know how to do it. You won't see many sponsors anymore who you aren't competing against you for the same traffic. But that's business. If they can sell their product themselves, that makes them all the smarter.

Originally Posted by Celdric

I think it must be possible to earn a good money by promiting just a handfull good sites. Or is it an impossible wish?

Even if you are signed up to 100 sponsors, you'll see that it's only a handful which make you any money. Once you know which ones seem to convert best for you, put more effort in to promoting them. Just never limit yourself to only one or two.

[tickler]

Originally Posted by lassiter

Only *very* specialized niche sites (like, say, Filipino transsexual foot fetish domination in graveyards) are gonna do consistently better, and even then only if you can drive the proper traffic to the site.

Originally Posted by Celdric

But I don't want to sign up with 100, 200 or more sponsors. I think it must be possible to earn a good money by promiting just a handfull good sites. Or is it an impossible wish?

I promote micro-niche sites much like lassiter suggested. But, I needed to search through 100s of sponsors(1000s of sites) to find the best in each of the various micro-niches.

Most of the general industrial porn type sites I don't even bother with because the surfer can find tons of free stuff. Even the more general niches I want to see less than 1:500 before I push any heavy traffic to it.

[Celdric]

Modern sponsors have educated themselves on traffic generation or have hired those who know how to do it. You won't see many sponsors anymore who you aren't competing against you for the same traffic. But that's business. If they can sell their product themselves, that makes them all the smarter.

I agree. Although it's difficult sometimes. I think that no sponsor can ignore a profitable niche. They are forced to jump on the train, even when it means competing for the same traffic.

Well, that's okay as long as they are really serve the niche with more than just a matching domain name. There are still too many sponsors who have sensational looking niche sites in their lists, but no content inside to promote these sides.

I mean hard to imagine that they think that webmasters say "...okay, they tricked me in, but because I'm already here I will drop my plans and promote one of their other sides..."

Anyway, searching for good sponsors demands actually a big part of my worktime. Is that normal? Hey, if I had a wish free, I would drop even a night with Claudia Schiffer for a big list of sponsors approved and found usefull by successful veterans.

Originally Posted by tickler

I promote micro-niche sites much like lassiter suggested. But, I needed to search through 100s of sponsors(1000s of sites) to find the best in each of the various micro-niches.

Micro-niches, well, surely profitable. But my domain name is Sexworld. Not related to any niche. I can offer asian content (it's a tw domain) or all niche content in my opinion.
It's a litte off topic, but did you see any good Indian ones on your search for sponsors?