Blogs, Tube Sites, TGPs, Link Lists, Etc...

Has anyone else noticed that we as an industry appear to be heading towards a totally closed off mindset when it comes to traffic generation?

Im seeing more and more sites opening that are becoming totally closed for submissions and only being made available to in-house traffic generation sources.

I must admit we have been doing this as a company to and started doing so late last year, we have around 80 paysites right now that are not part of any affiliate program that are generating revenues from pure search engine traffic, some converting higher than our better converting affiliate program paysites.

With tube sites starting to gain massive momentum in terms of traffic and exposure.

Also blogs are still really popular right now too and a lot of affiliate webmasters are sending traffic from their blogs that is converting, despite the need to add daily posts to them.

Are we heading towards a totally inclusive only traffic generating mindset in the industry, where whatever traffic we generate as webmasters, we keep for ourselves?

Have new sources of 'public' traffic become so over-used by webmasters that we have had to turn towards in-house traffic generation over the past 2-3 years?

Regards,

Lee

I think what you are seeing is a shift in paradigm. Keeping "old" traffic sites like TGPs open to general submissions is asking for a boatload of work with no real compensation - it all works a LOT better if you open those type of sites to your partners only. As for "new" traffic sites (like tubes, blogs, etc), its up to you to leverage these traffic arenas and make the most of it because they are not going away.

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Originally Posted by HunkMoneyLuke

I think what you are seeing is a shift in paradigm. Keeping "old" traffic sites like TGPs open to general submissions is asking for a boatload of work with no real compensation - it all works a LOT better if you open those type of sites to your partners only. As for "new" traffic sites (like tubes, blogs, etc), its up to you to leverage these traffic arenas and make the most of it because they are not going away.

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luke,

good point, maybe webmasters are beginning to realize that the way of open submissions was to much work. I know when i closed open submissions on CumSoda traffic became much more productive and it also allowed me to concentrate on other aspects of my business.

Regards,

Lee.

Gee thanks guys...:crybaby:

This isn't good news for us newbies now is it?! One of the hardest parts of being an affiliate I find is trying to find someplace to promote your sponsors product, e.g. tgps - mpgs. I have noticed that many of the usual resources have become more and more inclusive.

But I have a question...If this is the growing trend isn't bound to bite sponsors in the ass? I would think that after awhile the pool from which surfers choose their porn from will start to get kinda stale.

Part of the excitement for me is the search for porn, if it ends up with just a few big-assed free sites promoting the same content over and over, well...yawn.

as won't this start to discourage affiliates from signing up to promote a sponsor if they learn that there is no place to submit their galleries to try and push traffic to their sponsors and get sign-ups?

I apologize if I didn't get my point across appropriately.

maxx68 - don't be discouraged so quickly. Its really not hard to get partner accounts at most TGP sites, all you have to do is show that you are an honest gallery maker that is able to produce good quality galleries. Then once you are a partner, you make sure you don't fuck them over with redirects, funky spyware javascript, etc....and you will keep your account.

You have to realise that the internet is a constantly changing and evolving scene, and you have to take advantage of those changes by being ahead of the curve, not behind it. Two years ago, sites like xtube, digg, delicious, stumbleupon, etc, did not exist - now they are multimillion dollar businesses. There are so many things coming up, if you are able to take advantage of just one small advance, you can be sitting on millions.

thanks for the words of encouragement HunkMoneyLuke, I appreciate it.