Sean,

You'll probably never get it, but when Basschick or Longboardjim or Gaystoryman or countless other experienced regulars here say something about traffic and what works... they're speaking from experience, based on testing, trial and error, and years of experience.

Basschick in particular has been working in this field since you were in junior high school, and I know at least some of the other regulars here have been in the industry that long or longer. You don't hear them bullshitting about what they don't know, and that's one of the reasons people respect them.

You, on the other hand, are nearly always simply blowing out your ass when you speak.

A lot of what works in marketing -- ANY marketing, adult or otherwise -- is completely counterintuitive. That's why testing is crucial. While we can't generalize much from direct mail to Internet marketing, the one thing we *can* generalize between the two is often what you might guess will work best is dead wrong, and only experience shows what actually works.

Abraham Lincoln once said "It's better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt." I think that perhaps you could do very well to listen to his advice.