[Tigger]

I'm seeing some massive drops in VOD figures and last month was poor but this month is looking worse! - anyone else seeing this?

We know the net is full of free porn and hitting the niches / mirco niches generates the traffic but not the sales and it does make you wonder if people aren't searching for some mirco niche, then after looking at your site settling for some "generic" free porn !

At this stage I'm starting to wonder what you have to do to build vod sales

[jello]

Last month i had a good month in vod sales but probably just a coincidence. This month is normal in other words; bad.

My experience in microniches is not that great either in fact it`s the same thing.

I don`t believe that people can`t get the microniches for free, the other day i came across a "new" source of free porn and was amazed what kind of full length porn movies you can get. I mean virtually every niche was covered.

[Tigger]

I'm beginning to wonder if people don't start out looking for a specific model /niche/ video then once they click on the buying options then return back to the serps and setting for free options! either way I know right now my rankings are strong but sales figures are so poor its a joke

[jello]

Originally Posted by Tigger

I'm beginning to wonder if people don't start out looking for a specific model /niche/ video then once they click on the buying options then return back to the serps and setting for free options!

You don`t have to wonder about that, you can be pretty sure that`s the way they do it.

After working hard for a few years on my vod sites I'm to ranking high and SE traffic is great but sales are sad real sad.

[Tigger]

the frustrating thing is I would much soon market VOD than contacts but its the contacts thats holding the income levels. In the past I've always split my working week 50/50 but the rate vod is dropping I'm going to have to reduce this

[VoyGeorge]

My VOD with HotMovies is similarly down, maybe 1/3rd what it should be. Contacted my rep and he had his tech guys go over things to make sure there wasn't something wrong with the account. He didn't say "everyone is having a bad time" but I gather this may be the case after reading some threads on other forums.

I have not yet had the opportunity to go into the contacts whitelabel you passed on to me but it's something I need to do real fast. When things fall this far it's panic mode time, and I've been spending my days tying to boost up existing sites/pages to improve their performance, and no time for dabbling in anything new.

Well, at least summer is coming, and you can get a job at the nearby marina modelling underwear for the tourists from the UK. I'm looking at a job at Good Burger as the shake man.

[Tigger]

My VOD with HotMovies is similarly down, maybe 1/3rd what it should be. Contacted my rep and he had his tech guys go over things to make sure there wasn't something wrong with the account. He didn't say "everyone is having a bad time" but I gather this may be the case after reading some threads on other forums.

looks like we are hitting the same type of crap figures - I've just checked and I'm a third down on ave as well - I spoke to me rep and got a really lame response about people not spending, but I think its just down to to much free porn online

Whilst we can direct punters into niches all thats happening is they are turning to tubes to get there fix - whilst I don't want to say VOD is a dead model as I'm still making "some" cash from it, it gets to a stage when you have to address the cost of that traffic and if its worth putting the effort in to generating the sales when you could be focusing your efforts elsewhere, after all we only have 14 hour days to work with

Well, at least summer is coming, and you can get a job at the nearby marina modelling underwear for the tourists from the UK. I'm looking at a job at Good Burger as the shake man.

tourists from the UK with current exchange rates at almost 1 for 1 I don't think so

[VoyGeorge]

Originally Posted by Tigger

Whilst we can direct punters into niches all thats happening is they are turning to tubes

Well you know AEBN is partly responsible for it. They were among the first with pornotube. They created it to drive their own traffic, which of course they are free to do. But the model massively disrupted their affiliates' ability to compete on an even footing. They've tried to back-pedal and provide shorter videos and trailers but the damage was done. They got greedy, and we're all paying the price.

[Tigger]

I know, but lets be honest they may have been one of the first but they are not alone now

But I'm sure what they will be seeing is webmasters turning away from this as a viable business, after all I'm starting banging my head against the wall when you have rankings that take up 12/20 on G and still not getting sales

Edit - make that 11/20 but thats over 11 different sites ;o(

[VoyGeorge]

I take it traffic is holding steady on your sites? Or is traffic down as well?

[Tigger]

I had a blip last week whilst G was frigging around with Caffeine but its holding pretty solid really - in fact one of my cuckold sites is now 2nd on G.com for its main keyword.............but does it males sales, like bleeding frig it does

[VoyGeorge]

I mean are your uniques holding steady? Mine are the same, or even up slightly. Hasn't made a big dent on sales, though. Which means people are looking, but keeping their wallets in their pockets.

[Tigger]

yes uniques steady.............. sales down!