Why hide the screenshots and rickshaw forums?

Draegan_sl said:

Unless you know an advertisement/marketing firm that will give a good rated contract for traffic, porn friendly ads are 4-6 times less than google ads on average.

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"Less than google" doesn't necessarily mean negative roi though... As long as the ads bring more revenue than the pageviews are costing, then aren't the views worth having? With the way you guys talk about this, you'd think it would be impossible for a porn site to make money, but clearly that isn't the case. Also, have you considered affiliate and CPA offers? I'm sure that plenty of those could give two shits about the traffic source since all they care about (and pay on) is conversions. It's understandable if it's just too much trouble for you to bother with, I mean, tossing up some adsense and forgetting about it is the easy way to go, but if you're actually trying to pull revenue out of the site, I can't believe that killing off traffic is helping to reach that goal.

I don't know what Draegan's intent is with the site. I assume he just views the ads as a way to pay for the site so the considerable expense isn't coming out of his pocket. If this move helps that happen, then so be it. I'm sure a porn site could manage to pull off a profit, but I am pretty sure also that any site offering up a selection of free images without actually being a "porn" site will have difficulties in making ends meet. I definitely don't want the site to turn into a porn site, and yet I don't want to lose the titties. I'm in a glass case of emotion.

well as long as the screenshots thread isn't gone, i am cool with it

Couldn't there just be separate SFW and NSFW screenshot areas?

Tuco_sl said:

It's really not complex, google bots seeing SS/RR = no ads = no website.

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Lame.

Mikhail Bakunin_sl said:

Couldn't there just be separate SFW and NSFW screenshot areas?

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Doesn't that defeat the purpose? It isn't as if the traffic in question was being generated by someone posting old EQ screenshots from Velious. The good work done by brave young men such as Wolfen and Fedor is the source of that, and I think we all know it.

It's cathartic to see that with all this chat about ad rev and numbers and such there are no shitty graphs being posted.

Wish it could have been based on donations instead of post count. I donated when rerolled.org first went up, but I'm a professional lurker. I do make it a point to occasionally click on ads, if its remotely interesting.

Barbarian_sl said:

It's cathartic to see that with all this chat about ad rev and numbers and such there are no shitty graphs being posted.

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Kaige_sl said:

You guys should change "See comments/suggestions" to "Seethis thread".

I know that sounds kind of stupidly obvious, but it makes it stick out more. I've had referral links several times before, and you'd be surprised how much adding something derpishly simple as "click here" improved results.

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You can not create links in forum titles. It's text only.

So I'm not a post virgin now ?
Must I feel something ?

Hi there btw

splok_sl said:

"Less than google" doesn't necessarily mean negative roi though... As long as the ads bring more revenue than the pageviews are costing, then aren't the views worth having? With the way you guys talk about this, you'd think it would be impossible for a porn site to make money, but clearly that isn't the case. Also, have you considered affiliate and CPA offers? I'm sure that plenty of those could give two shits about the traffic source since all they care about (and pay on) is conversions. It's understandable if it's just too much trouble for you to bother with, I mean, tossing up some adsense and forgetting about it is the easy way to go, but if you're actually trying to pull revenue out of the site, I can't believe that killing off traffic is helping to reach that goal.

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Affiliates and CPAs: That's what we are running now since google saw some titties. Revenue generated by those ads is at best 20-30% of google ads. If I wanted to maximize revenue, there are a ton of annoying things we can do. Giant popup ads that come up when you come to the site where you have to click "Continue to Rerolled.org". I can put advertisement after every 5 posts and if you don't want to see those you have to subscribe to Rerolled.org for $5/mo. I can shrink the forums to a certain width and put a nice siteskin on the forum too.

I know some of you think that putting the porn behind a wall is all of the sudden going to kill the community because a few people that saw a picture of a unicorn fucking a vampire suddenly wanted to contribute won't stick around now. But it's really not. The majority of the people on this site read a lot of the other sections of this forum.

Regarding Porn sites: Most porn sites require a subscription to access content. Others just host videos ripped from the internet and allow users to upload content. They also have actual porn advertisement which probably makes more money than other affiliate programs. I do not want to put porn ads on Rerolled because then the whole site becomes NSFW and then no one can see it at work.

Is posting 5 times really that difficult?

BurnemWizfyre_sl said:

Is posting 5 times really that difficult?

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It's scary to leave the bubble when you've sat for so many years inside it. Same way with life, really!

IMHO posting 5 times is less difficult than living in a bubble ...
Every one who played to bubble bobble knows that you can't even touch a bubble without blowing it, so living inside ... !

And sorry for my poor english, I'm doing my best (or less some will say).

The Black Hand_sl said:

Lame.

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Confirmation that TBH actually made it to the site? Can an admin verify? Would qualify the mutiny as 100% successful.

Draegan_sl said:

stuff

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Actually, I don't think it affects the community at all since anyone that's actually a part of the community isn't affected, but hey, you don't want input so no problem. I'll stop wasting both our time.

When did I say I don't want input? If I didn't want input I wouldn't of wasted my time typing all those words to you.

I'm pretty sure all you wrote was "stuff," Draegan.