Affiliate Marketing is in the midst of a radical transformation.
Those who want others to send them trafffic are beginning to understand they will have to earn it with TRUST. To observe the sudden and enormous success of Trusted Service Providers like Technorati & FLICKR, it’s clear that Google and other Powerful Influencers of Thought are pushing hard to legitimize e-commerce and take the Web back from the unscrupulous Makers-of-a-Quick-Buck who’ve brought things to this nearly ruined state.
Though always under a moral cloud in the eyes of many, Adult Affiliate Programs and Service Providers are eager to show they understand and are prepared to play by the Rules.
Like no other industry of its magnitude, it is not difficult to take a temperature of the Online Porn Business. Though the industry’s top line exceeds $100 Billion, and the companies that provide the product of pornography are spread throughout the world, it seems all of it convenes daily on a Webmaster BBS called charmingly “gofuckyourself.com“. Here on GFY, as insiders call it, billionaire titans of porn rub elbows with pimply geek programmers. The tone for most of the day, is pure chaos. Daily there is “drama” — this one accuses that one, this one’s a thief, that one’s a whore — and so on. More than once I have heard it likened to the Roman Colisseum. It is just like that, but stranger for being virtual. Behind their nicknames or “NICs”, the players engage a chess game where the moves are made not with chesspieces but with posts and bumps. Whom did you bump, who bumped you, who went unbumped, whose response was oddly chilly this morning, why is so-and-so sporting the sig of that program, why does so-and-so have no sig, who got banned — these are questions that pump traffic through the veins of the world’s largest adult webmaster board.
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