The big question....Is traffic king?

[TheEnforcer]

Bullshit. Traffic is still king. Always has been and always will be. Just because more companies use pre-checked cross sales doesn't mean if you buuild it they will come.

[softball]

Originally Posted by TheEnforcer

Bullshit. Traffic is still king. Always has been and always will be. Just because more companies use pre-checked cross sales doesn't mean if you buuild it they will come.

This is not a chicken and egg situation here. Content always comes first and traffic seeks it out.
I do agree with Danny that there is a happy medium. But brute force traffic is worth very, very little. Its right up there with burned out vanilla content.
Its just a traffic jam and everyone hates traffic jams where I come from.

[Hell Puppy]

Originally Posted by TheEnforcer

Bullshit. Traffic is still king. Always has been and always will be. Just because more companies use pre-checked cross sales doesn't mean if you buuild it they will come.

Gimme a Britney Spears sex tape, and then let's revisit this discussion.

Pretty sure I'll have more traffic than I can handle very quickly.

[softball]

Originally Posted by Hell Puppy

Gimme a Britney Spears sex tape, and then let's revisit this discussion.

Pretty sure I'll have more traffic than I can handle very quickly.

Yup......

Traffic is king in good times. Content is king at the moment. Good traffic is easy to get. Good content is gold.
I think this is about to become evident to all the traffic rats on GFY.

[RawAlex]

Originally Posted by Hell Puppy

Gimme a Britney Spears sex tape, and then let's revisit this discussion.

Pretty sure I'll have more traffic than I can handle very quickly.

If nobody comes to the site, if nobody knows... then content is the king of the desert.

[Paul Markham]

Neither traffic nor content are king, sign ups at a profit and without making the person think he was ripped off is king.

You can send traffic and get them to sign up to crap. Try doing that for 8 years and see what happens. The surfer decides it's time to not spend money. Then all it needs is a clever guy to think of an idea to give the surfers free content in any quality and pay for it with adverts.

How long before that happens?

[gonzo]

Originally Posted by Paul Markham

Neither traffic nor content are king, sign ups at a profit and without making the person think he was ripped off is king.

You can send traffic and get them to sign up to crap. Try doing that for 8 years and see what happens. The surfer decides it's time to not spend money. Then all it needs is a clever guy to think of an idea to give the surfers free content in any quality and pay for it with adverts.

How long before that happens?

Kind of like your friends at Redtube?