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depends on the niche. For high volume, low commercial interest sites (eg. video game blog, torrent site) this might be ok. Direct sales/affiliate/patreon income
by Jack000 8y ago
depends on the niche. For high volume, low commercial interest sites (eg. video game blog, torrent site) this might be ok. Direct sales/affiliate/patreon income will still be more profitable for smaller niche sites.
the problem with mining is that it only rewards time on site, rather than the value you derive from visiting the site.
- dgzl 8y agoI don't quite understand your last paragraph there...
- Jack000 8y agoif your site is for example, one of those curated design tools popular on producthunt, a successful interaction would be your user quickly leaving the site because they found what they needed. With mining this behavior is not rewarded, and website owners are incentivized to provide a convoluted or rehosted ux (eg. outline.com) so you don't leave the site. This is possibly worse than intrusive advertising.