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    Default Can my SM studio interfere with my traffic and placement?

    Hello, does anyone know if a Streamate studio can redistribute traffic/promotion the site gives between their models?

    I registered with a studio, but I don't work in the physical office or take part in the photoshoots anymore as I moved to another city. I still keep in touch with other models, though, and from what I know, I spend the most time online, my monthly gross earnings on SM are the second to third highest in the studio, I offer the widest range of services and I'm the only one using sound in free chat and not splitcamming. Nevertheless, I'm not even in the top 5 as it comes to the SM placement and my traffic sucks balls compared to everyone else's in the studio (maybe 5 people in free chat vs like the 20+ they have).

    Last week, I was putting in mad hours (12+a day) to see if it will help me raise my placement at least a bit. When I returned after the weekend, I found my room to be like an half a row lower than I left it and then I saw a fairly new girl from my studio who used to be 2 rows below me BOOM appear 2 rows higher than me even though it was her first day on after a vacation. I know it can
    hardly be possible, but it looked like the extra hours I put in somehow iproved someone else's placement instead of mine?

    I have top-notch connection and equipment, and the RTT for me and the studio is about the same, so it's either the studio interfering with my traffic (which would really suck because they still have 15 to 20% of what I make.
    Well, even if they just aren't promoting me the way they promote everyone else it sucks, because they're spending the money they take to advertise me on someone else) or me being a mutt ugly bitter conspiracy-obsessed paranoic who can't make a decent camgirl for her life. I could check how the things really are by starting a new acct with Dailypay or something, but frankly speaking I'm scared to. If I'm doing that bad with a 5-year-old account and like 12000 favs, what is it gonna be like to start it from a scratch given how hard camming got recently? =(

    Again, I'm really upset my last week's epic camming rush has failed so probably wrong and overreacting and whatnot - sorry for all the whining.
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    Default Re: Can my SM studio interfere with my traffic and placement?

    All those extra hours probably killed your placement. What it does is makes the average money per hour go down so you go way lower. I dropped a whole page when I put in a lot of time and made less per hour.

    If you use the same profile picture and a similar name with a new account guys will probably find you fast. Most of them seem to just look at the pics anyway.

    What percentage are you losing to the studio? It might be worth getting your own account since you don't take advantage of their facilities anyway.


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    Default Re: Can my SM studio interfere with my traffic and placement?

    The extra hours actually improved my hourly average (it turned out to be the time European guys get up and have a morning wank). That's why seeing my placement get worse was such a shock to me. GO figure
    As for the studio, I'm giving them 20 or 15% of my 30% depending on how much I've made that month. The only reason why I stick with them is that i'm afraid it might turn out they've actually been giving me some support and without it I'll be unable to make it even to my current position.

    Also, if SM want to be helpful, what about them posting the ACTUAL things that infulence the placement instead of misleading people into doing useless and potentially harmful BS.(((((
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    Quote Originally Posted by Sunnylexie View Post
    Also, if SM want to be helpful, what about them posting the ACTUAL things that infulence the placement instead of misleading people into doing useless and potentially harmful BS.(((((
    speaking as a studio model, a new girl can get one customer, that comes every single day and drops 100-s of $ on her and she will out-rank you any day of the week, by no merit of her own...I have stopped looking at were other models are placed based on x amount of work or luck, and have focused on my own situation...

    as for SM ranking look closely at your bit rate if it drops or spikes at times...I have had similar placing issues, it would be all over the place, it was due to the internet being slower than usual due to rain storms, this created lots of local problems and service was not consistent and this affected my placement horribly...

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    Default Re: Can my SM studio interfere with my traffic and placement?

    I was thinking the same thing as Laurie. The only real explanation sounds like the extra hours didn't pay off for your placement. You would have to be at least maintaining your normal amount of money averaged per hour or more to stay in the same place or move up. But you said you made more, so I don't know?

    Did you get any bad ratings? Ratings always really impact my placement.

    There's no real way to know exactly what it is or why other models are above you. Unless you are like significantly lower placed than you normally are, I probably wouldn't worry too much about it. A half a row lower isn't going to really matter much in terms of traffic to your room. And worrying about other models never pays off, it just makes you go crazy trying to figure things out. I used to stress about my placement all the time, even half a row so I know how you feel. But it's much less stressful to work once you quit paying such close attention to it. I still check, but unless I'm drastically dropping, I try not to think about it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by SarahTime View Post
    I was thinking the same thing as Laurie. The only real explanation sounds like the extra hours didn't pay off for your placement. You would have to be at least maintaining your normal amount of money averaged per hour or more to stay in the same place or move up. But you said you made more, so I don't know?

    Did you get any bad ratings? Ratings always really impact my placement.

    There's no real way to know exactly what it is or why other models are above you. Unless you are like significantly lower placed than you normally are, I probably wouldn't worry too much about it. A half a row lower isn't going to really matter much in terms of traffic to your room. And worrying about other models never pays off, it just makes you go crazy trying to figure things out. I used to stress about my placement all the time, even half a row so I know how you feel. But it's much less stressful to work once you quit paying such close attention to it. I still check, but unless I'm drastically dropping, I try not to think about it.
    THe thing that I'm CLUELESS what can be wrong with my room, regarding the ranking. My rating is 4.99, and the only serious issues I have are bitrate which is around 690 (but, from what I read on here, it shouldn'tbe the problem) and RTT, (but from what I can see looking at the studio gals, it hardly can be the problem, too?). I've been investing mad amounts of time and money into the room to just stay where I am, and at this point it seems like I have done all I could and just can't do any better so all is left to me is to sit and watch it sink. I need to figure out what I'm doing wrong before I move to a new account so I don't foul it up the same way.
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    Default Re: Can my SM studio interfere with my traffic and placement?

    Sometimes sm placement just does weird things
    In the past it has knocked me a few rows down for days-weeks when nothing changed in my hourly, ratings blah blah
    As long as your earning the same or more dont worry about it, it will eventually readjust itself
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