{"id":516,"date":"2007-09-18T12:32:05","date_gmt":"2007-09-18T02:32:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.msnaughty.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/18\/good-vibrations-in-financial-trouble\/"},"modified":"2007-09-18T12:32:05","modified_gmt":"2007-09-18T02:32:05","slug":"good-vibrations-in-financial-trouble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/18\/good-vibrations-in-financial-trouble\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Vibrations In Financial Trouble"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2007\/09\/07\/BUI8RVKVA.DTL\" target=\"blank\">SFGate<\/a> reports that adult store Good Vibrations is having financial difficulties and apparently the internet is to blame. It seems they can&#8217;t compete now that Amazon has started to sell sex toys. They&#8217;re also blaming Google and it&#8217;s nasty new algorithm which stuffed up their listings (tell me about it!) and subsequent sales.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, <a href=\"http:\/\/shop.libida.com\/shop\/?Affiliate=sfw\">Libida.com<\/a> says they also had trouble with Google but overcame it by becoming &#8220;leaner&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>There are a squillion DIY adult stores now operating on the net but very few of them have put their hand up and said &#8220;Yes, we&#8217;re just for women!&#8221; It&#8217;s a pity that GoodVibes has hit problems because they were one of those few. Unfortunately they never offered an affiliate program so I have never promoted them on my many sites and I would suspect that a lack of coverage via affiliates has dented their online business.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SFGate reports that adult store Good Vibrations is having financial difficulties and apparently the internet is to blame. It seems they can&#8217;t compete now that Amazon has started to sell sex toys. They&#8217;re also blaming Google and it&#8217;s nasty new algorithm which stuffed up their listings (tell me about it!) and subsequent sales. Interestingly, Libida.com says they also had trouble with Google but overcame it by becoming &#8220;leaner&#8221;. There are <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/18\/good-vibrations-in-financial-trouble\/\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[918],"class_list":["post-516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sex-toys","tag-sex-toys"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}