What's your main source of traffic?

Ronzo · 2006-12-16, 07:47 PM

Just got back into the business after a 10-month layoff to pursue a mainstream internet project which was more than a full-time effort. Prior to leaving the business, I was submitting galleries to TGPs... got 3 or 4 of them into TheHun over the same number of weeks. The hit counter went crazy, but sales were few and far between... but at least there were sales. No big surprise here... I've always been aware that TGP traffic was of poor quality. However, the landscape of the business has changed a bit and now TGP submitting seems to be an even bigger pain than it was before. Is it worth the effort? Would like to know how many people ignore this effort completely in favor of other methods? And, what those other methods are? Have been working hard at SEO, but the rewards of that aren't imminent.

alessandro · 2006-12-17, 08:47 AM

Currently my main source of traffic is SEs. I know that's not the best thing and I'll work on changing that.

As for your question related to SEO, it does pay off in the end if you do it right away ( no spamming, solid link trade partners etc. ) but I do no recommend anyone to live off just se traffic, because most of the time SE rankings are volatile.

DJilla · 2006-12-17, 08:50 AM

IMHO, what choices do you have? Galleries, free sites, text links, forums, etc. I don't think there is a "magic bullet" these days. Its hard work on all the above that get you sales and the cumulative content of your site/submissions over time that will bring in sales.

nekrom · 2006-12-17, 09:32 AM

Se, toplist & bought traffic these are my Primary sources.

-N

Papa · 2006-12-17, 09:56 AM

You forgot spamming Usenet and using hitbots hahahahahahahaha

Nekrom, signup to our stuff (you didn't do it yet)

Plim-Don · 2006-12-17, 09:09 PM

My main sorce of traffic is se and spamming nessageboards cause i just can't see no other way.

virgohippy · 2006-12-17, 09:25 PM

My main source is SE traffic, though lately bookmark traffic has started to become a barely noticible presence in my stats... but that's probably because I haven't been building enough freesites lately.

Before that it was probably hoes/LOR/gremlin's pointed to my freesites.

Mr Exotic · 2006-12-17, 11:10 PM

Mine are link list traffic to my free sites and tgp traffic to my galleries, then se traffic to both of those. Starting a linklist to get some bookmarker, SE, and link trade traffic.

SheepGuy · 2006-12-18, 02:42 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Plim-Don

My main sorce of traffic is se and spamming nessageboards cause i just can't see no other way.

Can I borrow $20?

j3sUS183 · 2006-12-18, 02:44 AM

Galleries

SheepGuy · 2006-12-18, 02:56 AM

Just kidding about the $20, I need more than that

Seriously, one of the benefits of being around a while is bookmark traffic, don't know if they buy much, maybe they just like the free stuff

I get traffic from trades and SE's as well. Top lists are OK too, I don't use a lot of them, but they're ok when you're starting something new that has a good eye catching title & description.
I have a lot of feeder AVS sites that all link to my LL and have links inside the protected pages as well as outside, so that's good for hits.
Gotta mix it up, don't rely on any one thing coz if that one thing disappears you're fucked

tina99 · 2006-12-29, 10:45 PM

You can use your rss feed to promote your site in rss directories

Flex · 2006-12-29, 11:02 PM

Porn bumper stickers

Halfdeck · 2006-12-30, 03:45 AM

SEO is a long term thing, and in the end I see it as a time sink unless I have an ultra sticky site.

I have single blog posts that make sales every week, and an entire site that just sits there and burn BW.

SaucyPanties · 2006-12-30, 05:20 AM

My husband has a couple of sites and I have my own, our search terms are fantastic with Google, I manage 90% of all traffic through search engines and conversions are good but when you are searching for worn, used or dirty panties, your not exactly looking for much else... I am hoping to have a go at freesites myself and branch out during 2007. Search engine traffic is great but if you get used to an income based on what Google sends you just one blip and it is all gone. I am going to focus 100% on non search engine traffic and consider that whatever it sends me for my new project will be a bonus, for the first 12 months at least..

jonnydoe · 2006-12-31, 01:29 AM

Has nobody mentioned blogging...not my current cup of tea but google loves it right now and the conversions are supposed to be as good as or better than LL traffic.

Papa · 2006-12-31, 09:55 AM

Nekrom, you forgot Zango

jonnydoe · 2006-12-31, 11:24 AM

ur fucking kidding right?

Quote:

Originally Posted by Papa

Nekrom, you forgot Zango

RamCharger · 2006-12-31, 04:50 PM

I'm actually getting some good traffic out of Google and other SEs. No sales yet (unfortunately), but considering how long my site has been around (a few weeks) it's encouraging to see the amount of traffic coming in from them. SEO really isn't as much as a pain in the ass as everyone makes it out to be. There are just two things you need to really pay attention to when building a website: character encoding (iso-8859-1 in my case) and doctype (XHTML 1.0 Transitional in my case). Make sure your site at validator.w3.org (e.g. http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=www.adultpicweb.com) and the search engines will be more than happy to index your site. Unfortunately, exactly how long your site will remain at the top of any heap in terms of results is extermely unpredictable (I've seen my site be at the top of some results for a little while then just disappear).

Traffic trading is where the majority of my traffic seems to come from though, but its extremely painful though as some people seem to try and yank my chain with hit bots and other crap. I currently have my system set to obey findtrades, but I really am starting to think about making it exclusive to find trades. Note: if you're looking into traffic trading backends I'm actually thinking of not recommending ePower Trader (I'm actually thinking of replacing it) because some of the numbers that it's giving me and some of behavior it's reporting make no sense.

RSS also does seem to be yielding a lot of return traffic for me so that's something to think about.

u-Bob · 2007-01-01, 03:23 PM

SEO and bought traffic (mostly from trafficadept and trafficholder).

u-Bob · 2007-01-01, 03:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by RamCharger

Traffic trading is where the majority of my traffic seems to come from though, but its extremely painful though as some people seem to try and yank my chain with hit bots and other crap. I currently have my system set to obey findtrades, but I really am starting to think about making it exclusive to find trades.

instead of trading traffic, buy/sell from/to one of the trafficbrokers. Trafficholder for example does a very good job at filtering out the cheaters...

Linkster · 2007-01-01, 08:49 PM

I get all my traffic from adult wm boards - mostly the surfers and wm-wanna-bes

FisHY · 2007-01-03, 09:36 PM

My main source is also SEs. I stopped submitting about a year ago. It is too much work for me with bad result. I do know someone that makes a fortune from submitting galleries.

SheepGuy · 2007-01-04, 02:04 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by The_Adventure

My main source is also SEs. I stopped submitting about a year ago. It is too much work for me with bad result. I do know someone that makes a fortune from submitting galleries.

LOL! Read Linkster's post just above yours

Paul&John · 2007-01-04, 04:30 AM

Galleries, however they aren't making the most money for me

2006-12-16, 07:47 PM	#1
Ronzo WHO IS FONZY!?! Don't they teach you anything at school? Join Date: Dec 2006 Posts: 40	What's your main source of traffic? Just got back into the business after a 10-month layoff to pursue a mainstream internet project which was more than a full-time effort. Prior to leaving the business, I was submitting galleries to TGPs... got 3 or 4 of them into TheHun over the same number of weeks. The hit counter went crazy, but sales were few and far between... but at least there were sales. No big surprise here... I've always been aware that TGP traffic was of poor quality. However, the landscape of the business has changed a bit and now TGP submitting seems to be an even bigger pain than it was before. Is it worth the effort? Would like to know how many people ignore this effort completely in favor of other methods? And, what those other methods are? Have been working hard at SEO, but the rewards of that aren't imminent.

2006-12-17, 08:50 AM	#3
DJilla You can now put whatever you want in this space :) Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 525	IMHO, what choices do you have? Galleries, free sites, text links, forums, etc. I don't think there is a "magic bullet" these days. Its hard work on all the above that get you sales and the cumulative content of your site/submissions over time that will bring in sales. __________________ Submit Free Sites, Blogs, Movies, TGP's, Triple XXX Info

2006-12-17, 09:32 AM	#4
nekrom Are you sure this is the Sci-Fi Convention? It's full of nerds! Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Australia Posts: 263	Se, toplist & bought traffic these are my Primary sources. -N __________________ The afp ownz all your base.

2006-12-17, 09:56 AM	#5
Papa Kids are great, Appu. You can teach them to hate the things you hate and they practically raise themselves now-a-days, you know, with the internet and all Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 190	You forgot spamming Usenet and using hitbots hahahahahahahaha Nekrom, signup to our stuff (you didn't do it yet) __________________ Make 700$ per sale Deluxe Jap sex dolls

2006-12-17, 09:25 PM	#7
virgohippy Madness is like gravity. All it takes is a little... push. Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: California Posts: 1,679	My main source is SE traffic, though lately bookmark traffic has started to become a barely noticible presence in my stats... but that's probably because I haven't been building enough freesites lately. Before that it was probably hoes/LOR/gremlin's pointed to my freesites. __________________ ~Warm and Fuzzy.

2006-12-17, 08:47 AM	#2
alessandro I don't have to be careful. I got a gun Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: The 3rd planet from the sun :) Posts: 365	Currently my main source of traffic is SEs. I know that's not the best thing and I'll work on changing that. As for your question related to SEO, it does pay off in the end if you do it right away ( no spamming, solid link trade partners etc. ) but I do no recommend anyone to live off just se traffic, because most of the time SE rankings are volatile.

2006-12-17, 09:09 PM	#6
Plim-Don Rock stars ... is there anything they don't know? Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 19	My main sorce of traffic is se and spamming nessageboards cause i just can't see no other way.

2006-12-17, 11:10 PM	#8
Mr Exotic rifuckingdiculous Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Cornfield in Indiana Posts: 532	Mine are link list traffic to my free sites and tgp traffic to my galleries, then se traffic to both of those. Starting a linklist to get some bookmarker, SE, and link trade traffic. __________________ Submit Free Sites/Galleries

2006-12-18, 02:44 AM	#10
j3sUS183 They have the Internet on computers, now? Join Date: Jul 2005 Posts: 142	Galleries

2006-12-18, 02:56 AM	#11
SheepGuy It's the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Canada Posts: 2,527	Just kidding about the $20, I need more than that Seriously, one of the benefits of being around a while is bookmark traffic, don't know if they buy much, maybe they just like the free stuff I get traffic from trades and SE's as well. Top lists are OK too, I don't use a lot of them, but they're ok when you're starting something new that has a good eye catching title & description. I have a lot of feeder AVS sites that all link to my LL and have links inside the protected pages as well as outside, so that's good for hits. Gotta mix it up, don't rely on any one thing coz if that one thing disappears you're fucked __________________ If the Environment was a bank, they would have saved it by now.

2006-12-29, 10:45 PM	#12
tina99 If something goes wrong at the plant, blame the guy who can't speak English Join Date: Nov 2006 Posts: 32	You can use your rss feed to promote your site in rss directories __________________ HentaiBoss Adult Art Network Cool RSS Feeds for all their sites

2006-12-29, 11:02 PM	#13
Flex A woman is like beer. They look good, they smell good, and you'd step over your own mother just to get one! Join Date: Dec 2006 Posts: 51	Porn bumper stickers __________________ At least 5 trades a day keeps the doctors away.

2006-12-30, 03:45 AM	#14
Halfdeck You can now put whatever you want in this space :) Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: New Haven, CT Posts: 985	SEO is a long term thing, and in the end I see it as a time sink unless I have an ultra sticky site. I have single blog posts that make sales every week, and an entire site that just sits there and burn BW. __________________ Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiasm.

2006-12-30, 05:20 AM	#15
SaucyPanties No matter how good you are at something, there's always about a million people better than you Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 231	My husband has a couple of sites and I have my own, our search terms are fantastic with Google, I manage 90% of all traffic through search engines and conversions are good but when you are searching for worn, used or dirty panties, your not exactly looking for much else... I am hoping to have a go at freesites myself and branch out during 2007. Search engine traffic is great but if you get used to an income based on what Google sends you just one blip and it is all gone. I am going to focus 100% on non search engine traffic and consider that whatever it sends me for my new project will be a bonus, for the first 12 months at least.. __________________ Saucy Used Panties

2006-12-31, 01:29 AM	#16
jonnydoe Stupid risks make life worth living Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 381	Has nobody mentioned blogging...not my current cup of tea but google loves it right now and the conversions are supposed to be as good as or better than LL traffic. __________________ Adult Hosting Submission Programs Adult Sponsors

2006-12-31, 09:55 AM	#17
Papa Kids are great, Appu. You can teach them to hate the things you hate and they practically raise themselves now-a-days, you know, with the internet and all Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 190	Nekrom, you forgot Zango __________________ Make 700$ per sale Deluxe Jap sex dolls

2006-12-31, 04:50 PM	#19
RamCharger Shut up brain, or I'll stab you with a Q-tip! Join Date: May 2005 Location: Somewhere south of sanity. Posts: 110	I'm actually getting some good traffic out of Google and other SEs. No sales yet (unfortunately), but considering how long my site has been around (a few weeks) it's encouraging to see the amount of traffic coming in from them. SEO really isn't as much as a pain in the ass as everyone makes it out to be. There are just two things you need to really pay attention to when building a website: character encoding (iso-8859-1 in my case) and doctype (XHTML 1.0 Transitional in my case). Make sure your site at validator.w3.org (e.g. http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=www.adultpicweb.com) and the search engines will be more than happy to index your site. Unfortunately, exactly how long your site will remain at the top of any heap in terms of results is extermely unpredictable (I've seen my site be at the top of some results for a little while then just disappear). Traffic trading is where the majority of my traffic seems to come from though, but its extremely painful though as some people seem to try and yank my chain with hit bots and other crap. I currently have my system set to obey findtrades, but I really am starting to think about making it exclusive to find trades. Note: if you're looking into traffic trading backends I'm actually thinking of not recommending ePower Trader (I'm actually thinking of replacing it) because some of the numbers that it's giving me and some of behavior it's reporting make no sense. RSS also does seem to be yielding a lot of return traffic for me so that's something to think about. __________________ Adult Pic Web Adult Link Web

2007-01-01, 03:23 PM	#20
u-Bob Shut up brain, or I'll stab you with a Q-tip! Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 118	SEO and bought traffic (mostly from trafficadept and trafficholder). __________________ Payoneer Sponsors.

2007-01-01, 08:49 PM	#22
Linkster NO! Im not a female - but being a dragon, I do eat them. Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Sex Delta Posts: 5,084	I get all my traffic from adult wm boards - mostly the surfers and wm-wanna-bes __________________ Pussy Chompers Porn Links NSCash

2007-01-03, 09:36 PM	#23
FisHY Rock stars ... is there anything they don't know? Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: In Sydney Now Posts: 18	My main source is also SEs. I stopped submitting about a year ago. It is too much work for me with bad result. I do know someone that makes a fortune from submitting galleries. __________________ If you love GAY ASIAN, cum inside the new zBUCKz

2007-01-04, 04:30 AM	#25
Paul&John Trying is the first step towards failure Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 129	Galleries, however they aren't making the most money for me __________________ -50$ discount, promocode 'shittywork' Chameleon Tutorials,Tips&Tricks