How to Promote Sites Besides Gallery Submissions

[PornFact]

Hi all! It's about 3 months since I started submitting 1 gallery a day as my part time work.. Recently I'm earning $250 to $350 a week so I must say that it was improved a bit.

And now, here are some questions for all of the gurus out there.. |goodidea
- Besides gallery submissions.. How can I promote the affiliates that I'm promoting?
- What type of site do you suggest for me to develop?
- Also, can I do this without any knowledge of SEO or even programming skills to improve my SE ranking?

I will really appreciate if you guys will share some infos and tips about this.

Thanks in advance.

[Greenguy]

Since you're already making galleries, Free Sites would be a good fit, since they are (in their most basic form) 2 gallery pages with a warning & main page in front of them (poke around the Link Lists & Getting Listed forum for more info & examples)

[PornFact]

Originally Posted by Greenguy

Since you're already making galleries, Free Sites would be a good fit, since they are (in their most basic form) 2 gallery pages with a warning & main page in front of them (poke around the Link Lists & Getting Listed forum for more info & examples)

Thanks a lot.. I really appreciate it. A few questions though..
Is making Freesites converts better than submitting galleries? I mean, in terms of advantages.. Besides having a warning page, main page and 2 galleries.. Are freesites traffic rely on the site that they've submitted alone or are there other ways that it generates traffic like SE or something? In short.. What are the advantages that a Freesite can do that a gallery can't??

[ecchi]

Originally Posted by PornFact

Is making Freesites converts better than submitting galleries?

As a rule, yes.

Originally Posted by PornFact

Are freesites traffic rely on the site that they've submitted alone or are there other ways that it generates traffic like SE or something?

You get some SE traffic, but not a lot (unless you work at it, but in my opinion -and some may disagree- you can make better money making more sites that spending the same time tweaking your free sites and fighting for SE traffic).

Also remember that free sites can be made of two of your existing galleries, so half the work is already done for you.

[Greenguy]

I have no number to back this claim up (and it depends on each person's marketing skills) but I feel that free Sites, while they have much less traffic, convert better overall because of the amount of ads (4 pages as opposed to 1) & the quality of traffic form Link Lists (and yes, I am very biased - lol)

There are SE benefits if you know what you're doing (or get lucky every now & then like me) as Link Lists tend to have more pages & text, which means more SE spiders (my opinion only)

[docholly]

Another way to look for other sources of revenue as well as info on freesites, traffic etc is to attend OTB (see the link for radio on the menu above) it's every Saturday at 12n PST (3pm EST) lots of valuable information is presented there each week and a good way to get to know other webmasters. also on Wednesdays at 11pm EST (8pm PST) there is an SEO chat (no radio) that is text only where you can learn how to tweak a little on your sites before submitting them.

and if you really wanna know whats' going on in the wonder world of webmastering.. attend the weekly tuesday night radio show (see above link too) where you'll find out that Jim has dogs and other interesting bits of news and opinion.

[Greenguy]

...and let's not forget about hubs (basically a page/site that lists only your stuff, fed by traffic from your other sites & galleries)

[Linkster]

A more important point to take into consideration with Free sites vs Galleries - the cost to you for bandwidth.
While the traffic from a link list is much higher quality (just do a search in Google for high value keywords and youll usually see link lists listed first) and converts at a much better rate, the traffic is a lot less than what you would expect from a full blown submission routine with galleries. That means less traffic cost on your end for better results - just makes economic sense

[PornFact]

Great words guys! I really appreciate this.

Learned a lot in this thread alone..

Ok.. A few more questions.. heh

I'm currently submitting movie galleries.. (using sponsors free hosting so no prob with the bandwidth cost)

In the freesites.. Are movie galleries converts better than picture galleries??

Is it advisable that I use only 1 model for the 2 galleries or it doesn't matter if I use a different model for each galleries?

[Greenguy]

The sponsor hosting might be a problem, since a lot of Link Lists have banned any & all free hosting. So if you're going to do free sites, you'll need your own hosting.

I've seen people use both methods - continuous pics/movies & different series pics/movies for each gallery. As long as they match the niche, like blondes having sex & not 1 page of BBW's & one page of Asians, you'll be safe.

[Beaver Bob]

free sites convert better for me than galleries do, it just takes a little longer, its not as fast.

[juggernaut]

I have to say I was amazed when I first started with freesites. I was only pushing my own site and thought that freesites were crazy to do over galleries. I could not believe that someone looking for free porn would take a free site over a gallery. Lets face it, 2 or 3 clicks to get the free porn (i thought) would be a set back.
I ran a test. I made some FS and some Gals. 99% of my site's sign ups came from the FS. Then I read someplace that people who surf FS are more seasoned and more picky. Don't know how true that is, but either way FS work better for me.

[spookyx]

Originally Posted by PornFact

- Also, can I do this without any knowledge of SEO or even programming skills to improve my SE ranking?

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[webgurl]

That reminds me .... I haven't done the free site thing in almost
3 years I would like to try it again .
My chances of being listed is going to be very slim now

[AdorableAudrey]

Hmmm, I am kind of surprised the only alternative to galleries being discussed here is freesites. Don't forget blogs, review sites, link hubs, there are tons of different things to do to promote.

Heck, I was out pimping myself with trading cards for my site all weekend! (Though, I don't know how well that would work for affiliate marketers vs. solo webgirls... hehehe)

[walrus]

Ya don't forget about blogging. Personally, I see a lot of synergy in building a couple galleries, turning them into freesites and then writing about it in your blog...linking of course to your freesite and hub.

[LowryBigwood]

Originally Posted by AdorableAudrey

Hmmm, I am kind of surprised the only alternative to galleries being discussed here is freesites. Don't forget blogs, review sites, link hubs, there are tons of different things to do to promote.

Heck, I was out pimping myself with trading cards for my site all weekend! (Though, I don't know how well that would work for affiliate marketers vs. solo webgirls... hehehe)

Good points.

Also, you can join toplists, banner exchanges, try your hand at PPC?
You could advertise your url on tangible products and give them away free, although I've never tried this.

[Wazza]

Another thing in FS's favour is that, even though some LLs want you to be a partner, you can count the number that want money from you on one hand (or maybe two)

[digifan]

That's a good read

[PornFact]

Thanks for the inputs guys.. I just hope that you bear with me with stupid q's about this.. heh.. I just need to start somewhere besides gallery submissions and I'm very glad that people here share their knowledge.

At the moment. I'm having no prob with the free hosting that my sponsor is offering.. But I'm interested purchasing one though..

I must say that this project needs a dedicated hosting right? If so, how much is the estimated bandwidth (GB) burned for this per month??

How many freesites do I have to make for a week in order to have a good start??

[PornFact]

Originally Posted by AdorableAudrey

Hmmm, I am kind of surprised the only alternative to galleries being discussed here is freesites. Don't forget blogs, review sites, link hubs, there are tons of different things to do to promote.

Heck, I was out pimping myself with trading cards for my site all weekend! (Though, I don't know how well that would work for affiliate marketers vs. solo webgirls... hehehe)

I really love to try different ways of marketing but my prob is that I don't have any knowledge in programming and don't know how to start those sites.

Are there any site that offers guides to develop these sites?? What knowledge should be needed, $ needed, skills, etc..

[spookyx]

Originally Posted by PornFact

I really love to try different ways of marketing but my prob is that I don't have any knowledge in programming and don't know how to start those sites.

Are there any site that offers guides to develop these sites?? What knowledge should be needed, $ needed, skills, etc..

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[LowryBigwood]

Originally Posted by PornFact

At the moment. I'm having no prob with the free hosting that my sponsor is offering.. But I'm interested purchasing one though..

I must say that this project needs a dedicated hosting right? If so, how much is the estimated bandwidth (GB) burned for this per month??

How many freesites do I have to make for a week in order to have a good start??

If you're going to be doing freesites and not galleries on your new host, you can probably start out with a cheap virtual hosting plan and upgrade it as you grow your traffic. This is MUCH cheaper than a dedicated server. You can get a small starter account for around 6-7 bucks a month. Then just bump it up as you grow. At least that is what I did.

As far as howmany freesites a week to build, I would say a good rule of thumb is one freesite a day, everyday.

[ecchi]

Originally Posted by PornFact

At the moment. I'm having no prob with the free hosting that my sponsor is offering.. But I'm interested purchasing one though........But I'm interested purchasing one though..How many freesites do I have to make for a week in order to have a good start??

Running free sites on free hosts is not going to work. The majority of link lists won't list sites on free hosts, and there are not enough that do to get you the traffic you need to make more than a few cents.

As to how many you need to make, well that depends on how much you want to earn. Most of the big sites limit you to one submission a day, so one site a day is a good target to aim for. But if this is in addition to TGP galleries, you may not have enough time to do that until you have a goodly number of templates created.

Originally Posted by PornFact

Are there any site that offers guides to develop these sites?? What knowledge should be needed, $ needed, skills, etc..

I have posted these links before, but as you are new:
Other ways to get traffic: http://www.free-internet-porn.com/we...-traffic.shtml

Getting good search engine traffic: http://www.free-internet-porn.com/we...-engines.shtml

Tool for posting to search engines: http://www.free-internet-porn.com/we...ine-post.shtml

However do be aware that site has not been updated in a couple of years, and if you go to the main index (http://www.free-internet-porn.com/we...s/content.html) you are going to find a few things are out of date (for example it talks about getting a TGP on a free host listed on link lists, which was fine when the article was written, but nowadays most link lists won't list sites on free hosts).

Originally Posted by PornFact

I don't have any knowledge in programming

Then I suggest you learn. It will take you a weekend to learn HTML and if you are writing your code yourself you will find you can do a lot more and make a lot more money if you know HTML.

And although you don't need to know any type of CGI programming for free sites and TGP galleries, you will do if you want to go even further. So if you have time I suggest you also learn Perl. It will take you a weekend to learn the basics, but several weekends to learn as much as you need to know to write really good CGI programs.

[ecchi]

Originally Posted by AdorableAudrey

Heck, I was out pimping myself with trading cards for my site all weekend! (Though, I don't know how well that would work for affiliate marketers vs. solo webgirls... hehehe)

Quite well. Over here in England we used to have several trade fairs every year, aimed at people who buy from sex shops (nowadays only one organiser left, who does one fair every six months). I leave piles of leaflets on the tables around the stage and bars in the fair, and at the rail station beside the venue. I get a reasonable increase in traffic for a few weeks after each fair.