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Originally posted by andymike@Jan 29 2005, 05:38 PM
I think it does both actually... Just enough free porn makes them join... to much makes them pop a load before signing up. I think we have sort of shot ourselves in the foot with the free stuff. We have to keep giving away so much to make them join. With these free sites the idea is to get them primed up for a good sponsor to convert it into a sale for us both.
There is def money to be made with free sites and branding names and selling off traffic. I have also noticed the quality of traffic coming from different free sites and how it varies. What I mean by that is the traffic from free sites that are bring in traffic and holding it like a community site is hotter the a hooker on the front row of a Baptist church. It converts steady sales, with fewer clicks. (For the most part) Where as traffic from a tgp/mgp takes more traffic to make the same number of sales. 
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good reply.
what i find most is that people who arent successful with freesites are the ones that dont squeeze money out of all the little drips of traffic. you can make money off of 404 if used properly.
i will not go into deep detail about how a freesite can be fully optimized, but if you abide by all the basic rules and be a little creative you can make even a small site successful.
and if you have the right amount of funding you can take a freesite and make it into a goldmine. however, with my own sites i have had to take a longer time to build them up since i did not have good start up capital.