Why build an adult freesite?

[MorganGrayson]

Originally Posted by Nickatilynx

so you did listen to me in 1997...

;-)

Of course I did.

How could I not? You were right, you were concise...you were shouting.

[MorganGrayson]

OK. Linkback buttons.

This is for the index.html page. For this page, you should put 6 - 10 linksites. Opinions vary on what is a good number. What opinions *don't* vary on is which linksites to put on your index.html page. You put the biggest ones, the ones that are more or less guaranteed to send you traffic. (I'm not going to spam linksites here. I will give you a hand with that later, either in pm or by putting up the links to some of my freesites.) You always do two things: one, is check to make sure you've been listed, either by monitoring your inbox or by going to the linksite itself and checking. Some linksites have threads on certain message boards for you to ask the linkmaster why your site wasn't listed if it wasn't. Of course, the one thing I didn't mention is the most painfully obvious: read the linksites *rules* carefully. Make sure the linkback button or table is appropriate to the type of site you're submitting. Submit to the correct category, and for heaven's sake, write a good description. (More on that later.) The second thing your going to do is constantly monitor your traffic stats. Find out if the linksites you've submitted to are acutally sending you traffic. That's valuable real estate you've got on your index.html page, and any linksite that doesn't send you traffic doesn't belong on it. If you're not getting a huge amount of traffic, but you are getting some surfers (and if the rules of the linksite permit it) consider moving that linksite to a doorway page.

Doorways. Different entrances to your freesite that allow you to submit to more linksites. These would be your "second string" linksites, smaller ones that will still send you some traffic. Treat these people with respect, though. They work hard on their sites and someday just might become "big linksites." They're going to remember their regular submitters.

Don't name your doorway pages "index15.html." Most linksites consider that insulting, and justifiably so. "You had to go through fifteen fucking pages before you graced ME with your submission? The hell with you," is muttered often. (I used to own a linksite. A little, pretty one, of which I was very proud. I never expected to be on anyone's "index.html" page - but was very flattered and grateful if I was. I didn't like knowing I was with the crowd that was 23rd on the list. Yes, I did get an index23.html once. Hurt my wittle feelings.)

The way to avoid this is by using things like "enter.html," "entrance.html," "keyword.html," "anotherkeyword.html," and so on. Then, you switch to ".htm" and do the whole thing over again. Start *small* though, because you're going to be monitoring all these linkistes with the traffic stats your host gives you and paring the linksites down. If you continually get *no* traffic from a given linksite - stop submitting to it! You're just wasting your time. (Note: there are webmasters who will tell you that doing any of this is a waste of time. They'll say "just submit your index.html page to the big sites and be done with it." They have a point.)

DO NOT, by the way, use "index.htm" as one of your doorway pages. The big linksites got to be big linksites because they're run by very savvy webmasters. They'll ban you fast if you fuck with them. A submission to the big linksites should look like this: http://www.yourdomain.com/yoursite/ That's it. You don't have to put in the "index.html" part. A submission like that makes the big linksites know you followed the rules.

The table of linkbacks goes, of course, *above* your clear, easy to find, site entrance.

More to come. Have a nice day.

[MorganGrayson]

*bump*

[MorganGrayson]

*ditto*

[AdultAds]

This should be a *sticky* post in newbie forums. Thanks a bunch.

-AdultAds

[ReighlynnRaine]

This is a great thread!! Thanks Morgan!!

[MorganGrayson]

Originally Posted by ReighlynnRaine

This is a great thread!! Thanks Morgan!!

You're welcome, RR!