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Newbie
Webmaster Starter Kit
Traffic
- I Want More Please
As
you move around on adult webmaster boards you will see a lot of talk about
traffic. When webmasters talk about traffic they are talking about the
number of surfers who visit their sites. The fact that the talk of traffic
can be found almost daily on every webmaster board is an indication of
just how important traffic is to every webmaster.
Without
traffic you don't make sales, without the ability to get traffic you will
not succeed so understanding traffic, knowing where to get traffic, what
to do with it once you have it, and how to trade your traffic is vital
to your success.
First
let's look at where a new webmaster can find traffic.
Free
Sites
If
you are building free sites you will be able to get traffic from link
lists. The Greenguy is a very
well known example of a link list and there are many many more link lists
out on the net. When you have built a site you submit it to those link
lists and if your site meets the requirements of each list that you then
they may include your site in their listings.
Most
link lists require you to have a reciprocal link in place before you submit
your site. When you read each list's submission rules you will see what
form that recip must take. You will also see where on your site that recip
must be placed; most are happy to have their recip placed on your warning
page.
One
major point that you must be aware of is that most link lists only want
you to list them with 5 or so other lists and so to comply with that and
at the same time get your site listed on as many sites as possible you
will have to copy or mirror your warning page a number of times. Each
copy will have to be called by a different name and don't be tempted to
call those pages index1.html, index2.html because link lists don't like
it. It is better to name the page using a keyword appropriate to the site.
You
will find that some links lists will send you a lot of traffic while others
won't send much at all. It will be up to you to decided which ones are
productive and which are a waste of time. You will also find that some
lists send a lot of traffic to a particular niche and hardly any traffic
to others.
In
the resource section you will find a small table containing some of the
better link lists. Use this as the basis for your own custom list of places
to submit your sites to and keep searching for other lists.
TGP
Galleries
There
really are thousands of TGP lists out there. Some of the bigger ones only
take paid submissions so read their rules before you add their recip and
don't be in a hurry to pay for a listing. Wait until you are confident
in your selling techniques before considering paid listings.
In
the past TGP gallery builders have had a bad reputation and over time
the submission rules have become very restrictive. Make sure that you
read each TGP's rules before submitting to make sure that you comply with
their standards.
Some
TGPs do not require a recip so you should submit a page free of recips
to those lists. The majority of TGPs do require a recip, usually at the
top of the page so you will need to mirror your gallery a number of times.
The maximum number of recips you should put on a page is 4 and there is
at least one high traffic list that only wants to see its recip on the
page that you submit to it so be sure read their rules to avoid wasting
your time.
One
of the secrets to successful TGPing is to build your own list of TGPs
that send good, productive traffic. It takes time to compile such a list
but in the long term it will save you time and make you money. A list
like that becomes an asset and you should not expect other webmasters
to give their list away for nothing and you should not give yours away
either.
Over
in the Resource section you will find the basis for your list of productive
TGPs.
Search
Engines
Search
engines do not require a recip but to get a good listing you need to make
your page attractive to search engine spiders. Even before you start building
your site you need to decide what keywords or keyword phrases you want
to target and then work those keywords and phrases into your site's title
as well as into the text in the body of each page on the site. Do not
simply copy and paste the text from one page to the next.
A
common mistake that new webmasters make is to try obtain a good listing
with generic terms such as "sex","fuck" etc. Unfortunately
your chances of getting any sort of reasonable listing for any of the
adult related single word search terms is remote so it is far better to
target niche related phrases that surfers use when searching for porn.
There are tools available on the net that will help you identify these
phrases and you will find one listed over on the Resource page.
The
most influential search engine on the planet is Google, several other
search engines take their listings straight from Google and other search
engines are now maudlin themselves on Google. So it is important to understand
how Google works and build your sites accordingly. Some experienced webmasters
build sites exclusively for search engine traffic. That is not a good
idea for the new webmaster. It can take several months for a site to get
listed on the search engines and even then there is no guarantee that
your site will get a good enough listing to attract a reasonable amount
of traffic.
It
certainly is possible to build a site that is acceptable to link lists
and search engines and for a new webmaster a site that will attract both
types of traffic is ideal.
Many
new webmasters wonder if they should use one of the many paid search engine
submission services that appear offering to submit to hundreds of search
engines for one low fee. You will also find that there are auto submitters
on offer for webmasters. The fact is that there are only a few search
engines that are worth submitting to and any webmaster can do that by
hand and using an auto submitter is a guaranteed way of getting your domain
banned by the search engines.
The Most IMPORTANT part is to READ, TEST, and Analyze results from the various traffic sources
to find out what does best for you. Below are Great Articles for you to read through for random insights on traffic
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