Monday, November 07, 2005

Building Galleries

Galleries are one of the tools you'll need to use to make money in the adult business!

What's a Gallery? Typically a Gallery is a simple webpage with 5-30 thumbnails, or mini versions of images, which when clicked lead to a full size version of the desired image. You, the webmaster, will build a page of thumbnails and then submit your page to a TGP (Thumbnail Gallery Post). The TGP webmaster will review your page and if they like it they'll add a link to it on their site. The TGP site generally lists several links per day. Sometimes several days are listed and then later they are archived. Or the TGP may categorize your link on their site and it will enjoy a longer link life.

Now just throwing together a page full of pics and submitting them is not going to get you anywhere.....Why you ask well because TGP sites have very strict rules on getting listed. The TGP site webmaster knows his audience and what they like. He tries to entice them in order to snag some good traffic while promoting his/her sponsors as well. If you follow the rules of the site and get listed, you'll get loads of traffic. In fact, you could get thousands of hits in a single day. The drawback to this traffic is that it doesn't always convert very well ("convert" = sign ups or joins to your sponsor). That means you could end up with lots of bandwidth use and nothing to show for it. So it's very important to build a good page.

So Now you ask how do I build a good gallery?
Well first you need a sponsor then you need to download some sponsor content...or if you have you some bought content you can use that as well as long as the content matches the site your promoting!
Ok you now have your content use a batch program to resize them so that they are at least 600 pixels on the long side and between 25 and 35kb. If you have bandwidth to spare then try 700-800 on the long side and between 40-60kb to maximise your accepts. There are a lot of quality tgps now with good traffic that demand 40kb min size for images.
Get them into series groups of 15, naming them 1.jpg, 2.jpg etc, and then create the thumbs.
I create my thumbs with this handy tool its quick easy and saves lots of time Easy Thumbnails
You now have 15 pics with thumbnails ready to go.

When you build your gallery page, you can use a template. A template is a page that can be used over and over again to build more pages. The layout of each page basically remains the same. A word of warning!!!
Most TGPs do not like "cookie cutter" pages. They don't like for you to submit the same page over and over and over again. So even if you use a template to build a page, you should really spend some time making each page unique. In the template, your images will have generic names like pic01.jpg, pic02.jpg, pic03.jpg, etc. This makes it easy to build several pages. In the template all you might have to do is to change the title of the page but I would suggest you add keyword meta tags, description meta tag and make each gallery SE ready. Then upload your page to a directory on your server, upload the pics and you're ready to go. For the next page, create a new directory, upload the template with your changes, upload another group of pics, and again, you're ready to go.

Another word of advice. Don't use the same picture gallery repeatedly. Most TGP sites do not like seeing the same content over and over. While many sponsors offer free content, you can bet that the TGP site owner has seen it all and may reject your page based on over exposed content (no pun intended). It's a good idea to invest in some content.

The key here is to make several of these pages every day and submit them on a regular basis. You might be thinking "This is work!" Well, yes, it is! This is a business and like any other business you have to work it for it to be successful. There are some applications that are available to decrease your workload such as autosubmitters, but be very careful as some TGP sites do not allow use of autosubmitters!

One of the rules a TGP site may have is a reciprocal link. That means that in order to get listed on the TGP, you must place a link on your page back to the TGP. Some TGP sites find it acceptable to be listed with other TGP sites, while others do not want to see links to any other sites but their own. How do you satisfy everyone?
You create mirror pages. Pages that look the same but appease the rules of the TPG webmaster. You can do this faster if you investigate the various TGPs and see what their rules and then categorize the TGPs accordingly. You can be BANNED from a TGP by not following their rules or by changing your page after you've been successuflly listed on the TGP. Some TGP webmasters network with each other to govern problematic submitters. That is, if you are banned from one site for a rule transgression you may be banned from even more!!! So it's not a good idea to break the rules before or after submitting your site.

Now that you know the basics of building a TGP page, Get Busy!!!

How to make Money in the adult biz!

Well of course Hard work is the main key to making money in the adult business....so if your looking for easy money I would say find another line of work but if your willing to put in the effort then the money will come and I hope that what you find here in this adult webmasters blog will help make you money!

I will try to provide you with the tools and experience to make money in the biz how much money depends on how much work you do!

So lets get busy making money!
The ONLY *real* secret to this business is hard work and consistency.

Step 1 - Research - Search the boards for SEO tips and tricks, make notes. 1 day.
- Search the boards for TGP gallery tips and tricks, make notes. 1 day.
- Search the boards for freesite tips and tricks, make notes. 1 day.
- Search and make a list of adult and non adult search engines, links lists, link dumps and TGP's that do NOT require recips (except main ones - all smaller). 3 days
- Find a sponsor or sponsors with FHG's, freesites and content (try Twisted Cash, Dollars 4 Babes and/or Giga Cash as a few examples) and grab ALL the links to FHG's, freesites and content from the sponsor/s. Also find an exit traffic sponsor that pays per console . 1 day

Step 2 - Setup & Prepare - Buy 1 domain and place on cheap, but reasonable hosting. You could also sign up for really great free hosting with all the works with out banners or 404 redirects at Revshare hosting Find an exit console script that works for you. 1 day.

- Set up pages on domain with site banners and maximum 5 links to FHG's/freesites on each until you have exhausted supply of sponsor/s provided FHG's/freesites.
Setup site index page to link to ALL of these pages. 2 days.

- Build a freesite template for each site type of your sponsor/s free content. 2 days.
- Build a TGP gallery page for each set of content from your sponsor/s. 2 days.

Step 3 - Implement DAILY *each* Day- Place and SE target one page with links and banners to one search term and set of keywords. Link this page to EACH of the below AND tomorrows page and the site index page and set up exit console to paid exit sponsor.
- Build and SE target one freesite to same search term and set of keywords. Link to page and TGP gallery page below.
- Build and SE target one TGP gallery to search term and set of keywords. Link to page and freesite above.
- MANUALLY submit EACH page to AOL, MSN, Yahoo and Google.- Submit EACH page to no-recip adult search engines.
- Submit the freesite to ALL no-recip link lists and link dumps.
- Submit the TGP page to ALL no recip TGP sites.REPEAT EACH DAY, MINIMUM OF 6 DAYS IN THE WEEK about 2-3 hours per day with practice.

Step 4 - REPLICATE, REPLICATE, REPLICATE- DO the above, WITHOUT exception, a MINIMUM of 6 days per week EVERY week, targeting NEW search terms and key words every day.
- Continue researching to IMPROVE the way you do things- Do NOT do more than two (2) of each per day, I stress, MAXIMUM 2 per day, PER domain. Get more domains if you want to do more, but you MUST do the above minimum EVERY day.
Recycling material (pages. freesites and TGP's) after the first month or so is fine, so long as they target DIFFERENT SE terms and keywords.
Do NOT target the most popular terms, be specific and look for specific traffic. The game is ALL about critical mass of traffic, and targeting sponsors.
You will make NOTHING for the first few weeks. Expect that. Just remember, after 30 days of work, you have 30 pages, 30 freesites and 30 TGP's working to get SMALL traffic, and interlinking to each other.After 3 months, you will have 90 of each, for 270 active, and the search engines will have picked up your stuff also.
You won't be top 10 probably, you probably won't be top 1000, but you will have some placement and you WILL get some traffic.
So how do you make money? If you are getting 50 hits per day on each of your pages, freesites and TGP's, and you get a 10% click though to your sponsor, you will get 270 x 50 x 10% clicks through for potential money.That's 1350 uniques through to your sponsor every day.
Even if you convert at 1:1350, you are getting a join per day, EVERY day And that is where revshare works, 1 join per day on revshare to decent sites,
WILL make you $1000 per month after 2 months of one join per day. So if you follow the above, at the end of 6 months you will be making $1000 per month MINIMUM and GROWING.
After 12 months, you will have OVER 1000 pages/freesites/tgps, so using the same math, you will be making 5 joins or more per day and making over $1000 per WEEK.