Finding newbie pools of Gay Traffic (Article)

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Generating Gay Niche Traffic through less popular methods

Many of the more obvious way to generate gay traffic involve gay TGPs, Search Engine pages, Link List categories, pic posts, movie gallery posts, and AVS traffic. This article deals with generating gay niche traffic through more non conventional means.

Create a gay info gateway

There are many pages on the internet that deal with gay social, health, and lifestyle issues. These take the form of chatboards, email discussion lists, informational web pages, and usenet forums. These should be your first target in filtering your traffic.
By filtering, I mean, building sites that attract the readers of these Internet areas and building mechanisms in the sites you built to eventually take them to your adult site.

Step 1: First stage pages

Offer information that mirrors or adds to the bulk of the themes that are already existing in the non-porn gay areas described above. Offer either new information, reconstructed (paraphrased and cross referenced) information, or informational links. Don't be tempted to put porn links at this stage since the traffic is still fairly unfiltered, you must focus on having your pages be an extension of the content of the areas you are recruiting traffic from. Once you've built your first stage pages, start promoting these on the message areas listed above by quoting your own material while participating in the discussions in the forums above. This stage in the process is very time intensive because you are building trust to lure existing traffic. The pages you built also will generate search engine traffic, so keep building page, and build credibility with both existing sites' traffic and search engines.

Key point: first level filter sites are very specific to the websites/forums you will be promoting these sites on. So there has to be a 1:1 correlation in terms of topic. For example: if you plan to filter traffic from a heavily read gay health forum, your pages must be regarding gay health (and I'm not talking about men's health aka penis pill articles)

Step 2: Retain your recruited traffic

Gay traffic is definitely smaller than straight traffic. Hence, you must take extra care in retaining this traffic by offering newsletters, email lists for site update information, and other devices on your site. Grow your first level filter site by putting "refer this to a friend" features on almost all your pages.

Step 3: Aggregate traffic from your specific interest filter sites

Once you've built a network of topic specific pages that reflect the specific topics of non-porn pages/forums/areas you are recruiting from, create a non-porn HUB site where all these topics are discussed. Offer freshly updated content/articles in each of the topic areas that you aggregate. Put a link to your HUB site on all your other pages.

Aggressively market your hub site through search engines, community site link areas, link exchanges, etc.

Step 4: Filtering to porn from your HUB site

Once your hub site is well stocked with exclusive articles/non porn content to retain your traffic. Have a "Gay entertainment" or "Adult Entertainment" link at your hub site. This should lead to a fairly mild area that discusses gay dating/gay encounters/ etc (Dating Gold, AFF, other such affiliate programs would be good for this area).

Step 5: Purely Gay porn site

Using the comparatively mild gay dating/gay entertainment area of your HUB site, link them using suggestive but not fully nude or vulgar graphics to your full on gay porn area. My suggestion would be to use gay site reviews and sample content from FHGs. Remember, credibility is everything so don't go overboard. You must still speak to your traffic in the manner they are accustomed to which is in an even tone and informative manner.

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[Lee]

There are many pages on the internet that deal with gay social, health, and lifestyle issues. These take the form of chatboards, email discussion lists, informational web pages, and usenet forums. These should be your first target in filtering your traffic.
By filtering, I mean, building sites that attract the readers of these Internet areas and building mechanisms in the sites you built to eventually take them to your adult site.

Even though many of these information pages attract a young audience looking for specific information on the gay lifestyle? By young audience i mean predominantly below the age of 18 although i would agree that there will be some surfers hitting these pages that are over the age of 18 it is still not a good idea to try getting traffic to an adult site from a site that can potentially attract children $0.02

For example: if you plan to filter traffic from a heavily read gay health forum, your pages must be regarding gay health (and I'm not talking about men's health aka penis pill articles)

So what are you talking about if not mens heatlh/penis pills? A gay man, going to a 'health' page is going to be looking for information on, well mens health.. call me crazy but thats just what i would be looking for on a mens health site :eek:

Oh and penis pills sell VERY well to the gay surfer.. as long as you are sending them to a gay specific tour and not a straight our telling them that their wives want them to have a bigger dick

Gay traffic is definitely smaller than straight traffic.

I strongly disagree with this statement.

Hence, you must take extra care in retaining this traffic by offering newsletters, email lists for site update information, and other devices on your site. Grow your first level filter site by putting "refer this to a friend" features on almost all your pages.

What would you send out in the newsletter and what other 'devices' should we put on our sites apart from a newsletter and, what should we send out in the newsletter itself?

Can i ask you a couple of questions...

Are you gay?
How much gay traffic have you aquired using these methods?

Dont mean to belittle you with this fedback but in all honesty, it just looks like you wrote this article to be able to spam every forum in the adult industry with it and your services.

Personally, i have never heard you mentioned in the gay market before so im curious as to how long you have been working it to judge the accuracy of the information you included in your article above.

Regards,

Lee

[$5 Submissions]

Thanks for the warm welcome, Lee. :crybaby:

[Lee]

Originally posted by $5 Submissions
Thanks for the warm welcome, Lee. :crybaby:

Haha...

Trust me that was nothing... wait till you start getting asked to post naked pics

As i say though, it would be hndy for us to have a point of reference as far as your skills in dealing with gay traffic goes... to be honest, anyone can write an article, but writing an article based on the writers experiences is way better imho.. it just seems to me like its an awful lot of work do get traffic that some simple filtering on regular 'porn' sites can achieve in a shorter space of time.

Anyway regardless, welcome to the community and i do hope i havent put you off fom posting

Regards,

Lee

[basschick]

hi, $5 Submissions. i don't want to be mean, but i agree with every point lee brought up. offering information will bring minors and also people who are absolutely not looking for porn. it's like the opposite of filtering your traffic.

to filter your traffic, you would bring in general gay sex traffic and then filter it to its various niches. that is, after all, what you do with straight traffic.

as far as the gay market being smaller, well, maybe, but it converts no less than 3 times better for me.