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Hmmm, well I don't like to show my own unless I really really have to...
I did a quick search here for freesites and while there's plenty of results I didn't see any examples in teh results I looked at.
Anybody here have any good links to nice freesite examples? Or know of a thread here with freesite designs in it?
Generally, a freesite is a smallish site with a warning page (usually with recip links and a sales link on it), a main page with a half page ad, and 2 to 6 gallery pages with pics or movies.
You submit those to what are called linklists.
You submit the galleries alone to places called TGPs. or thumbnail gallery posts.
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Thanks for your effort mate, I’m gonna create my own tgp and submit my galleries. What do you think of the gallery? I know it basic but do you think it gets the job done?
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Hmmmm, well guy, I would say they are not that great.
First, a technical point - there's kindof an unwritten law that galleries should have a statement at the bottom about 2257, stating that the models are over 18 even if it's clear they are not under 18. Lots of places wont take galleries without that, so, to be sure, most gallery builders put some kind of compliance statement on the gallery, at the bottom.
The watermarks across the bodies - I'd say most reviewers will not like it. They might let you get away with it a few times, but if they dont know you, they might just think it's bullshit and ban you, or ban the domain, or something of that kind.
Personally, I thinks its best to avoid the use of the word 'gay' in gay marketing, unless it's the name of the site. We all know it's gay, saying it usually sounds wrong.
Your calls to action are weak, your selling is nuetral, and nuetral is bad in selling.
I would try to make sharper thumbs.
Spend a lot of time thinking about how you are going to SELL the fantasy and the mental/sensual imagery of the masturbation that you want your target surfer to pay for.
But it's your call to action that is the biggest lack. Always have a link, that stands head and shoulders over the other links in attention grabbing vividness, that is begging the guy to CLICK HERE.
Yeah I know your lower banner is supposed to be that. All I can do is shake my head sadly at such a sight.
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Much appreciated, I prefer in-depth honest analyze far more than getting my ego stroke. It made a lot of sense. Thanks for the time you’ve taken to do this.
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Just to add to Bills comments, i think the thumbnail sizes and full pic sizes are fine, however, as Bill already mentioned the sales text is somewhat neutral, you might be better off using something along the lines of...
Thuglicious Features Exclusive Nasty Ass Pounding Ebony Thugs In All Their Glory, Click Now To Take The Free Tour And See For Yourself!
Instead of just mentioning the basic '100% exclusive, click here' type text you have, the added benefit being you have keywords in your text link which will invoke a surfer to click.
The other major thing i would change is splitting the page up a little, you have the header graphic on the gallery, there really isnt any need to have a text link directly below the header, instead i would move that first text link to below the second row of thumbs, or maybe even put the banner below the second row and put the text link where the banner is right now at the bottom of the page.... Also, put a smaller text link below the banner, that WILL increase the effectiveness of the banner ad being on the page, just something as simple as 'click here to see more black thugs' should suffice.
In addition, i have ALWAYS found that matching a gallery or free site colors to that of the site i am going to be sending traffic to has resulted in better conversions for me, this might be something you want to do so that the transition between gallery and paysite is more fluid.
There are a few other things i would suggest but right now we need to get your gallery layout correct so ill hold my other suggestions back for the time being until we have a layout that the general populous thinks will work, then ill get in to some more technical html stuff related to SEO :)
Also, im going to copy this thread across to the general board too as i think a lot more people will give you feedback on that section and it will be good for a few others to see the advice in this thread also :)
Regards,
Lee
