How many updates to keep a surfer?

[marcjacob]

Ive done my little board to act as a filter site. Im posting fhgs and sponsor content, linking each image to the sponsors site. If i send all my traffic to that, i hope that surfers will find something the like.

I want them to keep coming back, so im planning 5 daily updates mon-fri.

I wondered how many posts are needed to keep them coming back? One wont cut it?

Im then planning to do a free "secret" area, fill it with upsells and tell the surfer they can have access with so many posts. Do you think a surfer would go for that?

Do i even want them coming back? I mean should i think "buy or get lost" sort of thing?

[gaybucks_chip]

You always want them coming back. Some might never buy anything, but bandwidth is cheap, and if they like your site, even if they never buy anything, they will probably tell friends, which gets you more traffic.

And then one day, you'll post a gallery of some model they just HAVE to see and the credit card comes out...

[wnc]

What I find enjoyable working as a gay webmaster is that you can't take a break (yawning... when last did I sleep?). Constant changes. Some changes you will be able to work with, some are too advanced to play catch-up with.

Marcjacob, right now BLOG is what gets attention, especially with Google. Via another thread here, someone is selling an automated SEOBLOG product, so even that venue will be overwhelmed with spam, if not already.

Marcjaob, experiment with once a day, five days a week... but be willing to update more in the future. Surfers will indeed bookmark a site that changes alot.

[marcjacob]

WNC, i think your saying what i dont want to hear . Im thinking that i need other webmasters to post their galleries to keep it moving. The thing with that is that were a fickle bunch. They wont support it until im getting decent traffic.

Maybe i should press ahead with the free area thing. Even with that i think if i set the post count at 50 ill get 5 crap nonsense irrelivent posts

[wnc]

Sorry. I had misread your post.

"Im posting fhgs". Not even knowing what a FHG is, I had responded. I do hope that you rope that wild FHG stallion, taming and controlling it, but I suspect my advice and comment remains for any particular venue.

[marcjacob]

Free hosted gallery - a tgp gallery with pics and or movies thats hosted by the sponsor.. and yeah, your advice is making me think.

[Lee]

Just posting FHG links isnt going to cut it, the point of having a 'board' is so the surfer has interactivity, between them and other users.

If they want FHG links, they can go to any TGP and find them.

What is going to make YOUR board stand out for the surfer?

Again, a 'secret' area full of upsells, the surfer can just go to any TGP or Link List and find banners to almost every paysite out there so again, why would they want to keep coming to your board?

Regards,

Lee

[marcjacob]

Yeah i see what your saying Lee. The whole board thing was really just a simple way to filter the traffic out to my sponsors. My ideal would be surfers posting but thats tough to acheive as who posts to a board that has not many posts to start with?

Its getting clicks to sponsors so ill build up traffic and see if gets sales. If it does than ill leave it at that and keep posting content. I guess the main thing has to be getting traffic to my sponsors.

I guess it would help if i knew what i want it to be .

[mickey]

one of the main things with boards is surfers posting copyrighted material... so be sure to keep a good look out for people posting that kind of stuff to "share" with their fellow surfers...

[marcjacob]

one of the main things with boards is surfers posting copyrighted material... so be sure to keep a good look out for people posting that kind of stuff to "share" with their fellow surfers...

Well. If it does get people posting, this is a great chance to educate. In the rules I put..

4. No Passwords unless you own the site the password is for! Password sharing is illegal and costs the Adult Industry millions each year - and they provide our free porn so don't do it!

If anyone posts protected content ill remove it and email them to explain WHY its a bad thing to do :square:

I think its more likely that they will look at the porn and never post though

[mickey]

Well. If it does get people posting, this is a great chance to educate. In the rules I put..



If anyone posts protected content ill remove it and email them to explain WHY its a bad thing to do :square:

I think its more likely that they will look at the porn and never post though

well i think you will be surprised at the amount of stuff people are willing to post.. look at a place like bikinibikini .. now am not saying your place will be the same but just saying that people will share what they have downloaded and not care about the copyrights.. and if you are not on top of it, you could get in problems with sponsors fairly fast..

[marcjacob]

I have a delete button

[mickey]

I have a delete button

good for you and am sure you look forward to spending 24 hours monitoring all posts...

[marcjacob]

Well at the moment that isnt a problem as no one but me and a couple of other webmasters post. If it becomes a problem ill look at it then.

Im happy to lock the forum and have it as a hub. The main idea is to filter traffic to sponsors after all.

If that does happen, and it gets busy, im sure i can find some moderators from somewhere.

I also have a ban button for people who decide not to follow rules.