Gay Ethnic Linking Categories

[Lee]

Tom,

I agree whole-heartedly, by lumping latin, black, asian, white and interracial sites in to just 1 category webmasters seriously cut down the amount of traffic and sales they could be generating.

Regards,

Lee

[abostonboy]

http://www.gayethniclinks.com

Tom,

That's tae's site.

[Goldie]

I agree too! We discovered this when we redid our categories last year. You need to be specific because that is how people search. We ended up adding some categories, and are looking to add even more once we get the content to support it...

[Dzinerbear]

I suspect a part of it is ignorance: "all Asians are the same" sort of thing, so everyone gets lumped into a singular category.

But I also suspect that it has something to do with the lack of content. If I were to create a category on my link list for "Indian Guys" I doubt I'd have much in it. If I create a category called "Asian Guys" then it would at least have some content list in it.

It's like of like bears, if you break them down into muscle bears, daddy bears, polar bears, chubby bears, bear cubs, you could end up with five sparsely populated categories, but if you just create "Bears" at least you get the surfer going in the right direction.

Michael

[abostonboy]

dzi,

For many it started as lack of content and then evolved into laziness.

i have run a linklist since I can't remember when. it was never meant to make money, just something i wanted to do i guess. Meet webamsters, and use it more as a tool for checking out new sites to market, look at their recips and find new link lists, and see how they deisgned there sites.

When I first started I had an ethnic category, and at the tiime Ounique maybe had 20 latin sets, 5 asian, and maybe 20 black.

So that category was small. Even finding 5 sponsors for the page was tough. At the time there was pretty much only asianguys, ars had a black site, and a few others. I think streetlife just launched an affiliate program. Not much else in all honestly.

I never broke that category down as the market grew. laziness. Lack of priority as the ll was more my personal homepage than anything else.

The same was true of the video category. Originally it was meant to list amateur producers who sold videos. And that was the submissions I got. Now that page get's 80% movie gallereis (which i reject) and 20% movie sites (which are ok).

It's all about evolution in the industry and how webmasters react to the change.

And Tom an issue some established link list may have when expanding their category is - the page as a general ethnic page, maybe still getting heavy search engine traffcic. i know when I created my link list and put recips up to my site on all feeder sites I submitted, I linked directly to that category page rather than my home page. Some of my internal pages get much more SE traffic than others etc. So if an ethnics page is getting x amount of SE a day, and i can make a sale to a sponsor, is it really worth my time to create five sub categories and then move the sites around? Maybe, maybe not.

In general, the ethnic field is IMHO reaching a sturation point. this is especially true of asian. There is limited content, it is expensive, the Biggest asian sites (based on members joining per day) use the same content (so it affects webmaster conversions), and those companies that have asian sites with exclusive content either pay via a % program and don't conver a whole lot better than the PPS boys because of site design issues. The Black market is bigger, but conversions from site to site are all over the place, so there is a learning curve to find the site that works for you. The latino market however is still almost a license to print money. Even on revshare programs. For some reason they just got it right. And the content is diverse, pleantiful, and reasonable now. unlike four years ago.

[dannyz]

Yeah, 'ethnic' is really a word that does not have any meaning to me, like anyone who is not white is an 'ethnic' .... :wacko:

[abostonboy]

So danny is ethnicguys.com a bad domain name? registered that domain when I started latinoguys.com, which I have long sold.

i mean if I wanted to creat an asian, black, and latino site. How would I do it. And I know for a fact that many that liek one likes others. My bf loves to get fucked by black guys. And latinos. And I am sure there are many that would love to watch.

But i dont want it to be all interracial either.