Quote Originally Posted by Ben View Post
Thanks for the suggestions. So blogging is the king... When blogs first appeared I thought it would be a short-lived fad that nobody would remember in one years time. How wrong I was.
Blogs should be a part of any traffic strategy as they get good SE traffic.

Back in the day, you could create a free site, advertise just one sponsor, and make a killing. I remember pulling 15 sales one day in just one free site I submitted to Manpics. It was bear lovin and at the time ARS had yet to make a banner for it.

Now you need to triangulate your traffic.

Start with free sites. At first you don't have much to link them to except external sponsors. After you get a few free sites, you get a hub. Once you get a hub, develop another domain (examples - fake tgp, site that sells dating sites, site disguised to upsell to VOD or live shows, whatever). Then link them together. You will start increasing your sales. The goal is to show less traffic more $$$ making stuff. Then add some AVS sites, then hub the avs, then link it to whatever else you have. Triangulate your traffic. Then grab another domain and spend a few yours developing that. This maybe a fake toplist. Link that with everything else. Then do a blog which links to everything else you have. Then five other blogs that YOU write for. Then create a blog hub that pulls RSS feeds from your blogs. Triangulate that with everything else you got. Keep repeating. Pretty soon when you put up a free site, you will be saying, "which one of my properties makes the most money and filters this small amount of traffic the best." Then you will be sending surfers to that. Based on what niche you have it maybe a blog, your blog network, your AVS site, or your MAIN hub that links everything you have together.

For me, the goal of a free site has turned from sending primarily directly to a sponsor to sending to my surfer trap. A sponsor may convert at 1:300 - 500 on free site traffic. But my surfer trap converts at maybe 1:100. Plus I get bookmarkers.

becuase of reasons you mentioned, I primarily only use revshare on exclusive content sites as you almost need the member to retain from billing cycle one to two to make it worth your while.

I am having AMAZING luck with these join one, get access to 20 sites deals. As part of my hubs I have created my own pages that describe the deal. Last I looked one sponsor was converting at 1:76 overall that had this. Even Topbucks (which is overexposed) is doing 1:125 ish. Python is about the same.

Best advice I can give. Register 20 domains and dabble in everything - VOD, live cams, dating, blogs, Avs, free sites, fake tgps, fake toplists.

If you have a link list script, signup with StudPort and create a link list with just his hosted AEN sites on it. He setup a downlable excel file with links to teh 2000+ free hosted sites he has.

BOTTOM LINE - Be a thief. Give the surfer that goes to a link list and clicks your site a reason to leave the link list and not click the next link on the link list. Sending your traffic just to a sponsor is reason enough for a surfer to continue down the link list looking for something better. Send them to an overwhelming amount of your money making properties will have him soon forget he was surfing the same link list he does every day. Surfers like choice and they enjoy change once in a while. Offer that to them.

Lloyd