Quote Originally Posted by Bill View Post
But the key to freesite and gallery profits is the selling you do with your links to the sponsor and the support text and suggestions that you associate with those links.
This is actually the perfect example of what is going wrong with the industry these days when it comes to those of us who do still build free sites.

Because content is hitting the web en mass for free, link lists and directories are becoming more demanding with the amounts of content we need to use on our free sites and also, how little ad space we're actually 'allowed' to put on our sites.

I remember when we could have an FPA on the jump page between the enter link and the main page of a free site, 80% of my traffic would go to the sponsor via that FPA, then link lists and directories didnt want FPAs to be used anymore.

Then there was the main page itself, we used to be allowed to put 2 or 3 ads on that page, not any more.

Then on to the galleries, we used to be allowed to put 2 or 3 links to the sponsor on the galleries, not any more.

Now it seems most places are requiring that you beef up the amounts of images, movies or stories being used on free sites whilst at the same time, limiting the amount of actual 'ad selling' that can be done.

Im pretty much at the stage now where im submitting to 3 or 4 link lists that are accepting sites based on how *I* want to build them... So they actually sell the surfer, not give the content away for free.

Regards,

Lee