I started in adult in December 2004 which is about 9 months ago now. I have been submitting free sites and galleries over this time as every good, little noob should be doing! I started to get into blogs and have some that I have and still do develop(ed) on and others that I have abandoned because they turned out to be too boring for me to write to often. I opened a link list this summer where this blog you’re reading is at and I plan to run this thing big.
Now what have I learned then over these past months?
1) It sucks to be a submitter because you will never gain your own traffic pool but just keep providing content for TGP’s/MGP’s/Link Lists. Ok you might get some bookmarkers if you setup a hub or something like that but it’s still not all that longterm imo.
2) Search Engine traffic is king! The little I got of this has convinced me that this is where I wanna put in my main effort in the new year.
3) To be your own boss seems nice but it’s quite hard. It takes a lot of self-discipline, something that I still lack from time to time. This is another area where I want to focus my efforts in.
My gameplan for the rest of the year:
I’ve just gotten my hands on a new shiny server which sports nearly 60 Mbps of Bandwidth so I’m gonna try out submitting movie galleries and see how I can convert those. The good thing about galleries is that you can sit down and make 60 totally ready to submit galleries over the course of a weekend. I do it this way couze then I only have to worry about submitting them every day for the next months.
The other thing I’ll do is make pages/sites that are optimized heavily for the search engines. I know what some of the search engines really like, so it shouldn’t be too hard to achieve some good results in this area before the end of the year.
And the last thing I’ll do is always think really hard about being innovative. Adult seems to be very saturated and I for one agree with the people who says there’s already way too much free porn out there. Too many TGP’s giving away too much easily accessable content leads to badder conversion ratios. That’s why I’m gonna capture surfers off the SE’s before they even get to the free pictures and movies - text and a teaser pic or two is all we need!
If you took the time to read this I wanna say thank you very much and please do comment on my plan or anything else in this post - I’m out!