Lesson #15 Maximizing Your Free Adult Site
Written By Titmowse

Once their first free adult is built the common urge among webmasters is to immediately build another one. It’s important to keep learning and experimenting with new design but your old free site sits there on the server waiting for you. It calls you. It tells you that you can do so much more.

The first thing you would naturally try to do with your free site is use it as an advertising platform for affiliate sponsors. A free TGP might carry banners and links for privacy software and penis enlargement pills. A free mature site would lure money by tantalizing visitors with the galleries provided by their mature click-through sponsor. The strictly erotica free site would not be complete without a link for membership to a huge story paysite.

After massaging your search engine links, applying your link trade banners and regular updates, your main free site is can still be improved. You need to give the people a reason to come to your free site but you also need to give them a reason to buy from your sponsors.

Look at the traffic statistics on your free page. Unique visitors are not the only important hits on your server. Surfers who look deeper in your site and the ones who bookmark it are gold. They are the little critters who’ve wandered on your web close enough for you to snatch them. They are willing customers and you need to find ways to keep them on your free site and buying from you. A combination of search engine traffic and bookmarkers is a far higher quality of client than those 50,000 hits you get from submitting galleries. Give your fee site visitors what they want but give it to them with profit in mind. Match your sponsors to your traffic. MILF paysite banners won’t sell on a BDSM free toplist, but text links promising unlimited bondage stories for a small fee will.

The liberating element of running a free adult site is that you have complete control of it’s content and advertising. You determine when the ads go and where the clicks lead.

Perhaps your are brave enough to venture into the world of paysite ownership. Does that mean your free site has to sit on a server only to be forgotten? If your free site draws any kind of regular traffic, it can be utilized to sell your paysite.

As said above, you have complete control over your free adult site. No one can stop you if you decide to post huge graphic banners on it linked directly to any new web venture you fancy. You can bump your free counters and sponsor banners down to the bottom. You can pop consoles. You can force surfers to view your new paysite’s full-page ad before they get to see your gratis content.

Your old free site can evolve into a new traffic pump that feeds visitors directly to your membership tour. Your little free adult page might be your best marketing tool for your future because it’s your home turf.

The regulars who frequent your free page already have a relationship with you. They have trust with you as a webmaster already so they’re more likely to buy from your recommendations. You don’t have to tell your free fans the site you’re selling is yours. You can present it as you would any sponsor’s product. Then again if your free site is more personalized a bit of recommendatory text can garner you lots of new members who were there all along.

Any time you go out on your own, you take chances. Building a free adult site seems like less of a chance than the gigantic expense of a pay venture. Just the same, that free site you built is more than just evidence of the practical application of your webmastering/marketing knowledge. Whether you realize it or not, that virtual space you made is real. Don’t let your free sites float off into the lost orbits of cyberspace. Your free adult site is like your own personal billboard. If you use it right, it will always sell for you.