Re: Websites and Traffic.
Loving this thread Bambalina.....
I'm currently researching the same. Your timing couldn't be more perfect! Looking forward to the next post. Thank you for sharing!
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Oh goody! I cant wait for the next part! :D
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Great info babe,so very interesting:)
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ohhh nice.. i love this.. thanks so much , cant wait for more!!!
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Yayy!! Reading these threads is so much fun for me. I've become a geek!
Re: Websites and Traffic...Bad Traffic? No way!
The main thing about traffic is that none of it is BAD. Right? I mean, it's like saying it was a bad orgasm...doesn't happen.
Well that's true. However, if you bring home clinging leech stalker boy and he gives you a weak and barely satisfying orgasm, and then won't go away for months and throws rocks at your windows while you sleep, the ORGASM wasn't BAD, but the price you paid for it sure is.
So...what constitutes bad traffic?
Well the worst traffic is the traffic you pay for, that doesn't do what you want it to. I know alot of you liked the idea of just BUYING your traffic...easy peasy and done. But it takes a LOT of savvy to know who to go to and what traffic to buy.
USUALLY this traffic will pay off better than some of the others I list further along, but it still is PAID for as opposed to free. So lesson one, if you PAY for junk traffic, you are a huge dork with an L on your forehead. Believe me, I woke many a day and had to wipe that fucking L off when I was first promoting.
Quality traffic CAN be bought, but you need to know a lot about the traffic. So...when I said Webcam traffic, I saw a few of you with ears perked listening and counting your money, because shit, you're a webcam girl, so webcam traffic should pay BILLIONS right?
Sorry, no necessarily. As beautiful as you may be, Let's say you work at Streamate. How many guys who come to Streamate are going to come to YOUR room and spend money? (Remember, they are ALL "quality webcam traffic" that is VERY targeted.)They are all looking for webcam girls, but they aren't all looking for YOU! In fact a very small percentage want YOU. So what good is "Webcam traffic" then? Well if you run an Indy Site, it will be very profitable traffic, and each girl who gets a few shows from it will be happy. Because it is Targeted, but BROADLY for a whole type of adult site.
So, you begin, I hope to see how complex traffic can be. It's not just a simple matter of ALL traffic is good.
Let's move on to lesson 3.
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Yes....let's! (Gets out note pad.):)
Re: Websites and Traffic.- Worst to best
Ok, so the worst traffic is BLIND traffic. People will actually SELL you blind traffic, so beware. It is garbage traffic and not only is it (in my opinion) not good, it is actually the only TRULY bad traffic.
So, let's say I put a link in here. You don't know what it is for, or why it's there...do you click it? It COULD be a horrible virus or anything...Well, it just goes back here...but the point is that those links are used often and people that click them may have no idea they are even going to an adult site...they may even be KIDS...And now you have angry parents saying you put links out there for kids to you "Humping Grinding Pussy Cam" site. Not good. To say the least. But even under the best circumstances what are the chances a random surfer who clicks on a link that is blind, will end up being a customer for you...they are looking for FISHING gear...or Gay Anal Lube! Lord knows what...
Blind traffic. WORSE than useless.
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Next on our list would be VERY un-targeted traffic. It comes in several forms. You can buy it (the worst) you can link list for it, you can TGP for it, you can get it many ways. It will actually convert...at a very very very low rate. Take a TGP thrown onto TheHun. You will get upwards of 100,000 hits per 36 hours for every gallery there. Sounds good right? (Till you get the hosting bills) But in reality that means 100,000 people looked at 12 naked pictures of YOU...cool? Maybe...but then on that page will be a link (or several if you're smart) to your cam room or your web site, or your affiliate program...and out of those 100,000 hits, about 1000 will click through to your site or your room or your affiliate link, if you're lucky. Now, these guys are all guys who surf for FREE Porn, or they wouldn't be ON a TGP. So you get 1000 freeloaders to clink your site, of come into your cam room, or go to your affiliate link...Lucky You! Generally it will covert 1-3 people if your content is really compelling. and you will run up about 20 gigs of traffic on your webserver doing it.
So you might get from this that TGPs are worthless. Not ALWAYS true. Notice that Devon and I had a disagreement about TGPs a while back. Well, Devon said she uses the Boob TGP, and does fairly well. From my understanding Devon has some majorly wonderful and huge boobilicious boobs. So for her, that is TARGETED traffic.
There are Foot TGPs, Domme TGPs, Hairy TGPs, Bald TGPs, Stocking TGPs, Fat and petite TGPs, etc. Almost every kind of woman you might be, there is a TGP for you, and probably several. So don't be LAZY!!! Find the niche.
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Now we digress. For those who don;t know the word, Niche is a very important word for webmasters and self-promoters. Here's what the dictionary says:
a. A situation or activity specially suited to a person's interests, abilities, or nature: "found her niche in life."
b. A special area of demand for a product or service
So BBW is a niche, but so is the difference between superBBW and chubby lovers...Foot Worship, Brunettes, Redheads, Big nipples, autoerotic asphyxiation, Financial Domme, Humiiliation (which as you surely know has several sub-niches), Creampie, etc. etc. etc.
MANY believe there is little money to be made from Mainstream porn due to over-saturation. EVERY webmaster knows that niche stuff is still making money, if it is done well. It isn't just FETISH...that is a huge mistake, although they can USUALLY be used interchangeably. It is anything that can be sold as a small market that serves certain people. In general it is the OPPOSITE of Mainstream.
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Ok, so I'm going to skip a few forms of traffic so we can start to talk about the best traffic.
First, if you really want to get this, read these two links and understand them:
Now, if you read this, you know more than most webmasters and web designers about traffic(not really, but close).
Now, a general truth is not always specifically true. Remember that as I go along here.
The general truth is that Organic Traffic is the BEST traffic. I wouldn't argue it as a general truth either. If you read up there, you understand now that Organic traffic is traffic that comes from Search Engines, Backlinks (you did read my other thread of tutorials and you remember what backlinks are right???). Directories, even blogs and social networking.
The most important traffic you can get and you cannot buy it..(although you CAN buy making it BETTER) is Google. Compared to anything else, if you get #1 for great keywords on Google, THAT alone can make you rich. Seriously. All the other search engines combined (yes, this includes Yahoo...explain in a minute) do not equal Google. Yes, yahoo is big, but they are a Directory and they CHARGE to include you if you do business at ALL, but the Yahoo search results are all now redirected directly to #3 Search engine, Bing. So, Yahoo and Bing are like 30% of the searches and Google is 49.2%. The only competitor in DISTANT third place is AOL with 6% of searches and I believe they use Google for searches. So Google is god of the search market. This doesn't come as much surprise to most of you, but realize this goes far deeper than it seems, because Google being so dominant makes everyone at every level change the way they do things and affects decisions NET-wide.
Anyway...We're going to work on making your site Google friendly later. Some people have covered some of that here, and while some of the information was in-accurate, or just plain wrong, most of it won't hurt you and will actually get you a Google ranking. So for now, I'm going to leave that alone. I'll just say a nice amount of really subject oriented text that keys in on YOUR site and make sure that you try to read it like a machine would. Text on a JPG is COMPLETELY USELESS. "I am a woman you want to be with!" is not nearly as good as "I am a sexy woman you want to spend time with on webcam." or even better "I am the webcam girl you want to spend sexy time with."...That sentence just upped your hits for "webcam girl".
But the #1 thing you can do for Google, and I said it before, but it bears repeating...GET LINKS!!! Get people to link to you. Beg. borrow, steal, buy, etc. Get those links! The more quality links that are of the subject you need, the absolutely HUGE amount of difference it will make on Google will astound you.
And Links are also Organic Traffic.
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Now, to me, equal to Organic traffic is VERY targeted PAID traffic. So that will be saved for the next post.
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if what i posted was innaccurate or just plain wrong then how do you explain this...one of my website domains is a long string keyword phrase. i have the .net version and my competition has the .com version. she has a whopping two backlinks (checked her on backlinkwatch) and has shit for content. Yet she has number one positiong on google and ALL SHE HAS IS THE DOT.COM domain name going for her. i am at number two with good content and backlinks. you can say that what i posted is inaccurate, but that is real life right there. how can you explain that?
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if what i posted was innaccurate or just plain wrong then how do you explain this...one of my website domains is a long string keyword phrase. i have the .net version and my competition has the .com version. she has a whopping two backlinks (checked her on backlinkwatch) and has shit for content. Yet she has number one positiong on google and ALL SHE HAS IS THE DOT.COM domain name going for her. i am at number two with good content and backlinks. you can say that what i posted is inaccurate, but that is real life right there. how can you explain that?
I'm sorry. You may not be inaccurate. Maybe I am. The concept of Google's rules and equations and so on is not a science, no matter how much SEOs will say it is. If I stated it as a fact, I apologize. We just don't know truly what google's algorithm is. So if I spoke in absolutes, then I was having a bad day.
Let me re-state. I have had the exact same results as you are experiencing. BUT, I have also experienced the exact opposite, and to go further had a .tv domain and .net domain which both topped the .com and they all had almost duplicate content, and the exact same number of backlinks. So how do YOU explain that? You don't...in my opinion. If you want to believe that owning the dotcom is a much preferable google rating, more power to you, and you may very well be right and there's something I don't know. If you search this, those who speak for Google and/or are very popular and "expert" on the Google Webmaster forums say G does not care and does not sort by extension at ALL. However, I was also able to find two out 5 Search Engine Optimizations Experts, who said it DOES matter, but that .org and .net will rank so close as to not matter much, it's all the OTHER extensions that are a problem. To be fair, one of the experts says Absolute buy dotcom. So, google themselves have strongly indicated it DOESN'T matter, without actually saying it, the google experts on their Webmaster site, say it doesn't matter. But some folks still think it does, and if it works better for you. Do it...
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Now, I need a nap soon, long day...
Quickly though. Check your pagerank, and also the page rank of the links to your site. This is a very important measure of how google ranks you, and why.
Example...I have had a site with 3 links total, all of which were from PR5 or above sites (GOOD links)...this site beat the crap out of sites I had with 40 or 50 PR1 and PR2 links.
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PS. More about PR later.
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How do you check your page rank?
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I am seriously taking notes. This is good stuff. Waiting for mo'....;0
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There's one.
You can also install the Google Toolbar, it is the easiest way.
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That link didn't work for me but I used another site and it said 0/10...? I use chrome so I couldn't install the toolbar. I can't figure out if chrome has a way built in to check. I use google analytics also and don't see anything about page rank on there either.
My site hasn't even been up for a month yet I don't think. I'm tryin'!!
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That link didn't work for me but I used another site and it said 0/10...? I use chrome so I couldn't install the toolbar. I can't figure out if chrome has a way built in to check. I use google analytics also and don't see anything about page rank on there either.
My site hasn't even been up for a month yet I don't think. I'm tryin'!!
Install Mozilla just for that and nothing else. :) alot of the google webmaster tools work with mozilla.
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This thread is being continued on CGU.
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So, have we all come a long way in getting our sites up and linked and #1 on Google? If not, why not? And lets start working on it!
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