What ways are there to generate traffic to a site?
SEO is always what I have specialized in, but what other ways are there?
Viral? Is it even possible to use it on greater scale for a gay porn site?
How about myspace?
Curious to find out what other ways there are to gain traffic.
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Addiction. Giving users the idea that they cannot live without visit your site is key of the success. Making a site a part of the daily routine of people is another key.
I’m not sure if you can do that with a gay porn site. The better example is JUB. They have a strong forum community. It works like a glue to keep users around the site.
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[QUOTE=InsaneSimon;23113]Addiction. Giving users the idea that they cannot live without visit your site is key of the success. Making a site a part of the daily routine of people is another key.
I’m not sure if you can do that with a gay porn site. The better example is JUB. They have a strong forum community. It works like a glue to keep users around the site.[/QUOTE]
The problem with that approach is that you have a lot of users who’ve been desensitized to your ads 'cause they see them every day. I’m not saying JUB isn’t making tons of money but forum traffic isn’t always the most profitable traffic. That said, I’m working on putting up a forum on rawtop.com - not 'cause my “addicted” users will be profitable directly, but because they’ll write content the search engines will send traffic to, and search engine traffic is profitable…
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Ok, yeah you are talking about doing a site sticky. But I’m wondering about ways to get the visitors there in the first place.
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it is possible to use myspace - many porn sites and pornstars do - but one must be careful not to put up anything explicit. don’t forget the other similar sites - there’s a few of them out there. also social bookmarking sites can be useful. and then there’s posting galleries to promote the site, posting freesites to promote it or having a blog. not a splog with pics and marketing text, but one from the site owner telling about sites he’s had submitted, funny stories, about his favorite models on updates and all that stuff. the blog could be on another domain and trade links, and of course it would be nice for SEO as well.
sites can also do good old-fashioned lnk trades, starting a toplist, making sure that submissions use your recip. and while we’re talking recips, a text recip will send more surfers than a banner or button, although it won’t be as good for branding.