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Who the fuck do you think put up all the free porn?!??!
the fucking newbies!!! that's who! all the idiots who jumped in after the gold rush was over so they could run cool sites with free porn for their chat buddies!!
do you see anyone on oprano talking about how many free movies they can put in their tgp sites?!!?!??! or asking for 'gallery critique'?!??!?!
>>"When the amount of free porn is reduced, sales will go up"
duh, the problem with newbies is stating the blatantly obvious, while building a tgp with the other hand and ADDING to the problem.
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As pretty much a newbie (A year and a half since I built my first site) I felt that I should go ahead, jump in and get my ass kicked...err...I mean state my opinion on this....
Yes, the problem is too much free porn, but newbies did not create this problem and for many newbies (don't know about majority, but I do know about the ones coming out of vnwr) we are trying hard not to contribute to the problem.
I build "Webmaster Friendly Sites" whenever possible....
http://www.vnwr.com/linkwfa/listrules.html
The WFA guidelines promote "herding the cattle to the sponsor" more than giving away the candy store. I build with the softest pics I can find in a set. I make my thumbs small, my big pics no more than 500 on the long side and place the emphasis on the sponsor more than on the pics I am showing. If I could, I would have 1 picture to every 3 sponsor links... Unfortunately, I can't.
The first thing a newbie learns is that to make a sale they have to get traffic. To get traffic, they have to get into the SEs, the Linklists and if they choose to do TGP, the TGP lists... (I have done very little TGPing as I don't think I can afford the BW and I firmly believe the current TGP model contributes to the problem) with getting into the Linklists being the real key to getting traffic quickly...
The Linklists have been around for a while, so most of them are not run by newbies. The linklists set the rules for what will get listed. More and more, the linklists are becoming more "surfer friendly" with their rules.
The trend on the linklists is More pics, better quality pics and less consoles and links to sponsors.....
Just using 3 of the ones I am listed at as examples (I am not ragging on them, but the rest tend to follow the biggies..I love the traffic they send me btw..)
At Richards... for Free sites.... Minimum 20 pics, no more than 3 banners/lnks to sponsors per page, No exit consoles or excessive use of other consoles, No AVS, No poor quality pics, No "images courtesy of" (sponsor provided free sets), No Blind links, No FPAS between the warning and main page.
At Greenguys... Minimum 20 pics, minimum 10 per page. No Popups... (rest of the rules very similar to Richards)
At PK... Minimum 30 pics, No Popups, 1 FPA allowed, No Blind links...
And in my opinion, these 3 are 3 of the more webmaster friendly lists out there these days...
If I could, I would build my sites using nothing but censored, sponsor provided content... I would have a popunder as they came in and I would banish every surfer that did not click through to the sponsor to popup hell... I would have each picture on an html page by itself with at least 3 links to sponsors, I would have an FPA going to each big pic and an FPA coming from each pic... I would CJ each and every surfer out there until their head spins and they click on the sponsor.........
Unfortunately, I would not get listed anywhere, I would not get any really good targetted traffic and I would get less sales than I do now (which would be hard to do...lol)
A very disturbing trend (imo) is the "free hosted galleries" being provided by the sponsors.... These add to the problem of too much free porn out there... I went and checked last night at freehostedgalleries.com and they list over 25,000 galleries that you can put up just by clicking on the button... Hell they even embed the referral codes in the gallery for you...
Another bad trend is the increasing quality of the free content being offered by sponsors... better quality and less restrictions on the use of it....
And last (for now..lol) but not least in contributing to the problem is the lowering of content prices by the content providers... I have spent about $1500.00 on content so far (not a lot of money by any means). A few years ago when I started watching the industry, the amount of content I have at the quality I have would have run me about $10,000.00... For $20.00 nowadays I can buy sets of 100+ pics at paysite quality.... If I am using these for my freesite building and the surfer clicks to the sponsor and sees the same quality of pics he saw for free he is going to end up canceling... No reason to spend his money...which is why I purposely go with the soft stuff, over compress on purpose, etc.... I want the paysite quality to appear much better than my free site quality... Unfortunately, this can cost me listings...
So, while some newbies may be contributing to the problem as CJ stated by putting up "free sites for their chat buddies", many of us are trying to not be part of the problem. Unfortunately, we do not set the rules, we can only follow them. The veterans of the industry are setting the rules and they are unfortunately exacerbating the problem rather than trying to solve it.
just imho of course..... Let the bashing begin.......