haui Hi Folks, we bring you here tons of tutorials writen by great webmasters and collected them over at Netpond.com View all articles | Contact author

The Neophyte Webmasters' Guide to TRAFFIC

brought to you by Jo Hawke of
AEBN.com

Traffic: 1. [noun] Social or verbal interchange (usually followed by `with')
2. [n] Buying and selling; especially illicit trade 3. [n] Pedestrians or
vehicles or messages coming and going in a particular locality - such as a
website. 4. [n] the people who visit your website site. 5. [n] 'Net Surfers.

TGP / MGP

Free Content - Run Amuck?

Thumbnail Gallery Post (TGP) and Movie Gallery Post (MGP) are the traffic
kings. They were invented just shortly after the invention of 'dirt' and have
been maturing nicely ever since.

The days of the picture-post are gone for the most part. The free sites are
still around, but they take a fairly substantial amount of time to build. AVS
sites (Age Verification or adult age check systems,) are also going the way of
the dinosaur. Once the dust settles, what's left are the TGP's and MGP's.
They're fast and easy to build and have a theme that surfers understand - FREE.

What is a TGP/MGP?

TGP and MGP are very similar and are becoming in some circles rather
interchangeable. TGP's came first with a simple idea of a link site that points
directly to a page full of thumbnails. Think of it as a traditional link site
that instead of pointing to the warning page of a free site - it skips straight
to the content. No full page ad to say 'no thanks' to, no clever text links that
confuse the surfer into, skipping right past the free site gallery - just dead
on into the naked people page.

MGP's are a broadband hybrid of TGP's they have the same layout as their
older brothers but their content is primarily movies. Most TGP's and MGP's are
(depending on your perspective) TGP's with movies or MGP's with thumbs.

The idea is to give the surfer all they want for nothing and with surfers
being the sex starved creeps they are they always seem to be wanting more.

What is TGP/MGP traffic like:

What is TGP/MGP traffic like, you ask? Hmm… Think: United States Depression
era line for government cheese. Kid in a candy store… Crack whore left guarding
the stash… You get the idea. Surfers bombard TGP/MGP sites in a feeding frenzy
and gobble up every new gallery posted. They smack your servers around like a
rag doll wanting all the free porn they can possible inhale.

Intelligent surfers don't ever, Ever -- NEED to pay to get their fix. They
know how to find the good stuff for free. Day in and day out these cheap
bastards scour the sites looking for pictures that remind them of their high
school sweetheart or that nasty old guidance counselor that use to smack them
with a ruler 'till they liked it. Whatever their taste, they will find a belly
full of free content on these sites. These smart surfers are automatically
chunked in the crap-traffic pile because they are the enemy of the member sites.

Free Content makes Money:

As a general rule… (Here comes the killer part that lots of porn webmasters
have figured out over the years…) Teasing the newbie surfers with a little
content and the promise of a lot more has always worked. Originally the idea of
giving them a ton of content then expecting them to buy anything seemed a bit
crazy.

In the beginning only limited tests could be done by any one person or
company to see if this crap-traffic was actually worth the time to get.
Webmasters that have been around for a few years will probably remember the
first time they submitted a gallery to the likes of TheHun.net and paid for the
bandwidth.

Odds are pretty good that if you did a short test back then, you would have
lost money instead of made money. However, running the same test for a month you
was an utterly different story. Most people didn't care much for the idea of
taking it on the chin for weeks at a time not knowing if they would ever make
the money back.

The shocking reality to some is that TGP/MGP make a freaking killing! Sure
the bandwidth numbers are high but these are not the days of paying $9.00 per
gig. Bandwidth is cheap these days so "stupid bandwidth volume" does Not equal
"stupid bandwidth bill".

In the past the guys running the sites would make a nice chunk of change and
avoid the bandwidth headaches because they didn't serve up the graphics. The
gallery listings where spread out across the hundreds of people who submitted
galleries and everyone would have good days and bad days depending on the taste
of the surfers and the content they ran with. Today companies host their own
pre-built galleries attempting to get ALL the traffic or at least a lion's share
of the traffic from these sources - because at the end of the day it makes
money.

Who should use a TGP/MGP:

If you're a porn Webmaster these days then you need to be using TGP/MGP sites
to make money. Run your own or just submit galleries but you got'ta get into the
mix or you are missing the Money Train.

It has never been easier to get involved in the porn industry with hosted
galleries being built by sponsors such as AEBN.com every day. If you can fill
out a submit form, then you can be a porn Webmaster. Good or bad this is what
the industry has become for a great many webmasters. Yes credit card processing
is putting the "Fear of God" into a lot of companies, but when it is all said
and done, there will always be someone you can send your traffic to.

When not to use TGP/MGP:

Use to be, you could shy away from the free content realm of TGP and MGP.
Those days are gone. If your not using these sites - you're Mad! Everyone needs
to use this source of traffic.

Strike it rich:

You don't really need to know how to build a website to make money in porn.
Forget about clever ways of getting surfers to click on a link. Use hosted
galleries and bang away on every submit form you can find. You'll never have a
bandwidth bill that makes you cry in a corner.

Congratulations you can pay that damn student loan off now!

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

By Jo Hawke - AEBN publicity@aebn.net

- AEBN.com, -
http://www.aebn.com- Adult Entertainment Broadcasting Network, is the
original Pay-Per-View provider on the Internet. They were the first content
provider to offer full-length, adult videos in a Pay-Per-Minute format. AEBN has
gathered over 18,000 top-quality videos representing over 800 studios -
literally the largest and broadest selection of adult videos available from one
provider. Plus Free-hosted galleries.