It Pays
to Read the Fine Print

Steve

Sex Story

Don't you just hate having to sign contracts? All that fine print that has to be read, understood and taken into account when you are entering into a business agreement with someone else.

Of course it is quite easy to skip over it, it's fine print so it must be unimportant, we don't need to read it, we can just wing it and everything will be ok.

Sometimes you can wing it and sometimes you fall in a huge heap because the fine print can be very important. This week's site for review is going to be one that falls in a heap because of the fine print on the rules page of most link lists.

You can find the site: Here

The first problem, and one that the webmaster who built the site is aware of, is that it is sitting on a free host. Now if you don't know why that is a problem let me fill you in.

First, the vast majority of link lists will no longer accept submissions from webmasters who want to use free hosts. There are a number of reasons for that and it would take an entire article just to outline those reasons. Just let me say here that while many newbies think that free hosts are the answer to a virgin's prayer you will just have to accept the link lists' rule about free hosts and trust me when I tell you that there is no such thing as a free host and the ultimate cost of using a free host is more than paying cold hard cash for hosting.

Second, free hosts place their own advertising on every page of a site that they host. They choose the best spots for advertising and in the case of this site they have so much advertising that the host has used up all the advertising links that most link lists allow.

Before we go on to the next fine print snag let's stop for a moment to look at the link list recips. On this site they appear on the main page. Now I know that there are many experienced webmasters who believe that the best place for a recip link is on the main page, I have debated the issue with them before and I still cannot see their point of view.

The whole reason for building a site is to get the surfer in to look at your advertising so why put a recip link on a page that is easily accessible to a surfer. When it is on the warning page the surfer sees it briefly and then he has gone into the site and the recips are forgotten. When you place the recips on the main page they are there every time the surfer returns to find the next gallery link.

Most link list owners will tell you that their recips really don't result in much return traffic from the sites that display those recips and that is because those recips usually appear on the warning page. However, when you place those recips on the main page they become a traffic leak that takes surfers away from your sponsors and I can guarantee that I can build a text recip that will suck more traffic from your site than will go on to your sponsor.
So think carefully before you place your link list recips anywhere but the warning page.

Now let's look at the advertising on the main page. There is a big slice of text there that is all a clickable link and that is fine. The webmaster has gone to great lengths to list what the surfer will find in the sponsor's site and that is ok too . but it's boring.
A surfer who has one hand on his mouse and another on his cock does not want to know at this point in your marketing campaign how many pics and how many videos he will see if he follows the link.
He has a throbbing urge and statistics just don't feed that urge. Nor does he need to know the price. Nothing will deflate his willy faster than a dollars sign. Feed his urge with hot text and hints of dripping pussy and moaning babes who are just waiting for him at the other end of that link.

Now let's go back to the fine print. It's not sexy and it's not even interesting but it is what helps us make, or not make, the dollars to stay in this business.
Most link lists have a rule that says that the content on a site must be on the same domain as the site. The webmaster here has been innovative and used something that will work for some people but not for a newbie. The gallery links kick you off to 2 sponsor hosted galleries.

Now if you have your own traffic to feed to a site like this then using hosted galleries is a quick and dirty way to promote a sponsor. If you don't have your own traffic then it won't work because of the fine print in the link lists' rules.
They simply will not list you because the images are not on your server.

The other problem with using hosted galleries is the glaring contrast between the index and warning pages and the two gallery pages. If you want to use hosted galleries then be sure to make the front of the site look like the back of the site.
Continuity is important to keep the surfer settled. Glaring changes can be a distraction and take the surfer away from the path that you are laying out for him to follow.
Reading the fine print and adhering to it can be boring and it can add to the time it takes to build a free site but if you want the traffic that comes from getting listed then you just have to stay focused on the fine print.

Steve

To submit a site for review:

Send an email to Steve and put 'site review' in the subject