New with Free Sites... Please Review and Critique?
 

Hi everybody, Im just getting back into the business, I have messed with free sites before years ago... alot has changed... I wonder if you all could look over my first free site in years and tell me what you all think. Thank you very much.

http://www.freesexlynx.com/freesites...ome/index.html

It took me 4 hours to get this thing up and running. Oddly, about 2 hours of it was processing the images with GIMP. I am using Ubuntu Linux. Does anybody know of some good batch image processing software that is similar to Thumbs Plus which is written for Linux?

Thanks everybody and many sales to all of you!!

dicedealer
webmaster@freesexlynx.com

Mr. Stiff is a blind link, also thumbs would look better if you cropped them to make the page fit, otherwise looks fine. It would benefit you you lead you traffic and prevent links back to the beginning. I would just list the URL of the 2257 under the 2257 text for copy and paste only, this will prevent customers from clicking on it and leaking traffic.

unfortunately I process all images from a windows machine, only host on linux. I use IRFANVIEW to batch convert and rename: http://www.irfanview.com/

and

ImageCropper to resize and crop: http://www.darkwood.demon.co.uk/PC/crop.htm

Use gimp to create banners, logos, fancy text, things of that nature

Woo Hoo ... Listed on GreenGuy and Yobt
 

Thanks for the response and answers... those programs you listed, they are Linux programs? As far as 2257 info... good idea... hadnt thought of that... you said that my thumbs could be done better... could you explain please?

dicedealer

I use windows programs, those are the URLS above, could possibly use them with WINE on linux systems, not sure though..

Take a look at my last page, notice the thumbs are only sniplets of the full images not whole image, also all thumbs are the same size to make the page fit nice.

example: http://btuz.com/ms/blowjobbrittney/m0/index.html

Warning Page:
You can have one more outgoing links to your sponsors.
I usually put an unlinked 2257 on the warning page, just to cover banners and such.

Main Page:
You can have two more links to your sponsor or your hub or whatever.
In your text: eachother should be two words ;)

In the galleries:
Again, you can have 3 outgoing links from each gallery.
You don't need 16 pics on a gallery. 12 is plenty.

Other than that, all I can think of is that several LL owners have mentioned that the lesbian category is rather crowded, and I know this is a popular sponsor in the niche, so I hope it won't be oversaturated.

Good luck and welcome back :)

Go forth and apt-get install imagemagick. Then when you want to make thumbs out of a folder of jpegs:

That'll stick thumbs in a subdirectory called thumbs and makes them 150 pixels wide. If you want wider thumbs (i.e. 200 wide, use 200x instead). If you need thumbs restricted by height, use "-geometry x200" to make thumbs that are 200 pixels high. Doing it this way preserves the thumb aspect ratio.

If you need to crop thumbs to make them all square (or all the same size), you're stuck with Gimp :)

Some link list might decline sites with banners on the index page that contain the word 'ENTER' on it. So maybe youd like to change the banner for another one. My 2 cents

agree, nice catch

MadCat - I like where your head is at with the auto-thumber, The only thing I disagree on is the fact that a site looks much more detailed when you manually crop portions of the image to display, I am working on an online ajax image cropper that allows you to select an area of the image and crops out the selection. shrinking the entire image down to a thumb just doesn't seem to be quite as impressive as an up-close crop.

Thanks everybody
 

The site i asked all your advice on has just been listed at Greenguy and at Yobt so far. The next day i made another freesite at this URL http://freesexlynx.com/freesites/102...mes/index.html ... its basically the same style different colors... Greenguy, Smugremlins and Yobt so far have listed that site as well. I dont know why the first site wasnt listed at SmutGremlins, but I will just move on and try to find more content to make more sites out of. Thank you all so much, I will keep you all informed on how im doing, I really appreciate the warm welcome. You all are alot warmer and kinder than Netpond people were. I also have a TGP (first thing i put up since i came back) http://freesexlynx.com/index.shtml ... I also welcome comments on that site. Talk to you all soon.

dicedealer
webmaster@freesexlynx.com

Wooo Hooo!!
 

Both sites i just mentioned were just listed on Persian Kitty *starts cheering*

In case anybody was interested
 

An update on my new career in the adult webmaster industry =)

my TGP (freesexlynx.com) - I have stopped buying traffic for it and am just going
on recip traffic from my submissions and bookmarkers. I removed my traffic trade
script. The idea here is I want to run this TGP as a non skim TGP. I want
bookmarkers. My traffic has dropped since turning off trades and bought traffic to
about 40-50 uniques per day. When I was trading traffic and buying traffic
however, my productivity was only about 80%. Now with only bookmarkers and
recip traffic, my productivity is at a whopping 1100-1200% I want more of these
surfers that keep clicking things, because i have discovered that they like to click
banners too. I have been maintaining with that tiny amount of traffic about 4-5
banner clicks per day to my sponsors. (some FHG galleries mixed in with the
normal thumbs, a line of "premium" thumbs at the top are all FHG galleries, and a
webcam sponsor) I think that a 10% banner click rate on my traffic seems really
good. So, Im going to start trying to do hardlink trades with other sites. Sound
like a good idea? Please let me know what you all think.


About my freesites - I now have 4 freesites up and running. 2 are listed on
persian kitty. 4 on greenguy and 3 on smutgremlins. Also a small linklist called
Yobt has listed all 4 of my sites.

When I submitted the 5th site to greenguy, I got my first rejection. The reason,
overused template. I knew this would happen sooner or later, I dont really
understand whats wrong with using the same site layout repeatedly, but its not my
call and i want him to keep listing me. So, my question is how much must i
change my site layout? I have looked at alot of other free sites to get ideas, and I
have found that every free site has the same basic layout the differences are only
minor ones... warning on top of or below recips, recip table sometimes looks
different. main page, banner might be between gallery links, might be above,
might be below. gallery pages sometimes 5x3 pics per page, sometimes 4x4 or
4x5 and banner placement is sometimes between pics, or over pics or under pics or all three.
My question: I came into this business the second time around wanting to do
everything VERY clean. so, I only use 1 banner per page. Is changing the
location of my banner on each page enough to get past the "overused template"
reason? There isnt really much i can do to change the design because im doing it
so clean. maybe if i change a location of something on each page, would that be
enough? I have been changing background colors on each site, and that in itself
is not enough.

Please let me know what you all think about my above questions about the TGP
and my tiny freesites network.

Anybody who is reading this post for information about how its going for me, I
have made no sales yet, however, the TGP is at 40-50 uniques per day and
500-600 clicks per day total with 4-5 banner clicks.

The freesites, I am getting about 25-30 banner clicks per day, exact traffic
unknown (not using counters, just keeping an eye on the bandwidth). At this rate
with the free sites, im figuring i should average a sale once every 2-3 weeks. Not
enough, I have alot more work to do =)


dicedealer
webmaster@freesexlynx.com
ICQ# 9100266

here is a list of sites that I have built. Notice I started building with the same templates, and then started to customize each one for the same reason.

http:// btuz.com/cgi-bin/sites.cgi

I broke the link because I didn't want to spam greenguy any more.. the list is generated from a txt file, cgi just builds the table.

Nice software, thanks!