what else on blog domains?

[walrus]

Originally Posted by Preacher

Very interesting Simon.

Ponygirl, I've built some free-sites with my blog link in a couple of key areas as an experiment to see how well the traffic parsed. I think if you tell them it is a blog up front -- like I did -- you won't get many click throughs. Using Simon's example, my theory is that the tier 2 surfers really just want more tier 2 porn.

Now mind you, I'm speaking kind of out of my ass since I don't dabble in free sites but I think the turn-off for a free site surfer is the actual word blog. It's got this geeky, newsy kind of connotation to it and unless the surfer had been exposed to a porn blog, they may not be thrilled about visiting it. Thats one of the reasons I said above to link to a specific post and not directly to the blogs front page. If your linking to a post that is similar to the freesite, it eases into the transition a bit.

For Ponygirl, I would think that the blog title "One Perverted Chick" and a little teaser like find out why this "niche" turns me on type of thing would be a prefect lead in to one of her posts on the subject. Let them know that they are moving to a blog without actually calling it a blog. Also, I wouldn't think that would be considered blind because they would be getting exactly what they were told was going to be there.

I think I agree with Simon....except I see no problem linking from a post to the "main" page of a freesite where the surfer only has two choices of where to go, to the sponsor or back to the blog

[Simon]

Ponygirl - I should have been more clear on my value scale.
The #3 is the higher value in this case, so I want to convert my arrivals from gallery surfer to free site visitor to blog reader whenever possible.

TGP/MGP >> LL >> BLOG
(but not the other way around)

Walrus - I agree and I do sometimes send blog readers to a free site.
But it has to be a good free site. Otherwise I'd rather grab some pics and/or video clips and write a blog post using them, then encourage the reader right to the tour page.

One thing I do to "lure" more of the right kind of people to a blog that isn't on the root, directly from a warning page that is there, is to add a Feedburner "Buzz Boost" on the warning page with half a dozen excerpts from the blog. I also use their "Headline Animator" buttons on some other sites to entice those who read to drop by. (The button would be linked to the blog url.)