What makes a good Sponsor Hosted RSS Feed

[RedCherry]

Originally Posted by T Pat

RedCherry if your only going to have one link going out I would make it go to a gallery, let the surfer get a little hotter before sending them to a tour that might or might not have more photos of the girl that got them to click the link in the first place.
Morphing is using synonyms for key words. They just don't read right "She was wearing chocolate lingerie" just doesn't work for black lingerie

Ok, just did this post after the advice, so something like this to get them more fired up? And should I link with just clicking here, or do you suggest trying to fit some keywords into the link? I wasn't sure how to do that without sounding too sploggy.

And Simon, I know you were talking about sponsor feeds, but since I'm my own sponsor, any help to sell my sites better is always appreciated too.

[RedCherry]

One thing I've noticed on some sponsor feeds, especially ones that give like 6 pics on a post, is I think they give too much away. I think some foreplay or teasing pics would be better, then showing a sample of everything including the cumshot (unless the site is in the cumshot niche I guess).

Is this just because I'm a woman and for me teasing gets me wound up more, or do you guys think the same thing? Seems to me a few teasing pics would get a surfer more likely to click then "well I've seen a sample of all there is to see" set of pics.

[Toby]

Originally Posted by RedCherry

Is this just because I'm a woman and for me teasing gets me wound up more, or do you guys think the same thing?

I can't speak for the other guys, but this guy enjoys the tease.

I agree with you, sponsors these days give away far too much. I mourn the lost art of the tease.

[RedCherry]

Originally Posted by Toby

I can't speak for the other guys, but this guy enjoys the tease.

I agree with you, sponsors these days give away far too much. I mourn the lost art of the tease.

Then this ones for you Toby. I think it is my only softcore tour I've done, because the niche just lends itself to tease. I try to do mostly softcore galleries promoting it too. I used to sell Amateur Pages so well, and now its hard to find any sites that are mostly softcore tease on the tour. Seems they are going into more and more extreme, and that is just sad.

At least do the tease on the blogs sponsors, give the guys/gals a reason to click.

[Useless]

Originally Posted by RedCherry

Is this just because I'm a woman and for me teasing gets me wound up more, or do you guys think the same thing? Seems to me a few teasing pics would get a surfer more likely to click then "well I've seen a sample of all there is to see" set of pics.

Maybe the galleries linked-to from sponsor blog posts convert better because the content is doing a better job than the sponsor's horrific writing skills.

[T Pat]

Originally Posted by Useless Warrior

Maybe the galleries linked-to from sponsor blog posts convert better because the content is doing a better job than the sponsor's horrific writing skills.

That could be
The one thing I am positive of is I get more sales if the surfer is sent to a gallery first and not the tour.
A sponsor that really got it is Extreme John, I've been told that he is still doing the RSS Feeds for Rage Cash, I hope Dee Cash takes notes

[T Pat]

Originally Posted by RedCherry

Ok, just did this post after the advice, so something like this to get them more fired up? And should I link with just clicking here, or do you suggest trying to fit some keywords into the link? I wasn't sure how to do that without sounding too sploggy.

And Simon, I know you were talking about sponsor feeds, but since I'm my own sponsor, any help to sell my sites better is always appreciated too.

I'm not sure on the keywords, Google and I aren't exactly getting along lately, but I really think you will get more sales sending them to a gallery first.
I just looked at http://www.homeofthegirlnextdoor.com/
I really think you will get more bang for your effort if you send them to a gallery from the images rather than just a larger image

[RedCherry]

Originally Posted by T Pat

I just looked at http://www.homeofthegirlnextdoor.com/
I really think you will get more bang for your effort if you send them to a gallery from the images rather than just a larger image

oops, lol. Guess I'll have to work on that too. At least now I don't put tables in, like I was at first, y'all have taught me that. I just figured that was a blind link to link the pics to galleries? Or are the rules different on blogs?

[T Pat]

Originally Posted by RedCherry

oops, lol. Guess I'll have to work on that too. At least now I don't put tables in, like I was at first, y'all have taught me that. I just figured that was a blind link to link the pics to galleries? Or are the rules different on blogs?

The beauty of a blog is there are no rules

[walrus]

Originally Posted by Useless Warrior

Maybe the galleries linked-to from sponsor blog posts convert better because the content is doing a better job than the sponsor's horrific writing skills.

Now take that horrific writing and morph it and tell me that half the posts make no sense and the other half sounds like a babelfish translation.

Originally Posted by T Pat

The beauty of a blog is there are no rules

It's also a curse.

While I think that some LL owners push the blind link thing to the far extreme, bloggers and especially sponsor feeds have taken it even farther the other direction. I can now see why there are LL owners who are blind link nazi's.

Now if it's your blog it's your site and you can do whatever you want as that affects no one but you. But with sponsor feeds, and what is kind of what this post is about, to get maximum benefit from them there needs to be guidelines set in place.

[RedCherry]

Originally Posted by walrus

Now if it's your blog it's your site and you can do whatever you want as that affects no one but you. But with sponsor feeds, and what is kind of what this post is about, to get maximum benefit from them there needs to be guidelines set in place.

Even though its my blog, it is still good to learn what you think are the best way to do things, and convert the best, because it will help my sales too. And since you pull my posts in your blog, I also want to make sure it follows the generally accepted rules too.

And its a learning experience, by putting up some links to my blog, I got some great feedback, although I didn't mean to hijack the thread and take it away from sponsor feeds though.

[walrus]

Originally Posted by RedCherry

Even though its my blog, it is still good to learn what you think are the best way to do things, and convert the best, because it will help my sales too. And since you pull my posts in your blog, I also want to make sure it follows the generally accepted rules too.

And its a learning experience, by putting up some links to my blog, I got some great feedback, although I didn't mean to hijack the thread and take it away from sponsor feeds though.

Sorry, my comments weren't directed anyway near you, or any specific blogger. If you took it that way you do have my sincere apology.

There are professional bloggers and I consider everyone who posts in this forum to be one, as we are all learning and searching for more knowledge to improve our craft. No rules is a good thing because it provides us the freedom to be creative and try different things and to share those findings with our fellow bloggers.

Then there are the others. The ones who really wonder around clueless which is why I think its also a curse that there are no quality guidelines set in place.

If this thread were to set a standard of some type for all bloggers, whether a sponsor or not, then that would be a great outcome.

But other than PapaGMP, I have my doubts any sponsor will even notice this thread.