Anybody With A Blog Linking To Free Sites

[ArtWilliams]

Most of the blogs I have seen have a write up and then a pic which links to a gallery or a tour. I am thinking about doing free sites again and I was wondering you use a blog to promote your free sites (rather than use a hub or link list). Is it working for you? Thanks.

[ponygirl]

Originally Posted by artwilliams

Most of the blogs I have seen have a write up and then a pic which links to a gallery or a tour. I am thinking about doing free sites again and I was wondering you use a blog to promote your free sites (rather than use a hub or link list). Is it working for you? Thanks.

well, if something like this is what you mean, then yes

I'm running into the same problem I've had with blogs before, though - updating them regularly. You'd think it would be an easy thing just to add the writeup after building the freesite, but I keep falling behind I actually have some time scheduled this wkend to update it I hope lol.

I haven't promoted it much yet, so I can't really say how well it will work. I will say that one of my concerns is that I promote a variety of niches, so I don't know if straight surfers will be turned off seeing a gay link when they first come to the site, or if it will be like a link list with all niches in there anyway.

I'm basically trying to get SE traffic there, which right now accounts for about half the traffic to it even without me updating it like I should be, so I have high hopes!

[ArtWilliams]

Thanks PonyGirl. Yes, that is what I was thinking.

Originally Posted by ponygirl

well, if something like this is what you mean, then yes

I'm running into the same problem I've had with blogs before, though - updating them regularly. You'd think it would be an easy thing just to add the writeup after building the freesite, but I keep falling behind I actually have some time scheduled this wkend to update it I hope lol.

I haven't promoted it much yet, so I can't really say how well it will work. I will say that one of my concerns is that I promote a variety of niches, so I don't know if straight surfers will be turned off seeing a gay link when they first come to the site, or if it will be like a link list with all niches in there anyway.

I'm basically trying to get SE traffic there, which right now accounts for about half the traffic to it even without me updating it like I should be, so I have high hopes!

[Mr Spock]

Also doing something similar Art , I use the blog as a hub for the freesites/galleries writing keyword rich drivel about each fs/gal

Too early to tell how its going , but I reckon that once it gets PR then the se traffic should pick up.

[walrus]

Personally, I really don't think it's efficient to link from the blog to the freesite since your linking from one sales pitch to another (assuming your linking the index and not your warning)

Mostly I'm lazy and just use a FHG to link to but on galleries I've actually built to go along with my blog post I link directly to the join page. I figure I've hooked them, shown them more of what they were looking for it's time to see if I can get a CC.

[papagmp]

Originally Posted by walrus

Personally, I really don't think it's efficient to link from the blog to the freesite since your linking from one sales pitch to another (assuming your linking the index and not your warning)

Mostly I'm lazy and just use a FHG to link to but on galleries I've actually built to go along with my blog post I link directly to the join page. I figure I've hooked them, shown them more of what they were looking for it's time to see if I can get a CC.

I agree - the last few times I linked to my FS from my blog - I linked directly to the content page(s) of the FS, (like here) not to the index or the main page. I often create "short tours" with just two to four modules for the same reason (like this example)

[Kron]

I use them, every my free sites ended in blog post on same niche blog, or on some I add cople of them in sidebar

[walrus]

I'm going to just throw this out there and perhaps get a little discussion going but I think your doing it backwards.

Why not use the blog as your hub and link to it from your freesites? If your doing multiple niche's setup categories and link into the categories from you freesite. Then you can use one of the galleries you built for your freesite within your post.

This would give your blogs some nice juicey IBL's with rich relevant text surrounding the link

[ArtWilliams]

I think maybe that is what I had in mind. I am thinking of an outbound free site link to my blog AND a write on my blog about my latest free site. That way I get two way traffic.

Originally Posted by walrus

I'm going to just throw this out there and perhaps get a little discussion going but I think your doing it backwards.

Why not use the blog as your hub and link to it from your freesites? If your doing multiple niche's setup categories and link into the categories from you freesite. Then you can use one of the galleries you built for your freesite within your post.

This would give your blogs some nice juicey IBL's with rich relevant text surrounding the link

[LD]

I'v started this:

http://fuckingfreeforall.com/