Free Sites - A New Approach?

[ecchi]

I don't do free sites any more, but I used to. At the moment I am designing a new (non adult) site, and stuck for ideas I started going through my old free site templates looking for inspiration. Still stuck for ideas I took a coffee break in the hope that coming back to the job refreshed would give me the "oomph" I needed. Didn't work. But while drinking the coffee and thinking about the free sites it crossed my mind that there is a way to improve traffic to them. It may not work, I'm just thinking out loud here. However it may work. So I'm posting my thinks here, throwing it open to discussion, and hopefully a more productive future may evolve from this thread.

Firstly free site design. Basically all you got here is a pile of pictures or videos and some adds. Google will not index this! Put some text on the page:

Welcome to my BBW sex site. I love big beautiful women! Here you will find photos of big women with big tits. These big beautiful women love displaying themselves to you. If, like me, you love BBW porn, then you are going to love these BBW.........

Not just on the index page, but on the warn pages and on the thumbnail gallery pages as well. Make them look good to Google, get traffic right from the source as well as through link lists.

And now here comes the real sacrilege:

Also on the picture pages! Change that rule that states "pictures must not be on HTML pages" to "pictures must be on HTML pages" and add a rule "there must be plenty of good text on all picture pages".

I have bondage sites where I allow someone to write about their bondage lifestyle, and we split the profits. These get more Google traffic today than my free sites used to get from all link lists and search engines combined in the golden days of free sites. And the best part - some of these are years old, and they still get good traffic. How many of the free sites you created and got listed five years ago are still getting the same level of traffic that they got when you first posted them? Photos and videos attract the surfer, but text attracts the search engines. Sure, the text don't sell, it puts the surfer off - but they won't be sent there in the first place if Google don't send them. So put the text below the picture or video (and below your sponsor ads), Google will read it, but most surfers won't bother.

Next the link sites. First there are those rules of "pictures must be on HTML pages" and "there must be plenty of good text on all picture pages". This not only helps the sites you list, it helps you. If Google see the free site as a "good" site it will pay more attention to it's links. And your link back will be worth more!

Now change the way your site lists websites. At the moment you probably have something like:

Teen Sex In Norfolk - Teenage girls enjoy sex in a British holiday resort
Women In Bondage - Naked women tied up, free bondage photos and free bondage videos
Lesbian Sex Stories - Real lesbians enjoying real lesbian sex!

Well change that to:

Teen Sex In Norfolk - A British holiday resort where Teenage girls enjoy teen sex all summer long in a teen orgy of lust where naked teenage girls and teenage boys enjoy uninhibited sex. These horny teens really love the freedom their sex holiday gives them. Away from their parents these teens experiment with the kind of sex they only ever dreamt about at coed college! Click here for Teen Sex In Norfolk[/url]

Women In Bondage - See naked women tied up and helpless. This bondage website gives you free bondage photos as well as free bondage videos. If you like to see helpless women in chains, bound women prisoners, captured women captives, sex in bondage, or any other kind of bondage then you will love this website. Click here for Women In Bondage

This way the link site gets plenty of text, which the search engines will see as content. The only linked stuff will be the "Click Here" bit, so Google is less likely to dismiss the site as a link list.

That way we get the traffic back that the tubes are taking from us!

Well, that was my coffee break thinking. Your thoughts please!

[Fonz]

That BBW text sounds like something I could have written in the past Where did you get it?

On he other hand, I read somewhere that SEO is a bit dead these days. Not sure what the new "trick" is.

[ecchi]

Originally Posted by Fonz

That BBW text sounds like something I could have written in the past Where did you get it?

Free consciousness! Basically I thought BBW, then wrote the first shit that came into my mind!

[JAI-LING]

Some pretty good ideas there, ecchi.

We have been using Yoast SEO on more and more of our blogs. Its been improving our results cause you get immediate feedback on key word saturation, tags, post length and descriptions. etc.

You are right when it comes to more writing is needed on new pages these days.

I am wondering how your ideas might fare on a wp or Ghost blog system. A site you can make pages and pages and inter-connect them with content. They key is keeping people on your site for as long as possible. Keep them entertained and interested.