What does it take to be lucrative in the freesite game nowadays?

[Useless]

Originally Posted by anteyes

Hey Useless Warrior, could you see just submitting freesites as profitable enough after you have about 90 freesites out there (submitting 1 a day for three months)?

I'm not really the one to ask about making money in this industry. You know how they call James Brown the hardest working man in show business? Well, they call me the laziest man in porn.

Would 90 free sites be profitable? Sure. Enough to live on? Not anywhere near it. I can tell you that months after I stopped submitting free sites, I make more off them now than I did while building them. I hardly ever see immediate sales from the burst of traffic given to a newly listed site. My sales almost always trickle in later after a long time of being listed. So, I couldn't tell you if the buyers are coming through link lists for if I've been lucky with the search engines. My earnings work like this: Some weeks my wife is happy with what I make. Other weeks she comes home from work and asks me if I have thought about getting a job.

In my mind, you shouldn't do just one thing. You need to burn your fingers in whatever fires you find. While you build free sites you need be building and tweaking hubs and search engine pages. I've begun to think that it's the shit we do in the background (SE content pages and the such) that will make the money, not those templated sites we build to get listed. They are still a very crucial part of your empire, but very few people make a living with them. Build sites. Link them to your hubs. Link your hubs to content pages within them. Link your hubs to other hubs and other content pages on other domains. Link your content pages to your free sites if they are of the same niche and use the same keywords. On and on and on.

[Bill]

A lot would depend on how much capital you have to get started.

And on what your skill set really was.

The quickest way to actually make a living income is probably still posting gallerys - BUT - this is also one of the quickest ways to lose all your money if you aren't skilled enough.

This involves having enough money to buy a bunch of posting accounts, buy a bunch of content, etc. Presumably one already has the computer, graphic programs, and so on.

The safest way is to try to bootstrap your way into business - but you have to be willing to live on $600 a month for a year.

If you can ally yourself with a sucessful operating webmaster, and get some paying work in the adult webmaster services industry - doing reviews or otherwise working for someone else doing grunt labor - well, that would be a huge help.

I would say picking the right niches and sponsors to promote would be one of the critical success factors.

I could say a lot more, but it's a complicated subject, and so much depends on factors like how much money you have, how much you need, and how desperate you are...

[anteyes]

Does anyone here make a living solely doing freesites?

Useless Warrior...I totally agree, I still make so many sales from freesites over a year old...and tons of sale from hubs as well.