[ Posted: Saturday, October 21st, 2006 at 8:11 pm ][ Category: Gallery Submission, Marketing Methods, Research. ][ RSS Feed ][ Comment ][ trackback ][ ]
If you are into submitting galleries as part of your marketing efforts, your database of sites to submit to, is your bread and butter.
There are many ways to build your list of sites to submit to. From buying databases, to trading with other webmasters, to hunting them down on your own, your options are many. Personally I prefer to build my own database from scratch.. and for free. My suggestion is to start by getting as many sites as possible on your list, then slowly filter out the ones that are worthless to you.
Basically, throw shit at the wall, see what sticks, clean the wall and repeat.
First of all, you have to realize alot of the sites you submit to, may not list your galleries. They may have a year old backlog, or not allow your sponsor, or just plain think your galleries suck. Generally you should read their submission rules and decide if you will even be able to provide what they like. Check out the galleries that are already listed on their site and see if you will be competitive with the currently approved galleries.
I write this, assuming you already have a gallery submission program (like AdvancedSubmitter) and know how to use it. If not, maybe you should use a bookmark folder in your browser or make an spreadsheet of sites that you can use when it is time to submit. I highly recommend using a submission program though, because it will help you tremendously.
To start looking for sites to submit to, start by hitting your favorite search engine. Search engines have the best quality of traffic, so you will be looking for sites that your target visitor is hitting when he searches for your niche.
Lets say you are targeting the cumshot niche. Here are some tips for building your cumshot submission database:
- inurl:cumshot “submit gallery” -this will show you all sites where the word “cumshot” is contained in the page url and “submit gallery” is on the page.
- intitle:cumshot “submit gallery” -this will show you all sites where the word “cumshot” is contained in the title of the page and “submit gallery” is on the page.
Repeat the above techniques for all the keywords/niches you promote and you will have a nicely targeted submission database for any niche you decide to attack.
Once you start submitting your galleries on a regular basis, you can monitor your traffic to see what sites are listing you, what sites have the most traffic, what sites are responsible for your conversions, etc. After you mine this data, you can delete the poor-performing sites from your submission database.
January 20th, 2007 at 7:28 pm
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