About Censored tours.

what is wrong with dangling a little more incentive to joining?

They work with softcore traffic.

Not every surfer is looking for a gaping asshole filled with a bucket full of vienna sausages.

Knowing what the prize was would have made cracker jack a little less special.

It's not incentive, it pisses surfers off.

Then why not just use convenient photos rather than censor?

Not everyone gives away everything in promo content. If you keep promo censored and or not showing the pink bits, then such a tour works even better.

I don't agree with censoring pics. Why not give the potential customer an accurate representation of what they are going to see upon signing up to your site instead of making them guess? I have promo galleries that I (along with my affiliates) promote on a bunch of free sites and once the surfer clicks onto the thumb, it enlarges to a full sized picture that's close to 1600x1200. And sure, I go through alot of bandwidth but the reason why I do this is because I want to give the surfer a taste of EXACTLY what they are going to see once they sign up with the site. And so far, it has been working out very well for me as signups to the site just continue to stream in on a constant flow all throughout the day.

Don't put the surfer in a position of having to guess what they are going to see upon signing up with your site. As a webmaster, you should SHOW them exactly what they are going to get after they crack open their wallet - but just don't show too much. The whole idea is to make them want more - from what they have already seen. Not from what they think they might see.

And censoring pics on a tour page is just utterly retarded if you ask me. If you were to go to a restaurant to order some food and as you were looking down at the the dish on the menu that you wanted to try - what if 30% of picture was censored? Yeah, I know, this is a silly comparison but is it really that different? As a consumer to any type of product and/or service, you want to know EXACTLY what you are going to get with your hard earned dollars before you hand them over. Nothing at all wrong with that.

I understand that webmasters promote their sites the way they see fit and they do what they think will work for them but all I am saying is for me personally, this has always worked very well for my site and I don't think it would work as well as it does if I had censored pics and shit.

Nice analogy, funny how the nicer the restaurant is the less of a chance that they show pictures of food or have plastic versions of dessert items. They use descriptive text to lure you into buying. So instead of showing you what you are getting they use quality text to tease and tantalize your brain and taste buds. If you needed to know EXACTLY what you were getting before you buy you would demand samples first.

The surfer feels she is only going to show it to him, the surfer feels that signing up gives him a special bond between him the girl.

adult made a ton of money for a long time and the only thing the porn buyer had was the box cover.

I remember back in the day when I used to go to the adult bookstore store. They would have the adult magazines displayed out on the stand and I used to flip through them to see what types of girls, pictures, poses and positions were featured inside of the magazines. I bought quite a few of them based upon the fact that I liked what I saw. Obviously, you cannot just whip out your cock and start jerking off to the pictures right in the middle of the store so if you wanted to do that, you had to buy the magazine. I used to buy magazines from this particular store almost every weekend. I was a recurring customer. Same as a recurring customer to a paysite. They continued making money from me.

Then the day came when the store started shrink wrapping the magazines. Boy, that was a dissapointment. I could no longer look through the magazines in order to find that special one that I wanted to take home - and being that I did not know EXACTLY what was in them, I decided to go elsewhere to purchase my porn. I gave my money to the bookstores that allowed you to look before you buy.

How do you not understand basic salesmanship for someone who's been around as long as you have? Solo sites ESPECIALLY should keep the tours as soft as possible. Or rather a step below what the member would get by PAYING...


Examples:

Type of site / Tour
non nude ----->non nude
topless -------> non nude, small topless thumbs
nude ---------> topless or nude with no spreading, small spread thumbs
hardcore -----> short clips, censored pics, small hardcore thumbs


Censored photos are TOTALLY fine as long as the surfer understands what they will see inside a members area. Tours are meant to SELL the product, not give the surfer more chances to jerk off for free. The purpose of a tour is to describe the content inside while teasing/enticing the surfer to purchase. As a designer you should know ALL of this

agreed

I think some of the non-nude sites have hurt the business by not being clear in the tour that the members don't get to see complete nudity either.... but a tour should be clear that when you join, the girl takes off her panties and does whatever, etc.... it is a good selling point

I had 2 avs sites a long time ago, (i had more) but these two were exactly the same tour, on dif but very similar domains.

Was a standard movie style tour.

The only difference was on the one I censored all the titties and pussy with a "Censored" or "Members Only" in Photoshop.

Guess wish one outperformed?

Not to mention, most of the heavier traffic and well known paysites do not censor their sample tour page images. I mean, take a look at Reality Kings - ATK Exotics - Milf Hunter - Simons Scans - Abby Winters - among many others. And they also have uncensored promo content too. They don't bother with censoring their tour pages content and I am sure that they still do very well.

I guess it just depends on the type of site that you are running. When it comes to a solo girl site, I guess it's not that bad of an idea to censor a LITTLE on the tour pages but for the most part, you want to show the surfer what he is going to get after signing up with the site. If it were me and I operated a one girl solo site, I would still choose to not censor the content though.

When you try to think you know everything about all niches because you know something about one niche you fail.

Tell ya wut dude.

See rthis. It's yours right?

http://www.mollymeadows.com

Now. Let me make a nude version of it.
Send the same amount of traffic to both tours.

My design will win hands down. I will build it so long as ya give me $2.00 per member.
That girl is awesome and sure its a great teaser tour its not bad at all but I am willing to settle a case and point. I am assuming she does nude inside the site?

My invitation sits with anyone that has a none nude solo girl tour that does nude in the members section. Pay me 2 bucks per member during test phase till I am paid out 600 bucks then you can keep the tour once 600 bucks is reached.

That offer does not seem to offer a failure clause if your tour does worse than the censored variety. Which naturally if it converted less than the non nude tour you still would get a per member rate and guess what he would not want to use your tour in the end. So he would get what?

Good question I guess.

I got the answer now after some thought. He gains the knowledge of what works.

If non nude works better for him or not. Pretty good litmus test that I am sure would be useful for his future business decisions.

i do pretty well with the non-nude promo

but if they censor that out, and the surfer joins to see a gaping asshole filled with a bucket full of vienna sausages, they might chargeback!

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I don't like such tours

Damn, why is it all solo girl sites are designed to look an elaborate version of a lightspeed site, or a teen revenue site? I am sooo tired of those canned designs. It seems like they all use the same blue, purple, and pink colors.

Design something that doesn't look like the same old tired crap, and it will convert better period. Pussy, tits, or censored.

I know guys look at the girl, but I look at the presentation. That site looks like one of thousands just like it.

very well said, I think this business (including myself many times) became a business of everyone doing what everyone else does, we really screwed ourselves in a way by making porn so cheap to buy